At the annual meeting of the National Federation of Fish-fryers the President asked whether it was not possible to make fried fish shops more attractive. It appears that no serious attempt has yet been made to discover a fish that gives off an aroma of violets when fried.
The Directors of the Underground offer a prize of twenty pounds to their most polite employee. We have always felt that the conductor who pushes you off a crowded train might at least raise his hat to you as he moves out of the station.
After considering the Budget very carefully some people are veering round to the theory that we didn’t win the War, but just bought it.
“What’s ’is business?”
“’E’s a taxidermist.”