Bethel High School - Beacon Yearbook (Bethel, MO)

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WHY TEACHERS GET WRIN'KLES l. A triangle is a circle with three corners to it. 2. The alimentary canal connects Lake Erie with the Hudson River. 3-. The government of a country that is ruled by a king--is a mon- key. 4. A mountain range is a big cook- ing stove used in a hotel. 5. Passion is nine-tenths of the law. 6. Longitude and Latitude are imag- inary lines on the earth which show you which way you are going. 7. A vacuum is an empty place with nothing in it. 8. There was no such man, Hamlet. He lived i.n Denmark. 9. Gold was discovered in California before anyone knew it was there. 10. A miracle is anything that some- one does that can not be done. Professors may be absent-minded, but-- He may forget his rubbers His collar or his vest, But fhang it alll he Won't forget The day to give a test. He may not lmow his number Or who is in his class, But Course the luck! he always knows Who ought to flunk or pass. THE BUTCHERS LOVE Oh, could I but my love re-veal And meat your eyes of blue, And liver in the lights of them In a style beef -fitting you I'm bacon in the heart of love, I'm so sheepish, I cannot stop My heart is yours, so please become My spare-rib or my chop. I never sausage a pretty girl, When this little lamb I spy I'm ready now to steak my life With lard enough to fry. PorkE5Eture I'll be corned all day Until I'm surely hooked. So Weigh me well--clothes, bones and all Or else my muttons cooked. Mr. Maddox to his science class: Now, children, it is the law of gravity that keeps us on earth. Joyce: But how did we stay on before that law was passed? Sue: Anything you can do better than anyone else? Louise: Yes, I can read my own writing. Mary Alice: I've changed my mind. Lorene: Does it work any better? Bob: What time are you expect ing me? Virginia: I'm not expecting youwrl Bob: Then I'll surprise you. Miss Mac Cwearilyl: Billy, do you talk all of the time? Billy Gene: No, Ma'am. Some- times people interrupt me.

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Mr. Ballance: Unsel.f1shness means going without something you need voluntarily. Can y.ou give me an example of that, Junior? junior Smoot: Yessuml Some- times I go without a bath when I need one. KC Rosa Lee on the telephone! I'd loved to go, but I feel I should stay home and help my father with my homework. Marion Smoot: 'Tll bet you were mad when you ran over that skunk. Billy Holderieath: Mad? I was highly incensed. The hotdog never bites or howls When anybody sights it. The hotdog never bites or growls But feeds the hand that bites it. Joe Miles says: Next to a beautiful girl, sleep is the most wonderful thing in the world. I love you more than 335555 I love you more than EEEE I 'P if another's love Could 112 so thoroughly please. Our big 95 of happiness ations cannot telll This . of our first love Casts an un,n spell. English Teacher: Harold give me an illustration of the difference between prose and verse. Harold: There was a lady named Leigh, who waded out up to her ankle. That is prose. If she had waded further out, it would have been verse. She'd never really had a chance Long years had Annie waited But when a camp sprang up close by Oh boy, was animated iAnna matedl. No wonder the little duckling Wears on his face a frown. For he has just discovered His first pair of pants is down. George: What would you do if you were in my shoes? Kenneth Miles: Polish them. Man is like a sausage Fair upon the skin. But you can't tell by the outside How much hog there is within. Nothing ages like laziness. My breakfast lies over the ocean My dinner lies over the sea My tummy lies in such commotion Don't mention my supper to me. Richard S.: 6'Girls were harder to kiss insyour day, weren't they, Grandpa?