POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FJLAGE Those .German sockets are more flaaaf firework squibs. * * •*■."'- Wife in count: "My husband .sppaks highly of his sergeant-major, -so the sergeantimajor must be a gentleman/ * # * More rthan 150j000 of the Londoners bombed out of their houses \during the heavy raids ane now comfortably • settled in new homes.. * * * A ielescope at the California Institute .of Technology is so powerful t&at it would be. possible to read from San Francisco . a dinner menu in . New. York. *. * . • * INFORMATION. Dear Percy Flage,—Would you please tell me the .correct total in a crib hand of three 7's and -an .ace. —BEGINNER OF CRIB. The total is, 12: six for 15's and six for three 7's. * •k- # *. NO VACATION. The Germans in France refuse "for military reasons" to let Marshal Petaiaa spend holidays at his little estate on the Cote d;' Azure, between Cannes and Juan-les-Pins. Just what that military reason is cannot be guessed. Possibly some hauptmanja.is occupying the villa at the moment; Qr the Marshal, says a .Swiss commentator,, has used up his A book and is .not .entitled to a B. Petain, by the way, stM is not I greatly interested in' Laval. WESTMINSTER CLOCK. Dear Percy Flage,—The following may interest you sufficiently for your column:— « In these days, when the chimes of the famous Westminster clock .are as ! familiar to Australians and 3Je»r Zealanders as they are to Londoners, it is interesting to remember they were originally composed to fit a rhyme, which you may or may not happen to 'know: All through this hour, Lord, be my guide, And by Thy power No foot shatH slide.. (Taken from "A Parson in Prison.") « # * COMICS. Some of our fantastic comic strips are finding followers in Germany, if Stockholm's story is true. People in Berlin are putting faith in "-secEet weapons like aeroplanes that will dr.qp "refrigerated liquid air" on London,, and in rocket guns. But have they heard -of .Superman? Let them aim their rocket guns our way, • and we know what will happen. Superman' will catch the rocket just before it lands, iwiiirl .around, and aim it straight back at Berlin. .And what will their Superman do? Gnaw carpets, probably. THE VICTORY PUNCH. Noo Hit! I've taujgi ye mair than yino* (An' aftentimes I've made y.e wince) My "meafaphors I never "mince." A spade's a spade. That's what I've cad it ever since It first was made! Some folks, crammed fu' o' education Will boggle at this designation. They'll offer some cute derivation-r----(For "fame" they'll grovel) An' ca' it in their new translationSome kind o' shovel! • Ye ken Joe Stalin's no the sort Tae hum an' haw an 5 sniff an' snort. Straeht tae the point he goes—in short--* I hae .a "hunch" He'll hand ye soon "The Grand Retort"— "The Victory Punch!" —CROWBAR. «■ " «- *- INTIMATION. Moonshiner ("A Mad World"): We do suffer, too much from moonshine. A.8.: As that part of the General Election is over, you had better forget that gentleman. Mystified: So far as we know/ the censor had nothing to do • with that "mystery." Whoozit: Buying fish these days is a curious business when only such, food is something else. "Extra-special": Not extra-essential, Peter Pan: A lively note which calls for some attention. Thanks. Trier: Your verse begins interestingly, tout after that the dark. G.8.W.: "I am going to seek a great perhaps." One of the last sayings .of Rabelais, the French satirist. Overdone: It would not be possible for you to develop such a scheme without loads of money. X.: Will look into the matter whea we have more time. New Zealand versifiers are busy nowadays.