Speculum - University of Melbourne
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98 SPECULUM<br />
TOUGHE!<br />
A young medical student about town approached<br />
a news stall counter, behind which<br />
stood a cute young thing, and said: "Do you<br />
keep stationery?"<br />
Replied the cute young thing: "Yes, up to<br />
a certain point—then I go all to pieces."<br />
* * *<br />
Some men believe,<br />
That Eve<br />
Didn't need such a big leaf<br />
As a fig leaf.<br />
* * *<br />
There is some co-operation between wild<br />
creatures; the stork and the wolf usually<br />
work in the same neighborhood.<br />
*<br />
Familiarity may breed contempt, but as<br />
the old maid said, a certain amount <strong>of</strong><br />
familiarity is necessary to breed anything.<br />
A. Wall: "In one man I had two fingers<br />
in his ring."<br />
Mr. Webb: "That would have been an exceptional<br />
experience for both <strong>of</strong> you, I<br />
should imagine."<br />
Nads: "Did she blush when her shoulder<br />
strap broke?"<br />
Trey.: "I didn't notice."<br />
* * *<br />
One psychoanalyst to another: "You feel<br />
fine; how do I feel?"<br />
You hesitate if you should take a wife,<br />
Do as your father did, stay single.<br />
* * *<br />
An old maid is a YES girl who never had<br />
chance to talk.<br />
* * * Birth control—something you wish for on<br />
a ship when you are seasick.<br />
* * *<br />
Mary had a little drink,<br />
It looked as pure as water,<br />
But Oh, the things that Mary did,<br />
She shouldn't really oughter!<br />
Then there was the golfer who used to<br />
keep golf tees in his glovebox to rest<br />
his balls on whilst driving.<br />
* * * * * *<br />
I smoked my first cigarette and kissed my<br />
first woman on the same day. I have never<br />
had time for tobacco since.<br />
—Toscanini.<br />
* * *<br />
National News:<br />
. . . In the Legislative Assembly today,<br />
the leader <strong>of</strong> the State Opposition, Mr. S.,<br />
moved a motion. The Premier, Mr. B.,<br />
said he was amazed at Mr. S's. action!<br />
There was a young man named McLeod,<br />
Was caressing his girl in a crowd,<br />
When a man up in front<br />
Said, "Take your hand <strong>of</strong>f the fence,"<br />
Just like that—right out loud.<br />
Heard about the girl who preferred men<br />
to liquor?<br />
* * *<br />
Jack Legge in biochem lecture:<br />
"People with diabetes are unable to<br />
handle their fats in the manner to<br />
which they are accustomed."<br />
*<br />
Tony Sahhar, Div. II, claims:<br />
"The striate arteries are the most common<br />
site <strong>of</strong> cerebral haemorrhoids!"<br />
Undoubtedly he also thinks the perineal<br />
body is his third eye.<br />
• Frustrated husband — his wife had<br />
gonorrhoea, diarrhoea and pyorrhoea.