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Show Joke That's Too Obscure for Him. "I'm getting old, and my head isn't working just right," confessed the Old Codger. "Here, in the paper, is a joke copied from Life a dainty, glistening glis-tening bit of humor warranted not to soil the most delicate fabric and to save my soul I can't see the point. It is supposed to be a conversation between be-tween two week-end guests. One Bays: 'Would you ask our hostess to lend me a motor?' And the other replies: re-plies: 'Good heavens, no!" just like that 'Good heavens, no! I'd as soon ask her for a piece of string!' Now, I know th'.i is funny; it must be, b'cuz it's from Life. But, although I have read it forwards and backwards, cloBe to and at arm's length, burhung if I can see what the nub is. 43eyond doubt, I am getting old and senile, and should now be taken out in the woods and shot." Kansas City Star. |