The Anecdote Bin

HERE'S a large batch of unidentified newspaper clippings from Charlie McC, who informs us only that he's from Missouri. (Please, good people, tell us the sources of your material.) Under the circumstances, we'll have to reprint some of Charlie's gems without credit. Samples: "The only thing worse than a reformed drunk is one who hasn't reformed yet.". . ."Dignity is one thing that cannot be preserved in alcohol.". . .Sign in a bar: "If you drink to forget, please pay in advance.". . .And a drunk, on his way home, wandered into a zoo and stood before the hippopotamus cage. "Don't look at me that way, baby," he slobbered. "I can explain everything." (More next month, if we don't sneak back to Capri and sit in the Square sipping lemonade.)