Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1923 - 483 pages |
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Page 27
... Bill turned to the captain and asked him to repeat the problem . The captain started off : ' If a fishing crew caught 500 pounds of cod and― . ' " Wait a moment , ' said Bill , ' is it codfish they caught ? ' " ' Yep , ' said the ...
... Bill turned to the captain and asked him to repeat the problem . The captain started off : ' If a fishing crew caught 500 pounds of cod and― . ' " Wait a moment , ' said Bill , ' is it codfish they caught ? ' " ' Yep , ' said the ...
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... Bill , I now fully realize what people mean when they speak of the sinews of war . " - Howard Morse . ART There was an old sculptor named Phidias , Whose knowledge of Art was invidious . He carved Aphrodite Without any nightie- Which ...
... Bill , I now fully realize what people mean when they speak of the sinews of war . " - Howard Morse . ART There was an old sculptor named Phidias , Whose knowledge of Art was invidious . He carved Aphrodite Without any nightie- Which ...
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... bill , and lifting his voice , and throwing a thirty - two pound bluff , there isn't a gladiator in creation that can give my boy Tommie any kind of a handicap . He's just written for an extra check . " “ And as a proud father you are ...
... bill , and lifting his voice , and throwing a thirty - two pound bluff , there isn't a gladiator in creation that can give my boy Tommie any kind of a handicap . He's just written for an extra check . " “ And as a proud father you are ...
Page 34
... bill from the lawyer as follows : " For literary advice , $ 100 . " He says he paid . " Tried to skin me , that scribbler did ! " " What did he want ? " " Wanted to get out a book jointly , he to write the book and I to write the ...
... bill from the lawyer as follows : " For literary advice , $ 100 . " He says he paid . " Tried to skin me , that scribbler did ! " " What did he want ? " " Wanted to get out a book jointly , he to write the book and I to write the ...
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... bill . Finally Dr. Hillis , becoming alarmed at the inroads the bill might make in his modest stipend , went to the physician and said , " See here , Doctor , I must know how much I owe you . " After some urging , the physician replied ...
... bill . Finally Dr. Hillis , becoming alarmed at the inroads the bill might make in his modest stipend , went to the physician and said , " See here , Doctor , I must know how much I owe you . " After some urging , the physician replied ...
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