STATIC

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 38, 15 March 1940, Page 6

STATIC

YOUNG evacuee from London, in the country for the first time in his life, saw a lark in midair in full song. He watched it for some time, then ran into the house shouting: "Hi, there’s a Sparrow up there. He can’t get up and he can’t get down, and he’s hollering his blinking head off!" * * x f N advertising journal officially denies that a firm + manufacturing depilatories intends to initiate a topical campaign round the caption: Anti-Hair Craft. * % * A DIG at diplomats by W. E. Farbstein: . There are diplomats in Europe Whom I would like to embarrass. | They think that Americans should be glad To die for London or Paris.... But how would these selfsame Europeans Like dying for Boston or New Orleans? é * r * Ovk dumb girl friend may not be so dumb. She says she never drove cars when they had the cranks in the front, but she’s driven plenty with the darn things in the back! * * * > 3 td American on a politician: His campaign was a pleasant one, And worthy here of note; He only kissed the babies who Were old enough to vote. % * * DEDICATED to all cocktail drinkers: Well, just one. But if I do, See I don’t Have more than two, * * * HE ship was berthed at Malta. A gun boomed. " Ah, what’s that?" asked Pat. Came the reply, "Oh, that’s sunset." "Well," said Pat, "the sun do get with a h- of a bang in these parts." * * * Y OU’VE probably been told why a bad potato is like a beehive, but if you haven't, here it is: A bad potato is a spec tata. A spectator is a beholder. A bee holder is a beehive. : > * I never feel the slightest wish To rise at dawn and capture fish. For anglers’ joys matutinal I do not give a hootinal.