SCHOOL HOWLERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 15

SCHOOL HOWLERS

SOME OF THE NEWEST. THERMS ARE GAS METER MICROBES. “Therms are microbes which enter gas meters and set up rapid consumption.” This is one of the gems of Colin Mcllwaine’s “More Schoolboy Howlers,” published by Simpkin, Marshall, Ltd. • • • The prize “howler” must surely be attribted to the boy who suggests that “the Kodak is the Bible of the Mohammedans.” • • • Here are others:— A fissure is a man who sells fish. « • • Tho dome of St. Paul’s is supported by eight peers, who are unfortunately cracked. * • < The laws of chemical union are like the laws of any other union, pretty strict, and have a lot to do with blacklegs. • » • A blizzard is the inside of a duck. Cereals are films shown at the pictures which last ten weeks. » • • Equinoxes are the inhabitants of Greenland. • • • Rhubarb is a kind of celery gone bloodshot. Acrimony, which is sometimes called holy, is another name for marriage. CLASSIC SAUSAGE. There is a special section devoted to personalities. In this we learn: — Polc’ius was a mythical sausage. • » « Bacchus first fought the Greeks to get drunk. • * • Apollo was the king of table waters.

Hall Caine is the maker of cricket bats.

Shakespeare lived at Windsor with bis merry wive>.