IN LIGHTER VEIN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12390, 30 July 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

IN LIGHTER VEIN

DECLINE OF AVRESTLING New aids in. attack were introduced by Don Noland at Sydney recently. He twisted a towel round Vic Christy’s neck and was vigorously tightening it. —He rubbed cigarbutts into Christy’s eyes. Has he ever thought of using a bag egg? Rubbed into an opponent’s nose it causes him to lose his -grip. He may then be harpooned with a shark spear or rendered unconscious with a tomahawk. Another splendid idea is to push a broken bottle into one’s opponent’s costume, or to rub his ear with half a brick. Wrestling, however, is not like that when Peter was a boy. The eye-hold was not then barred, and some pretty play was made with thumb-screws, calvary sabres, red-hot pincers and spurs. ¥ ¥ ¥ “SHORTS-MINDED” “The surfing public is becoming shorts-minded,” says a surf club official. With nothing at all on their minds but, their hairy chests and the expectation of a blister to be achieved some day? * * * JUST MULLET In an inland town in Australia now getting its fish by air.— “What’s this waiter?” “That, sir; cod, sir. Why, sir?” “Tastes more like mullet.” “Yes, sir. It’s the rapid transit through the air, sir. Very damaging, sir. Makes cod taste like mullet.” “Well, what about a bit of snapper?” “Sorry, snapper 'tastes like mullet, too. Something in the altitude.” “Well, what does it make the mullet taste like?” “Mullet, sir. Absolutely unchanged, sir.” “Well, gimme a piece of -mullett.”