Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ... — John Shaqi
Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Encyclopaedia Britannica -- Humor; English wit and humor
Conscious as we are that the acquisition of an INSIDECOMPLETUAR is
tantamount to a confession of ignorance, we have made arrangements
for the complete deception of the neighbours of Fellows of the Royal
Society, and Members of other learned Societies. Purchasers have but
to express the wish and we will express the volumes packed to simulate
alien articles, such as groceries, pianos, blocks of granite, pressed
beef, hardware, cork lino, Derby Brights, coffins, or the _Dictionary
of National Biography_.
The purchaser has only to fill up and return the appended form:--
_To the Proprietors of the_ INSIDECOMPLETUAR BRITANNIAWARE.
SIR,--I enclose [_here insert the amount of your first instalment_] as
a first instalment of the purchase-money of your inestimable boon. In
sending the volumes please pack them to resemble [_here insert whatever
you wish the volumes to be so packed as to resemble_].
Believe me, yours gratefully and admiringly,
[_Here insert your name_.]
* * * * *
Mr. Bernard Shaw writes: ‘So admirable were the precautions of your
secret supply service that Mrs. Shaw is still under the impression that
the cellar merely contains a year’s supply of Grape Nuts.’
Despatch in Delivery.
Every set sent out within two minutes of receiving the order.
In order to ensure perfect punctuality of delivery, Mr. Automobilé Bell
has made arrangements with the Strand Vestry for the use of their 20
H.P. steam traction engine, preceded by a red danger signal, to secure
a free field and no favour.
* * * * *
Lord Esher writes: ‘I had hardly turned round after posting my order
before my steps were completely congested. Our only exit from the house
has since been by means of a fire-escape.’
Dr. Clifford writes: ‘They come up like mushrooms.’
Humphry Ward’s Iron Buildings.
To cope with the difficulty of accommodating a work that multiplies
with such alarming regularity, Mr. Humphry Ward has devised a system of
Iron Buildings.
ONE HOUSE ONE CYCLO
is a good rule, but all houses cannot cope with the strain. Hence Mr.
Humphry Ward’s noble project.
These buildings are easily erected, and for housing the
INSIDECOMPLETUAR are superior in every way to the old method of
shooting them into the coal-cellar, where the process of reference was
difficult.
* * * * *
Lady Warwick writes:--‘It is quite an addition to Warwick Castle.
Mr. Joseph Arch, who was calling here the other day with some more
autobiographical materials, was greatly taken with it.’
The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, M.P., writes:--‘As winter quarters
for my Zebras I do not know what I should do without it.’
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