Parsons High School - Norseman Yearbook (Parsons, KS)

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Humor SQUASH HIM GENTLY Mary Markham: So you're using bal- loon tires mow? Anita Warden: Yeas, they are easier on the pedestrian. Mrs. Ilicketts tat 1 a. 111.51 Oh Bailey, wake up! I can just feel tl1ore's a mouse in the room! Bailey fdrowsilylr 'VVell, just feel 'there's a oat too, and go to sleep. Stranger: Do you have to see a doc- tor before you get liquor in this town ? Nativet: No, afterward. WEEK-END GUEST Margaret Stough: t'0ne of my ances- tors came over on the Mayflower. Mary Eleanor Dc-Longy: Uh, real- ly? How long is he going to stay? She: And what did father say when you told him you couldn't sleep for thinking of me'?', He: He, ofI'ered me a job night walchlnan in his factory. lst: t'So you met Alice today? 2nd: Yes, I hadn't seen her for ten years. lst: Has she kept her girlish figure?', 2nd: Kept it? Shefs doubled il! Clifford Bellahz Whash ya lookin' for? Cop: We're lookiifg for a drowned man. Clifford: Whash ya want one for? Mark Griggs: Waiter, has the lady at the next table paid her bill? Waiter: Yes sir. Mark: ' Good. Then I can lllillie eyes at her. ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE Millionaire Cto some of his protegesbz I owe all my success to only one thing: pluck, just pluck. Sagacious Questioner: How do you find the right people to pluck? Frances Campbell: I have only a minute to spare. Betty ltiszzerz Good, Tell met all you know. lst l3urglar's Wife: 'Wot's yer little laid goin' to be when he grows up? 2nd Burglar's Wife: Guess he's goin' to follow in the fingerprints of his old man. NEW STYLE LULLABYE Hush-a-by, baby preftly one sleep, Daddy's gone golfing to win the club sweep. lf he plays nicely-I hope that the will- Mother will show llllll her dI'CSS-lllllk- er's bill. Hush-a-baby, safe in your cot, Daddy's come home and his tempel' is hot. Cuddle down closer, baby of mine, Daddy went round in a hundred and nine. Fred Mundis: NVhat is tl1e greatest waterpower known to man? Mr. Allen Piatt: HXNOIIIZIIMS tears. A BOOMERANG Lodgor: 'This steak is like a cold day i11 June-very rare. Landlady: And your bill is like March weather-very unsettled. Senior: 'Did you ever take chloro- form? Sophomore: No, who teaches it? NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR Page. Sixty-one 99

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Humor DEGREES OF LEARNING Freshman: Huh? Sophomore: What? Junior: I didn't understand the question. Sftnior: 'I failed to comprehend the nature of the inquiry. Fenirrs were born for great things, Juniors were born for small. But sophomores-it's not recorded Why they were born at all. Sophomore: At which end of the car do I get off? Motorman: It doesn't make much differenceg I guess both ends stop. Who wrote Hamlet? inquired Sup- erintendent Hughes while examining thet school. Please sir, I didn't. said a very frightened lad. Later the superintendent was telling it to one of the members of the school board. Haw! Haw! he said. I bet the little rascal did it all the time. Daughter: Mother, why l1asn't papa any hair? Mother: Because he thinks so much, dear. Daughter: VVhy have you so much. Mother? Mother: Hun along and play now. STRANGE BUT TRUE What has four legs but only one foot? A bed. Some of these jokes are dry, And some. are pretty rareg But, if one happens to be about you, Just laugh and take your share. CALL A MECHANIC! A tourist was enjoying the wonders of California as pointed out by a na- tive. What beautiful grapefruit! he said, as they passoil through a grove of cit- rus trees. 'Oh, these lemons are a bit small, owinlg to a cznrparatively bad season, explained the Californian. And what are those enormous blos- soms? asked the tourist. Just a patch of dandelionsf' said the Californian. Presently they reached the Sacra- mento River, Al1,', said the tourist, grasping the idea. Somehody's radiator is leaking. When is a joke not a joke? Nine times out of ten. BOW! WOW! I've get to design a hot dog stand. What would you suggest as material? A rustic affair of dogwood covered with bark. If some of these jokes you don't under- stand, .Iust road them and be content, For the joke editor who accepted this brand, Ins in the same predicament. PHYSIOLOGY I've studied the body over, I got a hundred in my quizzg But still I confess I'm ignorant As to where the trombone is. First: How do you feel? Second: I just ate a bowl of oxtail soup and feel bully. First: Huh, I just ate some hash and feel like everything. PARSONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Page Sixty-two

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Humor 500 TOO MANY Did you like the cigar I gave you? Ifor 500 coupons of that brand you get a banjoft ' lf I smoked 500 of those cigars, I'd want a harp. Carl Albertson: Oh, Mal C'mere, quick! Mrs. Albertson: XVhat is it, Carl? Carl: Le-ok, Johnny ate all the rai- sins oll' that sticky brown paper. Miss XVells: Give me a sentence with the word vicious in it. Paul Rrenneeke: Ye Gods and little vicious! livery body helps, quoth the un- derlaker when asked about business cenditions. ACCOUNTS FOR HER ICY TONE Inez took her aunt out riding. Though wintry was the breeze. Sho put her in the rumble seat, To wateh her anti-freeze, PROPERLY CLAD 'tHave you ever appeared as a wil- ness before? Yes, your honor. as In what suit was it'?', My blue sergef' as Is your wife economical? 'Sonu-times. She made out with 30 candles on her 38th birthday. It's just the same old line, said the washwoman as she hung up the clothes. Don't laugh al the editor's jokes- you may be old yourself some day. SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY I!illy's mother looked at him accus- ingly: What have you done. with all your money, son? she asked. Your lillle bank is empty. Well, Mother, answered they boy, 'yesterday was a rainy day, so I spent it MINOR REPAIRS Hello, Pete! said Zoe. Is that the ear your dad gave you last Christmas 'V' All but the body and three wheels! Dad, today I was the only boy in the class who could answer teacher's question. Good! What was the question? Who broke the classroom window. Teacher tduring history lessonlz 'What are the races that have domin- ated England since the invasiont ot' the Romans? Small Boy: The Derby and the Grand National. lst: I think there is company down stairs. 2nd: YVhy'? lst: I just heard mama laugh at ont-, of papa's jokes. DIETARY EXPERIMENT Maurice Thomas: Mrs, Fordemwalt, if the baby was to eat tadpoles, would it give him a big bass voice like a frog? Mrs. Fordemwaltz Good gracious, no! The-y'd kill himf' Maurice: 'Well, they didn't. Miss Taylor: XVhat were Webster's last words?,' Everett Baity: Zymotic, zymurgy, ZYIIIUITLU PARSONS SENIOR IIIGH SCHOOL P366 Sixty,