The "New Statesman and Nation" recently held a competition for re marks to which no rational reply was possible. We quote:—

What's the average price of an old master?

But 48 hours a week! That's only two days out of seven.

My husband is really not at all interested in sex.

Somehow Stalin seems to have be come much less red now.

Of course we send George to Eton.

No great man is really great, do you think?

My brother says that the only way to win this war is through moral re armament.