Sunday Post - 15.12.1940, Blaðsíða 3

SUNDAY POST
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by a bomb blast. The next day
he was at work as usual and
got fined 3 shillings in the com-
munity discussion for being
what has come to be known as
a “bomb bore.”
It is not really courage at all.
It is the eternal adaptability of
humanity. The necessity of do-
*ng the job, the necessity of
lawful occasions” overrides
the menace of death from the
skies.
The British are not a race of
suPermen made of concrete
oonchalantly flipping bombs off
their shoulders. They are just
as scared as anybody else
W°uld be. But somehow they
manage to carry on their jobs,
Perhaps by habit .
. ^ut the little man who car-
^les on because he does not
ftow what else to1 do — he is
Perhaps new. Future genera-
tions may say that he is the
British hero, 1940 model.
This week at
the cinema.
Unfortunately it has proved
,absoluteiy impossible to get
any information whatever as to
What films will be shown this
week. The managements of the
tWo cinemas have apparently
n°t yet made up their mind
about this important matter.
et Us hope they will decide on
s°mething.
P. S.
'^e have just now received
a message from Nyja Bio
Jying that “The Kid from
°komo”, starring Pat O’Brien,
ayne Morris and Joan Blon-
eU> Will be shown this week.
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Dr. William Osier, having been L
invited to inspect a famous Lond-
on hospital, was proudly shown
about by several physicians and
surgeons. Finally the charts were
reached, and he looked them ov-
er carefully, observing the system •
of abbreviations: SF for scarlet
fever, TB for tuberculosis, D for
diphtheria, and so on. All diseas-
es seemed to be pretty well und-
er control except one indicated
by the symbol GOK.
“I observe", said the famous
•doctor, “that you have a sweep-
ing epidemic of GOK on your
hands. This is a symbol not in
common use in American medi-
cal circles; just what is GOK?“
“Oh!“ one of his hosts lightly
replied, “when we can’t diag-
nose, God Only Knows”.
Some children from the lower
East Side of New York, on their
first visit to the country, were
watching a terrible hailstorm, and
one small girl expressed her dis-
approval: “God’s getting awful
fresh, throwing down those big
stones! First thing He knows,
He’d hit somebody".
“Yon mustn’t talk like that
about God!“ exclaimed a little
comrade, poking her vigorously.
“Most everybody in our block
likes Him“.
YANK AND SCOT. An Ame-
rican staying in a London hotel
was intro due sd to an Aberdonian,
who asked him: ’’And what coun-
try do you belong tae?“
’’The greatest country in the
world," replied the American.
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’’Man! so dae I,“ replied Sandy,
’’but you dinna speak like a
Scotsman."
IN A LIGHT VEIN. “Can
you let me have a book,
please?” asked the woman of
the library assistant.
“Certainly,” was the reply.
“Do you want something
light?”
“It doesn’t matter a bit,”
said the customer, helpfully.
“I have my car with me.“
ANDY MAC DONALD was
sitting at his fireside weeping
Great sobs shook his lean frame,
when a neighbour, peepinCT
through the window, attracted by
these sounds of woe, addressed
him thus:
“Eh, Andy, mon, what’s ailing
ye?“
“Oh, dear, dear!“ sobbed
Andy. ‘ Donat’ MacPherson’s wife
has died."
„Aweel,“ said the neighbour,
“what o’ that? She’s no relation
o’ yours, Andy, ye ken.“
“I ken she’s no," answered
Andy. "I ken ske’s no; but it just
seems to me that everybody’s
gettin’ a change except me."
CONFIDENCE. The little eva-
cuee lokked round his home ap-
preciatively and talked for a
while to his foster-parents.
’’Well," he said at last, “If
I’d known this was such a nice
place and that you were so
straight, I’d have brought my
watch with me."
Revenge.
During the South African
war, when the country was
under matial law, letters sent
home by British soldiers had
to pass through the hands of a
censor.
A private in a Yorkshire re-
giment had sent four or five
letters home, telling his parents
about the doings of the regi-
ment, and portions had been
obliterated by the censor and
were therefore illegible on
their arrival at the destination.
So at the foot of the next letter
he wrote:
“Please look under the
stamp.”
At the censor’s office the
letter was opened and read as
usual. The officer in charge
spent some time in steaming
the stamp from the envelope
so that he could read the mes-
sage he was certain he would
find there. At last his patience
was rewarded; but his feelings
can be better imagined than
described when he read t he
words:
“Was it hard to get off?”
“I will not permit 30 men to
travel 400 miles merely to agitate
a bag of wind", said President
White of Cornell University, in
1873, when the University of
Michigan challenged Cornell to a
football game to be played at
Cleveland, with 30 men on a
side. '!