Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 25, 2 December 1938, Unnumbered Page

Hot Shots

the terrors of the poor, SAID the Indian to the tourist: "1 am Brave Eagle. This is my son, Fighting Hawk, and my grandson, Baffin’ [he pleasures of the mighty are | | | Bomber," G. K. CHESTERTON used to say he once gave up his seat to three ladies in a tram, LATEST wisecrack from Rome? "If you twist the lion’s tail he opens his mouth and shows iris false teeth?" PRAFFIC COP, bawling out an unassuming lady motorist: "Don’t you know what I mea when I hold up my hand?" . She meekly: "T ought to. I have been a schooi teacher ‘for twenty-five years." PHE following message was flashe ed on to the screen of a popular cinema: "A five-pound note has been found in the stalls. Will the owner please form a queue outside the box-office tomorrow night?’ A SUCCESSFUL man is one who makes more than his wife can spend, and a successful women is one who can land such @ man. EPITOR of 4 magazine featuring funny stories and jokes receiv ed a letter accompanying a num per of would-be jokes in which the writer asked: "What will you give me for these?" "Ten yards gtart,’" replied the editor, HIGH HATS, LL New Zealand women should have their pictures taken in the hats they’re now wearing. Coming generations will have little enougr to laugh at. DOROTHY PARKER'S famous epitaph for a _ tombstones: "Heeuse my dust."

HEARD IN COURT. IFE: 1! made a few purs chases at the grocer’s, then | popped into the shop next door and bought my husband a dog’s collar, Witness: | didn’t have to ask him if he was married-I saw him counting money, making two piles, one bigger than the other. Husband: ! went out on urgent business-! had not had a drink all day. SHH. was. the sort of girl who thought a spoon in the car was heaps better. than a fork in the road, ° NE farmer. to another at. the Christchurch Show: "Where's that young chap you had?’-*{ sacked him.’-"I’m not surprised: I taught him all I knew and when he left me to go to you he still knew. nothing." : Nye