A recruiting sergeant stationed in the south of Ireland met Pat and asked him to join the army. The latter refused, whereupon the sergeant asked his reason for refusing.
Aren’t the King and the Kaiser cousins? asked Pat.
Yes, said the recruiting sergeant.
Well, said Pat, begorra I once interfered in a family squabble, and I’m not going to do so again.
Two British soldiers went into a restaurant at Saloniki and asked for Turkey with Greece. The waiter said—
I’m sorry, gentlemen, but I can’t Servia, whereupon the Tommies cried—Fetch the Bosphorus!
When that gentleman arrived and heard the complaint, the manager said—
Well, gentlemen, I don’t want to Russia, but you can not Rumania.