PASSING MOMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1930, Page 8

PASSING MOMENTS

“Is he going to marry you?” “1 can’t quite make up his mind.” ** * * Joe: How would you like to drop two hundred teet with a parachute? Pete: I’d hate to drop that iar without one. ** * * The writer was desperate, At auy rate, it sounded like it when he said: “I’m going for a walk round the cemetery to look for a plpt.” ■** * * “The next person tvho interrupts the proceedings will be sent home,’ said the judge. “Hurray,” said the prisoner. *** * \ “When I married you I thought you were an angel.” “It’s quite plain you did. You thought I could manage without either clothes or hats.” ** * * New Resident (to butcher’s boy): Could you tell me if there is a sweep in the village? Butcher’s Boy: Yes’m, first and second division clubs only, tickets sixpence each. ** * * First: When my brother plays on his musical instrument, all the men stop work. Second: Indeed, and what instrument does he play? First; Oh, he blows the buzzer at the gas works. ** * * Wife: Did you notice the chinchilla coat on the woman sitting in front of us this morning? Husband: Er—no. Afraid I u r as dozing most of the time. Wife: L T m! A lot of good the service did you. ** * * A man sat in a fashionable coiffeur’s shop with his little daughter while his wife was having a marcel wave put in her hair. Stroking her father’s gleaming head, the child suddenly piped: “No waves for you, daddy. You’re all beach.”