Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 4

Oddments

“I’m dancing with this dame and she’s pumping me about business, and how much money I’ve got and so on. So I tell her, ‘Lady, I’m here to dance, not float a loan.’ ” —Bert Briller, in Variety, U.S.A. * * * # « A 4ft bone trawled by a Yarmouth fishing boat was judged by scientists to be the 60,000-year-old femur of a mammoth and not, as at first thought,, a bone of a whale. Still, it was a whale of a bone.—Punch, London. The ’cello Makes a bello Soft and raello And is most easily played by a bow-legged fello. —Neotus and Gaynor Wood. “You see what I mean, don’t you?” asked an irate parent who had just given his son a severe’ “dressing down.” . “Yes. dad. What is boils down to is this: if I do well it is because of heredity; and if I am a failure, it is my own fault.”—Public Opinion, London. * ns « >h * A young woman was delighted to find a lost but talkative budgerigar in her garden. They conversed in her home for several days, with increasing pleasure on her part, until an evening when the bird, apparently tiring of her company, refused to say anything but: “My address is such-and-such,” and compelled the young woman to take him horfie.—Lucio, Manchester Guardian.

~The Seeker