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This page collects military jokes from World War I, targeting soldiers and officers. The humor relies on recruits' naïveté about army life: **"Bow Wow"**: A drafted civilian mistakes "pup tents" for government kindness toward enlisted men—the joke being that small, uncomfortable quarters are standard, not a privilege. **"New Table of Weights"**: An American sailor (called a "gob") unfamiliar with the British stone-weight system gives a nonsensical answer using "bricks and boards"—mocking American soldiers' ignorance abroad. **"Pretty Slick"**: An Ozark hillbilly recruit, shocked that soldiers shave daily, admires the captain's smooth face as if he's unusually skilled—the joke being the recruit's backwoods ignorance of basic hygiene. Other pieces joke about food shortages ("Eats and the Prod"), discipline ("Hist!"), and post-war unemployment. The satire targets soldiers as "dumb" country boys and New Yorkers unaccustomed to military standards.

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