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Show Choice Appetite The plane on which an actor was( flying across darkest Africa; crashed in a very heavy jungle. He was the only one of the passengers i or crew able to walk so he started , out for help. He had gone a fewi miles when he was set upon by a band of half -naked black men. i They quickly subdued him, tied j him up and carted him off to their! village. He was brought before the1 chief who shot a string of questions 1 at him. "So you're an actor," the chiefi said. "That's fine. Sit down next to I me. I want to tell you a few ' stories." The stories that the chief told! were risque but they had the actor I holding his sides with laughter. j When the chief finished his joke-telling joke-telling one of his subordinates came over and whispered in his ear. "You know we are going to eat 1 this guy," he said. "Why are you) making him so happy?" i "I have a yen for spiced ham," explained the chief. SHE WAS CHILLED "Hey, Dad, was it a very cold , day when yon married Mama?" "Was it a very cold day when I married your mother? Why do you ask such a question?" "Because every time she talks about it, she shivers." No More Ham Because it was a boom town the road company of "All Baba and the. Forty (count them) Thieves" ' charged . much higher admission prices than they would have ordinarily. ordi-narily. And because the prices weren't posted the customers were; forced to ask the cashier what they were. "Four dollars and forty cents to see a bunch of hams!" snorted one customer to the manager of the show. "Well, All Baba, I've seen you, and if you're representative of the rest of the company, I don't want to see any more." Sufficient Grounds "I can't think of leaving the theater," thea-ter," wailed an actress who had had nothing but bit parts for many years, "I'm married to it." "Well, why don't you sue it for non-support?" suggested her severest sever-est critic. SOMEWHAT CROWDED klt .. i-fV,f "How did you get the black eye?" "From a cough." "A black eye from a cough?" "Yeah, I coughed In a clothes closet." LET THERE BE LIGHT A boss farmer saw a light in the shed. He investigated and found one of his helpers with a lantern. "What do you mean by using up oil when it's so scarce?" "Well," replied the helper, "I'm on my way to see my girl and I've got to go through the woods. I don't want to go through in the dark." "When I went courting my wife I went in the dark," said the farmer. ' "Yeah, but look what you got." |