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Show At a political meeting the speaker made a jest, and finding that his audience audi-ence had miBsed the point, he said playfully: "I had hoped that you would laugh at that." Then from a remote corner of tell hall a plaintive voice broke the silence: "I laughed, mister." mis-ter." Then everybody did. "German statesmanship," said Senator Sena-tor Smoot recently, "is so transparently transparent-ly crooked that it is laughable. It reminds re-minds me of the German waiter who was ordered to bring a bottle of Me-doc Me-doc to the man he was serving. He brought a bottle, but instead of Me-doc, Me-doc, it was labeled Chambertin. 'But this Is Chambertin,' the guest protested, protest-ed, 'and I ordered Medoc' 'Ach, der stoopit donkey. I distinctly told Fritz to put a Medoc label on dot pottle!" |