The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 6 (October 1, 1927)
Schoolboy Humour
Schoolboy Humour.
Here are some of the best “howlers” recent examination papers have given me, writes a schoolmaster:—
Posters are sheets of paper pasted on blackguards.
Alibi means away when the crime was committed.
Gray wrote “Energy in a Country Churchyard.”
Queue is Latin for two by two.
Raleigh invented potatoes, tobacco, and also the bicycle.
The Old Hundredth is the name of an inn.
A molecule is a girlish boy.
Pompeii was overwhelmed by a great eruption of saliva.
A little goose is called a goblin.
Saul was anointed by Samuel, who poured petrol on his head.
Lystra was where Paul healed a hypocrite.
Habeas Corpus was a phrase used during the great plague of London, and means “Bring out your dead.”
An aristocrat is a man who performs tricks on the stage.
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