Judge — March 8, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Explanation for Modern Readers This is a humorous historical mash-up titled "Scrambled History No. 6." The cartoon depicts two historically unrelated figures meeting impossibly: **Lucrezia Borgia** (Italian Renaissance noblewoman, infamous for alleged poisonings) and **Richard the Lion-Hearted** (English king from the Crusades era, centuries earlier). The joke plays on Borgia's legendary reputation for poisoning enemies. She's offering Richard a drink—a darkly comedic visual pun suggesting she's about to poison him using her notorious methods. The satire works by combining historical figures from completely different time periods and regions, creating an absurd scenario that emphasizes Borgia's fearsome reputation even in anachronistic contexts. The series title "Scrambled History" indicates Judge magazine used this format to create intentionally scrambled, humorous historical scenarios for entertainment.