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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1934)
< ■* JANUARY 17, 1934 I The crack has been going the rounds about the third-rate geologist who took everything for granite. I * —Y'oodoo | * Then there’s the chorus girl who gets a grand, and glorious feeling every time the millionaire kisses her. * 1 A ! —Owl . , l • . j J ^ “My fiance said he would be the lui^iest man in the world when we were married.” **Hofc about your father?” V 1 ' / —I’uppet Daughter: But, Daddy, why do you object to my l>ecoming engaged ? Is it l>ecause of my youth? Dad<)y: Yes, he’s hopeless! —D<‘g Queer things sometimes get into print because human Ixhng all make mistakes. Now and then a news paper reporter writes copy carelessly, etc. Here are a few pf the “best Inds” in such errors: '‘Touches live wife, man hurled .‘J6 feet.” “Wanter—Saleslady. Must be respectable until after X-nfalJ’ “For Rent—Lovely furnished room in private family with bath on car line.” “Experienced salespeople wanted. Male or female. No others need apply.” “For.sale—A folding l>ed by a lady that shuts up ^ and looks like a piano.” —Sour Owl i When I don’t want a man’s attention and he asks . where I live, I say, “in the dorm.” Splendid! And where do you really live. Miss Fogg? j. , In the dorm, Mr. Jaeger. —The Drexerd * “Say, mister.” said a little fellow to a next door neighbor, “are you the rhan who gave my brother a dog last week ?’’ “Yes." I 19 “Yes, I heard a noise and got up in my nightgown, and there under the bed, I saw a man’3 legs.” “Good heavens! The burglar’s?” ^ “No, my huslxand’s; he had heard the noise, too.” —Columbia Jest»*i* An Englishman was on his first visit hjire. ^Wlile driving along he saw a sign that said: “Go slow; that means you.” . §1 “By jove,” said the Englishman, “how did they ’ now that I was hejre.”“ —New Columns O:\Vhat would be the proper thing to say if, in carving the duck it should skid off the platter and iato your neighbor’s lap? A: Be very courteous. Say, “May I trouble you for that duck?” „ * * i > * —Reserve Red Cat ?• . . * |*I|- _ I f “I don’t like the looks of that hadd<x-k.’’ “Well, madam, if it’s looks you’re after, why dojTt you buv goldfish?” I . L - - . 1 • * 11 ■ * • When they told her that there whs an effort be-. ing made to revive Shakespeare, she said, “Oh, was he at the party, too?” § ^ | \ ■A 'PZZ « I v . m "Well ma says to come and take them back. ‘ Annapolis Log