Contagion
HE influence of ITMA penetrates’ into the most unlikely places. Whom should we find but Professor Tocker, in the broadcast Provincial Letters from Canterbury, perpetrating an unintentional joke at which’ his audience of students roared, and commenting dryly that classical scholars would . doubtless
Tecognise an example of the Japsus linguae. Likewise, during the celebrations of the Otago Boys’ High School, the Hon. F. Jones was not allowed to get away with his slip of the tongue when he referred to the Prime Minister
as the "Rt. Hon. Feter Praser." I wonder whether either of these two speakers ever listens to Tommy Handley? Tommy , gives us in each episode as many examples of this form of abberation of speech as would lend humour to a score of public speeches. Some of the examples are too intricate to follow quickly, and it is not until after the prfogramme that the best bits of it are remembered. There is only one thing wrong with this type of humour-it is contagious. There must by now be many homes where the family regularly wish one another a touching bood-gye.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 10
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185Contagion New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 10
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