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Sent in by Sandy Robb. A MERE SONG Teacher: "What is Hitler's greatest ambition?" Smart Alick: '"Rule Britannia." DENTISTS ADVICE Be good to your teeth. Lest they be false to you. AN R.A.F. LANDING Dora: '"So Lulu fairly threw herself at that young airman's head?" Cora-: "Yes, my dear, and she made a perfect landing." ..; A TIGHT FIT XjMother: "David, ycu musn't put a whole, po'tato in j r our mouth." David: "Why not? It fits." BUSINESS AS USUAL A Scottish firm received this telegram frem a London hotel: — "Your traveller. Jock M'Tosh, died here to-day. What shall we do?" The reply came back:— "Look in his pockets for orders and please forward." GOOD WORK It was Sunday, and Sandy was collecting scrap rubber. "Look here, my man," said a longfaced person, "arc you a church member?" "Naw," Sandy retorted. "Ah've jLncd the Salvagin' Army."
HIS IDEA "What's the idea—only two prunes?" roared the sergeant. "You save the stones twice a week until you get a thousand," said the orderly, "and then yuu know the war has lasted five years all but ten ivecks." TRUTH AT LAST "What's th' quarrel between you nn' Mae about, Sandy?" | "-Awed, he said I was a liar an' I said he was." "Ay. an' its the first time Ah've 'heard cither o' ye tellin' the truth.'' | NEW PROVERB
'"Hit!.or made a biii mistake tafk(inu Russia. He thought his troops had (inly to fiiiht lambs in wolves' but bears in sheepskins have been too imu'h Tor them."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 53, 15 May 1942, Page 6
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254CRAZY CORNER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 53, 15 May 1942, Page 6
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