PASSING SHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 241, 31 December 1927, Page 21

PASSING SHOTS

The good thing about golf is that i keeps you fit. Fit, that is, to play more g° lf . A woman went on a professiona hunger strike, and 20 Scotsmen pro posed to her. Any considerate motorist will give f woman half of the road if he knows which half she wants. Of those who never hurry or worry some are born so; others have obtained posts in Government offices. A man usually gets what he deserves in this world, but he sometimes thinks this is one of the world’s drawbacks. Nearly every cinema actress has long, slender 'fingers. The continual slipping on and off of wedding rings must wear down the fingers in time. Some cinemas claim to have a superior class of patron; but. judging by the chocolate-eaters who always sit near me, audiences are much of a munehness.

Four-cylinder Democracy.—Here is a good joke on Americans. Two New Yorkers visiting London were gazing with outspoken criticism on the plain, unpretentious exterior of the Prime Minister’s official residence in Downing Street. “What a home for a Prime Minister,” one of them exclaimed. “Yes,” said the other, who had caught sight of a small two-seater standing at the kerb, “and look at that car, will you? Why, in li’l ol’ New York a second-hand store clerk would be ashamed to own a flivver like that.” At this moment a well-dressed man emerged from the official residence, entered the car and drove off. “Say, who was that guy?” the last speaker asked a passing policeman. “Mr. A. B. ’Oughton. the Hamerican Hambassador, sir,” answered the bobby politely.

Not Before His Time.—He was an old soldier, who had been run over by a fast-moving motor-car. His accident made an instant operation imperative, and on coming out of the ether the patient noticed that although it was still daylight, all the blinds were drawn. He called the nurse and asked the reason. The nurse studied him in silence for a moment. “Feel all right?” she asked. “Right as rain,” replied the other, j, “But why are the blinds drawn?” j “Well,” said the nurse, “there’s been j a big fire across the road, and we'] thought that if you awoke too soon you ; ] might think the operation had been un- j successful.” .