Believe It Or Not
(Sent in by Jean Drover, Kauri R.D.) An American and an Englishman were arguing about which "country had the largest ships. The American said: “One of our ships is so big that the captain has to go round the decks in a motor-car to give orders to the crew,” The Englishman said: “That’s nothing. Over in England we have a ship so big that the cook has to go down into the soup in a submarirte to s6e if the vegetables are cocked!”
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1939, Page 2
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87Believe It Or Not Northern Advocate, 18 July 1939, Page 2
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