How about the one about the young feller who took his new date out to a theater or other show, and afterwards one of them suggested a bite to eat? Well, she's "not hungry", but that's fine with him because he "had but fifty cents".

Then at the restaurant she shows a deep-going and far-ranging appetite, a ravenous craving and consumption for anything and everything on the menu. But "I had but fifty cents."

When he can't pay, he gets beaten up and thrown out on his ear.

Dave Oesterreich