THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
Some of the crowd, members of the U.S. Navy among them, which watched the baseball between China and the United States on Sunday.
About to take off a proud owner gets ready to launch his model
plane at Kowloon Tong.
DIZZY CONVERSATION
"What are you looking for?” "Nothing."
"You'll find it in the battle where the whisky was."
WHILE UNDER "Anything else you'd like before we give you chloroform?”
"Yes, doctor. Just give me your bill while I'm under it." ·
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PAILLARD
CABBAGES AND KINGS
OFFICIAL
Anyway, one thing is certain in the civil war. The Spaniards are winning all along the line.
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DEFINITION
Second sight, Henry, is what saves many a man from falling in love at first sight.
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REASON
"Why are twins looked upon as a misfortune?” a correspondent asks. Well, they never come singly.
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"Lend me twopence to phone a friend."
"Here's fourpence. Call all your friends,"
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MADE IN SWITZERLAND
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HELMUT NOCHT
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING
HONG
KONG
CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG
OUCH!
Mary had a little lamb.
She fed it gasoline;
One day it stood too near the fire,
Since then it's not benzine.
BADLY PUT
A man and his wife had enjoyed their previous holiday on a farm so well that they wished to repeat it. The only thing that made them doubtful was that they had been somewhat annoyed by the close pro- ximity of the pigsty to the house.
Finally the man wrote to the far- mer and explained the objectionable feature.
He received the following reply: "We haven't had any pigs on the place since you were here last sum- mer. Be sure to come."
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ABIT ABOUT PIGS
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Sir Stephen Tallents B.B.C. Con- troller of Public Relations, enliven- ed the Marden and District Com- mercial Fruit Show by revealing that American millionaires insist on hams from the left legs of pigs, be- cause pigs use their right legs for scratching themselves?
I have been making 'further in- quiries, and I can now reveal that many pigs, destined for millionaires' tables, have been found practising scratching with both legs.
Hence the well-known American expression, "ham actor'"
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LYRICS FOR LOWBROWS WAGNER
Elsie, get the gramophone out;
there's shrimps and all for tea; Your Uncle Tom. is coming round-
he wants to talk to me;
I like to have some Wagner tunes,
whenever he drops in
That march you know-- from Tannhauser, or a spot of Lohen- grin!
Yes, Wagner, he's the chap for me-
his stuff is good to hear; It's what they play on a sunny day
at the end of Brighton pier; His waves of sound come rolling round they sort of touch the spot-
And "pom-pom-pom," says your
Uncle Tom, "old Wagner knows what's what.”
There's some who want a dreamy air the Indian Love Song touch-- Others are gone on Mendelssohn (though I don't like him much)-- That Butterfly has made me cry-
her song is just sublime- But on one's dwn with a gramo- phone, it's.. Wagner every time! Yes, Wagner, he's the chap for me—
his stuff is good to hear; It's what they play on a sunny day
at the end of Brighton pier; His waves of sound come rolling round they sort of touch the spot-
And "pom-pom-pom," says "your Uncle Tom, "old Wagner knows what's what"
Dogberry in the "New-Chronicle”
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