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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 October 1939, Page 6

STATIC

CERTAIN radio comedian who writes all his own material wants to go for a cruise on a ship without any stewards. He likes making up his own bunk. * Be Pa A BBC producer in said to have a shirt-front on which are written the autographs of twenty famous stars. Never mind, perhaps they'll come out in the wash. Ea Ea * AS American comedian, having fallen upon hard times, has got himself a job demolishing buildings. He says that it’s the only chance he’s ever had of bringing the house down. * * * D® INITION of the English Radiolympia: Set Fair. * jm * A LOT of German propaganda is recorded first on gramophone records. One-sided? * * * SOME English concert parties had such bad business last season, we hear, that they seriously considered employing a chucker-in! * * * AN American aviator says he is sick and tired of flying. It makes him soar every time he takes off. * * * [t is in America too, that they are broadcasting lullabies at midnight to send people to sleep. A sort of vocal anesthetic! * * * OU’D hardly think it possible, but we found someone the other day who thought a filibuster was a trainer who breaks in female horses! * +. & * AID one tramp to another: ’Ullo, ’Ector, you ain’t ’arf looking listless! Replied the other: Yus, it’s this blinkin’ insomnia come on me again. It keeps waking me up every few days. % * * S OMEBODY complained the other day that his flat. was so small there was only room to eat pressed beef. * ae oe VISITOR to the BBC once asked, "‘ That statue over the front of Broadcasting House — what does it stand for?" "Because." replied an official gently, "it’d look silly lying down." * . * %* dE college boy wired his brother: " Have failed -*in five subjects. Prepare father.’ The brother wired back: "Fathér prepared. Prepare yourself."