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S we are this week paying homage to France, you will naturally find this column full of Gauls of laughter! * * tk FIOR that, we know, we ought to be divided into three parts. Ea * * A COLUMNIST in the Daily Telegraph: An American just returned from Germany told me that the supplies of gin in the Reich are exhausted. At the Hotel Bristol bar in Vienna the barman mixed him an " Axis" cocktail. The ingredients were Russian Vodka and Italian vermouth. "I don’t figure how that is an Axis cocktail," he said. " What does Germany provide?" "Oh," the barman answered with a wink, "Germany provides the ice!" * * % « EAR -!! shoes," requests an advertisement, "and you can always count on your feet." We'd still rather do it on our fingers, though. * * * EMARKS the New Yorker: There is a lively argument over what this European war should be called. Of course, we know what Hitler would like to call it-off! * * * A MAN in the recent floods, we understand unofficially, earned 25 shillings in one day transporting women across a flooded street. He insisted, of course, on the cash-and-carry principle. * , % ACCORDING to a Dutch journalist, "Hitler keeps one eye on Goering and one on Himmler." We've often wondered how a really good squint would go with that moustache! * * * "W HAT is the difference between Germany and India?" Berliners are now whispering to one another in restaurants and cafes. The answer: In India one man fasts for his people. In Germany the people fast for one man. * * "Two competing butchers had shops opposite to each other, and one morning one of them put a notice outside his shop saying, "SAUSAGES, 10d. a lb. To pay more is to be robbed." The other butcher soon replied with a card outside his shop bearing the words, "SAUSAGES, Is. a lb. To pay less is to be poisoned." This was answered by a magnificent announcement reading, "SAUSAGES as supplied to H.M. THE KING." Whereupon the other finally posted a notice outside his shop, "God Save the King."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 40, 29 March 1940, Page 6
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