MYTHICAL SAUSAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 10 (Supplement)

MYTHICAL SAUSAGE.

WELSHERS FROM WALES

SOME MORE "HOWLERS."

Tho schoolboy howler season is in full swing, the latest selection to be added to the world's stock of unconscious humour coming from Mr. A. Terrett, of Dereham, Norfolk, and published in the "University Correspondent," the journal of the University of London Graduates' Association.

Hero are some of the amusing list:—

A wclsher is a native of Wales. The sun never sets on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the east and the sun sets in the west. Finally James the Second gave birth to a son so the people turned him off the throne. The Minister of War is the clergyman who preaches to the soldiers in the barracks. After twice committing suicide Cowper lived till ISOO, when he died a natural death. . , *, i • l < A passive verb is when the subject Is the sufferer, as "I am loved." A blizzard is the inside of a duck. The King wore a scarlet robe trimmed with vermin. . Polonius was a mythical sausage. The masculine of "vixen" is vicar. Henry VIII. was very cruel to Ann Boleyn and ironed her. (The text-book says "be pressed his suit on her.") In the eighteenth century travelling was very romantic; most of the high-roads were only bridal paths. ■ •■ . \. fissure is a man who sells fish. A trade union is a place.to which a workman goes when he gets the sack. The chief duties of an M.P. are to go to sleep when another man is speaking, and force his party into power. A street ia a road that has a very good class of people in it. A connoisseur is a man who stands outside the picture palace. Ambiguity means telling the truth when you don't want to. . A Soviet is a cloth used by. waiters in hotels,