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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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