Show g II If Q Huberts r- I I I 1 QUO tho lUG 0 ISM COPYRIGHT 1978 Contemporary Features After spending three very full weeks in England this I returned bubbling over with things to say about friends across the sea and their beautiful little I can't say it all in one column-or a dozen- and travel pieces can be Pretty dull reading except to the so I won't try to day-by-day account of our Let it suffice to say we acted like We saw all the places we were supposed to We gaped at J bought the We suffered the rainy paid the high exhausted ourselves tramping for miles up and down streets and through acres of stately We stood In line everywhere we and we thought we would never get out of Gatwick Airport on our return but we did with surprising All in all it was an exhausting but fascinating experience and well worth the money and energy it cost I 1 Z m hf S ZoL but for now let me nass nn fJ-w matters 01 lesser for example I had A always thought much of British humor was of a particular unfunny kind to the uninitiated-but I didn't find it Maybe I missed some but usually I was able to bugh at the same things my English companions Here are a couple of chuckles I picked nd watching the telle A little old lady was being shown over a Royal Navy destroyer said the pointing to a brass plate on where the gallant captain 1 not surprised my I nearly slipped on it And Tye of wrote the Sunday Express small son and I attended a Royal He was getting impatient to go home when it was announced over the address that the troops were now assembling to hear Her Majesty's Junior replied rather I know her address Buckingham Palace-and I'm only a little Evidently the British still enjoy a Pun Just as they did in Shakespeare's Of much of their humor is more sophisticated and subtle than the two samples I have bu and Americans laugh at about the same In fact our tastes in most things g are I must sav however tn h. acceptance and TV was shocked at me from the I was I had thought Te circumspect and proper in X By comparison we are But the British are remarkable Despite and courteous and considerate In their dealings with each other and with the often obnoxious foreigners who crowd lives Still evident U the famous stif-upper-lip attitude that has enabled them to survive depressions and now They have great patience and good and I f suppose their to will keep them sane and civilized no matter what adversities befall an and for that we can aU be It is comforting to know arc over willing to welcome 2 whenever we come I hope to return There is still much I want to |