Judge, 1926-02-27 · page 12 of 36
Judge — February 27, 1926 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# "Geographically Speaking" – Judge Magazine Satire This page features pun-based humor exploiting place names. Two characters converse using city and country names as homophones for common words—"Hungary" (hungry), "Texas" (take us), "Toulouse" (tell us), "Sienna" (seen a), "Egypt" (ate), "Tours" (tours), "Dover" (dote over), "Congo" (can go), "Cuba" (could be a), etc. The joke relies on wordplay rather than political commentary. It's characteristic of early 20th-century American humor magazines that valued linguistic cleverness. The lower cartoons present separate jokes: one about a woman suing for "breach of promise to divorce" (ironically phrased), and another about a man taking his date to an amusement park where they park beside the road instead—implying romantic activity rather than actual entertainment. The humor is clean, domestic, and focused on romantic/marital situations typical of Judge's era.
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Geographically Speaking “ awa, Sam! I’ve certainly been Hungary to see you— Texas two a long time to get to- gether, don’t it?” “Lisle say so! I was about Tou- louse you entirely; I’ve been Sienna little of the world for several months you know, travel.” “Wallachia know about that! Where been?” “Been everywhere — Pensacola didn’t know what to do, and then inside a week I been sufferin’ with the heat! Andalusia friends back home is no fun, I can tell you with Zealand force. Don’t never let ‘em Russia into it. “Oh, did you Tyre of it? I Haiti stay home, myself.” “Odessa lotta banana oil — I thought it would Rouen me! Every time I spoke to a foreigner, Egypt me out of something. And Rhodes—ter- rible! I thought I'd Tours a bit, but I has a Pyrenees swollen as the devil from workin’ on the car. I've turned it over and Dover in my mind, and I Missouris I can be that travel’s the bunk. Geneva think of the worl: to it? Venice nice weather at sea you forget that travel ain’t all Ceylon —but it ain't. Of course it Alps to have money, but you Congo wrong when you stay at home. I took a Cuba opium in China, took Carib- S Ke ~ = S “SSS ¥ Ce “I'm suing my husband for breach of promise to divorce me.” bean shown all around in Central America, and took this Sparta my tongue off with strange liquor—Nile always say, give me home!” “Maybe you're right, but I've never seen India side of it “ know, my Antilles here on a v think she might take us on a trip if your wife got her in the notion. She could just give her a lotta Bologna, and if you didn’t Babylon about it do you think she’d do that for us? I'm crazy to go.” “Tl say you are. Alaska.” Wayne G. Haisley Sas “Where to?” said Bill Tyte to his “date,” “Congratulations, on your marriage, Jack, but I thought your affair “An amusement park!” she glowed, with Dot was to be platonic.” So he drove out in the country, “Yes, so did I!” And parked beside the road. comicbooks.com