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# "Ad Infinitum" & Related Content Analysis **Main Poem ("Ad Infinitum"):** A humorous complaint about home improvement obsession. The speaker has renovated extensively—limousine, garden, roof, porch—yet remains unable to fix a simple broken coffeepot lid. The satire targets middle-class anxiety about maintaining appearances and completing projects; despite elaborate efforts to achieve respectability ("Al shape"), a trivial domestic failure undermines it all. **"What Is the Younger Generation Coming To?":** A cartoon dialogue mocking contemporary Broadway theater. Two characters discuss someone's theatrical success with a "new sex play"—likely referencing the sexually explicit theatrical trends of the Jazz Age, which conservative readers viewed as scandalous. **"Ten Reasons for Avoiding Movie Houses":** A satirical list targeting annoying moviegoers—chatty spectators, children asking questions, women refusing to remove hats—reflecting early cinema's social adjustment period when audience etiquette remained undefined. **Supporting items** include brief jokes about real estate speculation and marriage dissatisfaction, typical Judge magazine filler content mocking contemporary American social anxieties.
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Ad Infinitum ’yE overhauled my limousine, I’ve made the drab adjoining lot Into a lovely garden spot, J’'ve roofed the house with shingles green. The porch I have enclosed, I’ve not Neglected anything, I’ve kept The place in Al shape, except— The lid falls off our coffeepot. Of course, perhaps I have time for The mending, yet I dodge the thing. What if perchance the wife should bring A percolator from the store. . . . I've torn partitions out, and what A slew of papering—and so My mind’s at ease at last, al- though— The lid falls off our coffeepot. I hold it, burn my thumb a lot, Or quite forget, and break a cup When I am in a rush to sup And pour the coffee steaming hot. On our escutcheon ’tis one blot. My good intentions come to nil, T'll fix it some day sure—and still— The lid falls off our coffeepot. George A. Pararicini Nhl tens “Well, Dixmude, my brother sure struck pay dirt.” “How’s that, Vermifuge?” “Oh, he just made a hit with that new sex play of his on Broadway.” \EUNNYBONES The slogan of to-day: If at first } you don't succeed, open a real estate office! ——__} ‘Judge pays $5 for each one printed\_/ t It probably wasn’t an apple at all. Ten Reasons for Avoiding Movie Houses 1. The girl who went out last night and had an unforgetable time. 2. The woman who doesn’t remove her hat until she’s good and settled. 3. The fellow who .has all the in- side technical dope at his finger’s ends, not to mention his tongue’s tip. 4. The lady who never thought that actress was much good-looking. 5. The man who loses his keys under the seat and has the usher come to find them for him. 6. The cynical child who interprets each amorous clinch at the end of the picture and accordingly applauds. 7. The flapper who has her de- cided preferences among the male stars and is ready to tell you why. 8. The lady who isn’t sure whether she locked her door, but would like to stay to the end. 9. The tot who wants to know when the comedy will begin. 10. The picture. Simonetta Ballads of a Husband Man Overboard or Throw Out the Lifeline T= sea of matrimony Is sometimes very rough, So, for the average person, One voyage is enough. R.C. OB. comicbooks.com