Elbow Jolts

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 95, 3 June 1949, Page 5

Elbow Jolts

By “Left-Hand Comer” Telegrams may now be accepted for all points in China, but traffic is subject to indefinite delay, says a notice from the Post Office. Just like letters from Manawahe. xxx If anyone tries to tell us he saw Mr Chapman prancing through the Strand at midnight recently dressed as the Pied Piper and playing a looter he got from Laskey’s, we won’t believe it. It isn’t true. X X X New and tougher power cuts are threatened, probably at the evening dinner hour. We were “going butcher’s” up at Brem’s place the other evening, and some bright lad in his cups remarked, “Doncha worry, ol’ man. ilush do like I do. Get lit up yourself before you go home for dinner. Hie.” % x x Someone suggested the other day we should have a name for the new Rugby ground. “Domain”, he thought, sounded a bit flat. Though \it isn’t original, some matches suggest “Maddison Square Gardens” might be appropriate—or just “Foottrawl Park.” SI x x A shooter from Taneatua Found his bags getting fewer and fewer. His wife said “My dear, I’ve got an idea— To hatch ’em from eggs is the cure!” » x st An overweight lady at dinner Had dressed to look very much thinner. When her corset lace bust, She found she was just A woman whose dinner was winner.