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No 65 Autumn 2000

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Enthusiast (explaining the ‘situation’) ‘Let this ‘ere meat axe be the Russians a comin’ on the east, the carvin’ knife’s the Frenchies along ‘ere, our boys is the mustard pot, and ‘ere’s the Germans – this ‘ere plate o ‘tripe’. [Stan Cross had this joke published in London Punch, 30 September 1914.] [illustration]

Enthusiast (explaining the ‘situation’) ‘Let this ‘ere meat axe be the Russians a comin’ on the east, the carvin’ knife's the Frenchies along ‘ere, our boys is the mustard pot, and ‘ere's the Germans — this ‘ere plate o’ tripe’. [Stan Cross had this joke published in London Punch, 30 September 1914.]

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