Red Bank High School - Log Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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28 THE ROUND TABLE Mother—“Won’t you need a wrap, Gladys? it seems rather chilly.” Gladys—“That’s all right mother. I’m going out' with Melvin.” Scotch—“Hey, that wasn’t the tooth I wanted pulled.” “Doc” Newman—“That’s all right, Frank, I’m coming to it.” John—“I hear you and your girl had an awful fight.” Cecil—“We did, she told me that I was the whole world to her and I asked her to get off the earth while I rested my knee.” Editor: “Say, Noah sprang this joke in the Ark.” Contrib: “Yeah, but there are only a few of us left who remember if.” Lore: “Where did you get that hat?” B. Braisted: “At the store.” Lore: “How much?” B. Braisted: “I don’t know; Kridel wasn’t looking. Bevo: “I am here to ask for your daughter’s hand.” Mr. Truex: “When were you first struck by her?” Bevo: “We haven’t quarreled yet.” Harry: “A football player out here wants his picture taken.” Stewart: “Full face?” Harry: “No, half back.” Mr. Wolbach: “Has anyone else a question?” Max W.: “Yes, what time is it?” Mildred Tetley: “What did Sitting Bull sit on?” I Was on the street The other day And I saw A girl and She saw me and She dropped her purse il hurried after But I fooled her— I kept the purse. —Punch Bowl. Lew Hawkins: “You probably don't remember me but last year you sent me to the library to get a book—” Miss Robinson: “Yes, yes have you got it?” Miss Stanger: “Parse the word kiss.” Cecil: “This word is a noun but it usually used as a conjunction. It is never declined and more common than proper. It is not very singular in that it is usually used in the plural. It agrees with me.” Bill V. N.: “I’m going to kiss you when I leave.” Ruth V. D.: “Sir! Leave the house at once.” Customer: “Is this for local applica- tion only?” Max: “No, you can use it anywhere you happen to be.” Pat Klatsky: “Bill O’Brien is so dumb he thinks hard-tack is used for laying carpets and curing soft nails.” Harry Mazza; “Hey Bill, how's Wagner’s Ford; does it pick up well?” B. Van Note: “Yeah, three this noon.”

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THE ROUND TABLE 27 Irp—“I’m going to sue my English teacher for libel.” Nip—“What’s the idea? ilrp—“She wrote on my paper, ‘You have bad relatives and antecedents .’’ Anna—“Leon and I have parted forever.” Bessie—“What’s that mean?” Anna—“Oh, I’m not sure, but I hope for a five pound box of candy.” “How is the razor?” asked the barber. “Fine, wouldn’t know I was being shaved,” returned Dub. “Glad you like it,” said the flattered barber. “Feels like 1 was being sand- papered,” finished Dub. Lore—“You certainly can dance.” Lou—“Yes, I love to.” Lore—“Then let’s love.” Mr. Lovett (while explaining an ex- ercise, and scratching his head) : “Is this plain?” Sloss—“No it’s solid.” Copeland—“Going to have dinner anywhere tonight?” Marion (eagerly)—“Why no, not that I know of.” Cope—“Tough luck, you’ll be aw- fully hungry by morning.” Van—“Did you see that girl sneeze?” Derveer—“No, I was looking at her hair.” Ethel—“They say that fellow you were just with, is a mind reader.” Marie—“Impossible. I was just dying for a sundae, all the while I was with him.” Harry Van Note—“Why are you parking?” Brix—“There’s a miss in the car.” Miss Stanger (reading ipoem)— “O’Brien, what verse form is this?” Bill (as usual) “Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z” Miss Stanger—“LJmm, must be a lullaby.” Elsie and Tet were returning from the Strand one evening and were dis- cussing the movie, in anything but a complimentory manner. “You know,” Elsie went on, “II could have done better than that heroine my- self.” “Yes, she was rotten,” agreed Tet. Dietz—“I’d like to try on that suit in the window.” Clerk—“Sorry, but I’m afraid you’ll have to use the dressing room.” There are meters lambic. And meters trochaic. And meters in musical tones. But the meter that’s sweeter. Completer and neater. Is to meet her in the moonlight alone. —Pitt Panthei. Kurtz (in a restaurant)—“Will you have a little shrimp?” Corina—“This is so sudden, Waldo.” Harry—“These girls put up an awful bluff, these days.” Roger—“How’s that?” Harry—“Why, when I started to kiss one the other day, she threatened to call her mother, but when I went right ahead, she only said ‘Oh, Daddy. ”

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THE ROUND TABLE 29 B. O’Brien: “Mr. Wolbach, I think I just skinned thru that exam ’ Mr. Wolbach: “I know you did; I was watching you.’’ Eleanor Burdge: “You seem to have a hard job raising a moustache. Dub.’ Dub Lovett: “Yeah: queer too. Dad has a dandy. E. B.: “Well, maybe you take after your mother.” Bill: “Two’s company you know.” Jim: “Yeah, and three’s a scandal.” (We refer you to Harry Mazza). Garage owner (looking over Russ’s car) : “That’s a pretty good horn you got; let’s jack it up and run a new car under it.” Miss Throckmorton: “Kite, how is it that no matter how quiet it is in this library, as soon as you come in the trouble starts?” J. M. K.: “I don’t know; I guess it’s just a gift.” This sounds like C. V. L. “Why was Dr. Kutter so severely repremanded by the librarian?” “They caught him absentmindedly removing the appendix from a book he was reading.” Raver: “You got a mean gash on your forehead Ted.” Nestler: “Next to nothing, next to nothing.” Miss Stanger: “How would you punctuate this isentence?: T lost my hat in the wind. ” Carol Shroeder: “I’d make a dash after the hat.” Pat (to boss in office) : “Mike’s in the mud up to his ankles.” Boss: “Well, why doesn’t he get out?” Pat: “Shure but he’s in upside down.” This verse is put In this here place To help to fill A little space. Miss Stanger: “There can be no sen- tence without a verb.” John Phillips: “I know one— ‘Thirty days’.” Question: If a boy is a lad and the boy has a step-father, does that make the boy a step-ladder? She: “How do you like my new dress?” He: “It’s ripping! ! She: “Horrors! Call a taxi! ! ” And We Did. Miss Hodgdon (passing out French test papers as the last bell rang) : “Pass out as you get your papers.” Couvy: “What’s the matter with this match? It won’t light.” V. Lancet: “That’s funny. It lit a few minutes ago.” The football from a gym class had gone on the roof. A youngster raced into the English class and yelled— “How do you get on the roof?” Miss Stanger replied—“T don’t know. I never tried.” Stewed-nt (in Latin) : “Troilus, hav- ing lost his arms, fled in all directions.”