Judge, 1925-09-05 · page 24 of 36
Judge — September 5, 1925 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several humor pieces satirizing everyday life and social foibles: **"The Victim of Good Intentions"** depicts a ship ("Great Scott") wrecked—a visual pun on the name, suggesting well-meaning but misguided actions lead to disaster. **"Assurance Doubly Sure"** mocks a worker who replaced an ineffective alarm clock with a parrot, reasoning the bird's profanity upon waking would arouse him better than mechanical noise. It satirizes absurd problem-solving. **"Krazy Kracks"** presents a child's malapropism joke—answering a vocabulary prompt with "minnows" instead of "minows" (mishearing "in the nose"). **"Funnybones"** are brief gags about Scottish frugality, a husband's procrastination, and a maid's infidelity. **"Our News Reel"** jokes about Eskimos making hard cider—presumably absurd because of Arctic climate. The page is typical early-20th-century light satirical humor targeting common people's foibles rather than political figures.
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The Victim of Good Intentions—Hi! Hold hard! Channel! Assurance Doubly Sure “Glad to see you getting in on time these mornings, Mr. Slowe,” said the manager. “Yes, sir; I’ve got a parrot now.” “A parrot. What for? I advised you to get an alarm clock.” “I did, sir, but after a few morn- ings I got used to it, and it failed to wake me. So I got a parrot and now when I retire I hang the alarm clock over his cage. It wakes the parrot, and what the bird says would arouse anybody.” —Boston Transcript KRAZY RAC “give a sentence with the word Minnows” “I was in a fight and got a sock on min- nows.” Yom” eg Pa & OUR NEWS REEL Eskimos making hard cider. I'm swimming the A Scotchman is a man who eats salted peanuts on the way to his Sriend’s house for a drink, “Does your husband do anything to improve his deafness?” “No—he has postponed it until the children have finished their piano lessons.” —Jugend (Munich) PID Mistress—I sav; the milkman kiss you this morning. I'll take the milk in myself after this. The Maid—It won't do any good, mum. He promised to kiss nobody except me, —Answers comicbooks.com