"RUMORS JUST AROUND THE CORNERS” !
(by "charlee” v.s.garcia, ynl, u.s.n,)j
Two middle-age strollers, a blind i
and a deaf, heading hone through the
coconut fields—somewhere in the Orient.;
"Four are good enough” asked the blind\
"Agreed! Since you can’t see, me do \
picking and you do counting!" said the !
deaf.
The picking had begun.
"Wham!" sounded' the third coconut.
"Whammmmmmmo!" another sound onto the;
ground. "That’s it, we had the ’fourtff;
and the last one," yelled the blind!
After a few moments of quietner.3, a
heavy ’whack’ yielded on the blind’s j
back! "You idiot, that was me you
counted the ’fourth* and the last one!"|
cried the furious-looking deaf.
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Once a Flight Yeoman at a Naval Air [
Station somewhere overseas, I dutifully j
answered the office telephone in a
routine manner without identifying my- I
self. The party wishes to speak to I
the Assistant Flight Officer. I. told j
him to if.ez.se hold the line while I ]
dash out and look for the missing j
Lieutenant. j
Off to the. 030*3 (Operations Duty j
Officer! co&k, a few steps from the j
Flight Office, I asked the 000, who
is also bv.s*y waiting for someone to j
answer the phone, if he had seen
Mr. Jenkins, - j
'‘Sc, £f:$ also trying to get hold
o'i hi.-/*.*' was his response. He handed j
me the receiver a»d whs told to ask
hi? v>v;>‘i to sett a aimite or two. §
take j.v, and. see what he wants, |
may w T can. help,’ I
lev. r/tly lU*tenfi ig an:! waiting f or I
nr av*.r;*cr, a y'i/y f .ami 1 i? •■.* voice sound- j
r.d i ''.’bis is Litf'Vitftns.nt Ocmmaiiuer . j
KasVico, the Officer. Mr,
J'onk»v.*i is «;.ot avov.na at the moment, ]
perhaps 7 cam help you, sir.*’*
"Mr. itrurioeV?? Veil, sir, this is j
your flight yvoma,ii on the line.*” , ]
"Oh-h-h-h-h-h??? in an embarrassing !
tone. "I must have dialed the wrong j
number, then.*"_ j
Everything were spick-and-span for
an inspection to be conducted at a —
Navy Exchange headed by an admiral.
But at the last moment one ’wave•
spotted a forgotten dustcloth*lying
on a table. Glancing anxiously*around
and finding no place to hide the cloth,
she hastily thrust it into the front
of her uniform just as the admiral's
party entered the exchange. An hour
later everybody were still chuckling
about the cloth when the admiral's
aide returned to the exchange and
solemnly handed to the same 'wave* a lx
"commendation" signed by the admiral:
"For best possible use of available
storage space."
Just recently, some funny joker told
me, right after I went in to send a
commercial telegram, that- they issue
"Green Stamps" for so much words trans
mitted— the more ycu 3ent, the more
stamps you get. I didn’t ouite get
how many trading "Green Stamps" for a
"Bromis Camera." What really pr.r.^les
me i3t "Green Stamps l „ „ in A da A:???" *
If it is sd; I bet that place will be
crowded-customers sending unnecessary
telegrams- using fictitious address just
so they could trade for a "Brownie
Camera."
m
Upon arrival at Grand Forks Air. Force
Base, an airman was informed by all
hands that the win tern •’tore nnhao-rably
cold and tfcp.t there v'src tlv-mv-wt* hli*
zanis.. with the' wind aojfei&i*.'*; reaching
100 rap!*. Finding; th? >"■ taro vo. •Velieva,
he questioned an o"iice* r»h;/ 5v.*d jived
* through one of the winters
*'Yow can ft hell eve -All y *;t* wnr, ** he
replied. "flat 1 -thin1; vb/.* n tho only
base in the Air Force whew th.-i chap
lain went AWOLJ
Supply Officer: How does .your new
uniform fit?
Recruit: The jacket 1sn1t bad, 3ir,
but the trouser are just a little
loose around the armpits/
A near-sighted porcupine who backed
into a cactus said. "Oh. excuse,ra_h oney»"