Philadelphia Story 7

[neil]

A JOKE IN A SERIOUS PLACE

Certainly no one would think of reading a dictionary for amusement or
pleasure -- as the Irishman said, he would lose the thread of the story in
the great mass of detail. Nor would one expect to find jokes in such a book,
barring Mark Twain's about the carbuncle. But that learned and otherwise
serious dictionary, the Century, contains at least one laughable entry.
Under the word "question" is the following:
"To pop the question -- see pop."

-- 'That Reminds Me', George W. Jacobs & Co, Philadelphia, October 1905, 128