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HOSTESS (at party)--"Does your mother allow you to have two pieces of
pie when you are at home, Willie?"
WILLIE (who has asked for a second piece)--"No, ma'am."
"Well, do you think she'd like you to have two pieces here?"
"Oh," confidentially, "she wouldn't care. This isn't her pie!"
"I can't understand this code of ethics."
"What code is that?"
"The one which makes it all right to take a man's last dollar, but a
breach of etiquette to take his last cigaret."
Tom Johnson claims that the oldest joke is the one about the Irish
soldier who saw a shell coming and made a low bow. The shell missed
him and took off the head of the man behind him. "Sure," said Pat, "ye
never knew a man to lose anything by being polite."
EUROPEAN WAR
War is evidently a losing game when it takes a country forty-two years
to pay for what she destroyed in a little more than four.
A dusky doughboy, burdened under tons of medals and miles and miles of
ribbons, service and wound chevrons, stars et al., encountered a
27th Division scrapper in Le Mans a few days prior to the division's
departure for the States.
"Whar yo' all ben scrappin' in dis yar war, boss?" meekly inquired the
colored soldier.
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