It is reported that Lord Fisher was recently traversing The Times with a belt of Biblical sentences when a cross-feed occurred, causing the action to jam.
A silver salver is to be presented to the Royal Automobile Club in token of gratitude by octogenarian villagers of Sussex.
"Experienced Cook-General Wanted; comfortable home; liberal outings; wages £40; policeman handy."—Welsh Paper.
Would it not have been more tactful to say, "Copper in kitchen"?
Disgusted Plutocrat (to partner, who has just missed a fifty-pound putt). "Couldn't you see that slope after I pointed it out to YOU?"