Garfield Junior High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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GLEANER JOKES Here are a few common mistakes made in examinations: Bigamy is when a man tries to serve two masters. The plural of spouse is spice. The law allowing only one wife is called monotony. A buttress is the wife of a butler. He had nothing left to live for but to die. Monastery is a place for monsters. Wind is air in hurry. Shadows are rays of darkness. An equinox is a man who lives near the North Pole. A vacuum is a space where the Pope lives. i i i Jean Grant: I ' d like to devote this drawing to a charitable institution. Miss Collar: Why not give it to an institution for the blind? i i i Daryl Price: All the stores closed the day my uncle died. Bill Madeira: That ' s nothing. All the banks closed for three weeks after my uncle left town. i i i Bob Brownlee: Did you hear about that man who died the other day and left all he had to an orphanage? Richard Chase: No. What did he leave? B. B.: Twelve children. 1 i 1 Good morning, ma ' am, said a charity worker. I ' m collecting for the Inebriate ' s Home and — Housewife: Why, my husband ' s out. But if you can find him you ' re wel- come to him. i 1 i Miss Riley: How would you classify the word tailspin? George Rader: I ' d say it was the last word in aviation. i i i Usher at local theatre: How far down would you like to sit? Virginia Friday: All the way, of course! ■f i i When Mrs. Smith asked what advantage the human voice has over all musical instruments, Bob Lloyd replied: You can take it with you wherever you go. i i i A swimming hole is a body of water completely surrounded by boys. i i i Mrs. Dyson: What is the masculine of laundress? John O ' Driscoll: Chinaman.

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1. and 4. Faculty Win Volley ball against Willard Faculty. 2. Look at that smile! Gorgeous, I calls it! 3. Stub speaks at Dads ' Club meeting. 5. Friends, Romans, Countrymen — See No. 11. 6. Would you like to take a walk? 7. Will you Bea my honey? 8. Armistice Day Program. 9. Chamberlain: ' Will you respect Czeck liberty as I do, Old Cha 10. Hitler: You chust talk through der hat, Herr Chamberlain! 11. See No. 5. Ave Chaesar! Oh what a lotta Gaul you got- 12. Flag raising. Boy and Girl Scouts.

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1. We ' re 9th Graders! 2. Hold that chain still! 3. I can ' t kick well if I don ' t stick out my tongue. 4. Our Publicity Editor practices Linguistics. 5. Our Joke Editor at work, protected by his famous St. Bernards. 6. Some reasons why Garfield boys ' studies have dropped. 7. See No. 2, page 29. Did we say Gorgeous ? 8. No. Nor I neither. 9. A young man contemplating a possible rise in status. 10. Twenty-five yards for unnecessary roughness. 11. We ' re 9th Grade students, too.