No Chestnuts Allowed.
The wives and daughters of those estimable bores who tell the same story at twenty breakfasts, and expect applause each time, would approve of a Men’s Club in Singapore, which has a very original way of dealing with such breezy raconteurs. The club rooms are spacious, and sometimes a very considerable throng is gathered together in the name of tiffin. It’s perfectly in order to tell your latest and wittiest story—but you must be very sure that ■ it’s newer than the morning’s milk, tor, should any member present suspect that he has “heard that one before,” he has only to whistle, and you stop, abashed. If he can finish your story, you have to “shout” for the entire room, no matter how many members are present. As a way of seeing that jests are completely free from whiskers, this could hardly be beaten.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 9, 11 January 1930, Page 2
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