A young lady on whose lap a bug had just lit, exclaimed:

“Oh, look at that funny little bug; what kind of a bug is it?”

Her Escort: “That’s a lady bug.”

Young Lady: “My but you have good eyesight!”

* * *

Oh, Tempore, Oh H——

Wouldn’t Omar Khayam be sore if he was here. He’d change his immortal “Rubiyait” to this:

Beneath a bough, a can of near beer,

And thou—