STATIC

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 6

STATIC

WORKMAN was walking along Whitehall in London with a roller-blind tucked under his arm, taking it to fix above some official window. At the corner of Downing Street the blind became unrolled, and the workman carefully rolled it up again inch by inch. A Cockney, standing watching the operation with his hands in his pockets, remarked, " Wotcher got there mate? Annuver peace message from ‘Err "Itler?" ES * * EWS REPORT: "Herr Himmler, head of the Gestapo, has set up a small body of 120 handpicked officials to keep an eye on the activities of the Gestapo-which watches the Black Guard, which watches the SS, which watches everything else." Big fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite ’em. * * % N°: ‘grandma, a depth-charge is not a deep-sea diver’s salary! % * * 6¢¥ DON’T mind admitting," stated a man in Court recently, "that I earn my living at crossword puzzles." Evidently a man who believes in calling a spade an agricultural instrument! : * * * A FRENCH general says that the British are famous for their staying power. We’ve all heard the famous line, " We just dropped:in for five minutes -can’t stay a moment longer." * * * A FLY lays thirty million eggs in one summer, the naturalists tell. What a good thing it doesn’t cluck! * * * re egal was recently charged with stealing a ton of metal from a munitions factory. His plea that he did it in a moment of weakness was not allowed. * x * PROFESSOR: What is ordinarily used as a conductor of electricity? Student (all at sea): Why-er-Professor: Wire. Correct! Now tell me what is the unit of electric power? Student: The what, sir? _ Professor: Exactly, the watt. Very good; that will do. * = * "s¢ HARP DECLINE IN FRENCH BIRTH RATE: That, too, is England’s work." This headline and the inexplicable brief comment came from the Berlin paper Zwolf Uhr Blatt