England Twice Beat Germany at Their National Game

1000 Jokes Magazine #44, Fall 1947, p. 48. German football (soccer) player: “We’ve beaten you at your national game!” English player’s response: “That may be. But we’ve beaten you at yours!”

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20210503/282205128750034

Daily Mail, 30 July 1966

We have already twice beaten the Germans at their national game

By Vincent Mulchrone

 

[“If the Germans beat us at our national game today, we can always console ourselves with the fact that we have twice beaten them at theirs.”]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/iron-lady-s-joking-aside-2vd3t79ss

The Times [London], 24 August 2019

THE TIMES DIARY

Iron lady’s joking aside

Jack Blackburn

Ken Clarke has the right attitude to funny but dubious stories. The broadcaster Iain Dale once asked him if it was true that, after England’s exit from the 1990 World Cup, Margaret Thatcher wanted to know why her ministers were glum. “The Germans have beaten us at our national sport,” Clarke supposedly replied.

“Don’t worry about that,” she said. “We’ve beaten them twice this century at theirs.” Clarke was disappointed, saying he had no recollection of this. “But,” he said, “it’s so good, I’m going to adopt it.” […]

Snake Trapped by China Egg -- Marijuana as Gateway Drug (1970) -- Watermelon Seeds Grow in Stomach

There are many tales of snakes that, after entering a hen-house through a small opening and swallowing a china egg by mistake, are unable to exit because of the bulge in their stomach. The following item tells how two such eggs were supposedly used to trap snakes.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/holidays-an-unexpected-occupational-hazard-20220107-p59mjx.html

Sydney Morning Herald, 9 January 2022

Column 8

Holidays an unexpected occupational hazard

[…] “During the holidays my mother, 98 and going strong, reminded us of her father’s way of protecting their hens from snakes,” writes Brendan Lawler of Sherwood. “China eggs, too big to fit through the chicken wire, would be placed just on either side of the wire. The snake would swallow one then the other and, unable to move further, would be awaiting dispatch in the morning.” […]

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=THD19191219-01.2.44&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------

“China Egg Traps Snake,” The Herald Democrat [Leadville, CO], 19 December 1919, p. 6.

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Teen-Age Booby Trap (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, U.S. Department of Justice, 1970). Excerpt from a 32-page comic book asserts that “it is rare indeed to find a user of hard narcotics who did not start out on marijuana.”

https://archive.org/details/Hooked_201607/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater

 

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Bad Tales (written & directed by Damiano D’Innocenzo and Fabio D’Innocenzo, 2020). Original Italian title: Favolacce. Woman in headband: “There’s watermelon too. Don’t eat the seeds, they’ll grow in your belly.”