Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 34, 3 February 1939, Unnumbered Page

Hot Shots

OULD Job have become so | famous if he tried to read @ book while the radio in the next flat was going full bore? "[T’S a great mistake to keep a large sum of money in the house," a New Zealand magistrate remarked the other day. A mistake we’ve never made! "WHY did no one realise that he was in @ trance?"-"Oh, :they thought he was listening to Hb and Zed." QHRISTCHURCH business man just back from overseas says he cannot understand how a Lone doner was able to learn Hungarian in three weeks. Nor can the Hungarians, most likely. ™MHEY were listening to the new super-wireless. "Hasn't it a gorgeous tone?" asked the hostess. "Pardon?" said the elderly guest. "1 said, ‘Lovely tone, isn’t it?’" "Sorry, my dear, I can’t hear a word you are saying. That infernal machine is making such a row." ANSWER to the problem of how to treat reporters is, "Treat them frequently." HE modern home is one in which a switch regulates everything but the children. (HE world’s greatest water power: woman's tears. Most people are wondering if the song "June in January" was prophetic. Written for 1939? QCIENTIST now says no one lives on Mars. Bit late to tell our American cousins that. (QJUEER habit in the south: removing front gates as part of New Year’s Hive celebrations. Some people are still advertising for return of gates. go a new camping device cooks a five-course meal for five in half an hour. We would rather split the difference with a tinopener. (iORRESPONDENTS to Christ church newspapers are getting all worried again about beach girls with bare legs. "Are they smart?" is the main question. "Yes, they do!" say girls. WO amateur radio men were chatting the other night. Believing they were off the air, one said, "Say, fathead, where the -~ -- did you dump that screwe driver?"