Judge, 1927-01-15 · page 8 of 36
Judge — January 15, 1927 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from Judge (an American satirical weekly) contains three distinct humor pieces: **Top cartoon**: Shows an ill-tempered commuter ("Grunch") disrupting card players by claiming reserved subway seats. The satire mocks urban commuting irritants and territorial disputes over transit seating. **"Jungle Jargon"**: A whimsical poem using animal puns (emu/emu, swine/swine, otter/ought to, etc.) where jungle animals converse in punning animal-speak. The humor relies entirely on wordplay rather than social commentary. **"Speed King" advertisement**: Features "Sharkey Gravely" declaring automobiles are replacing horses. The accompanying joke mocks servant treatment—wealthy people treat their household help as "family" while being rudely polite to visitors, inverting normal social hierarchy for absurdist effect. **"Questions" section**: A riddle column offering whimsical, nonsensical brain-teasers ("What does a one-legged man do when kicking somebody?"). Overall, this is entertainment-focused humor without significant political content—typical of Judge's lighter fare mixing puns, absurdist jokes, and early automobile-age satire.
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JUDGE Caractysmic Events—lIll-natured commuter Grunch, after fuming Where's my sweetie hiding? Who for years, sits down in one of the four seats “reserved” for the card players cares? who get on farther down the line. Jungle Jargon aa learned to talk the animal tongue, As Mowgli did when he was young; And you shall hear (unless I bungle!) A conve ion from the jungle. “Your doings don’t bees emu, deer,” Dame Tiger told her mate; “I’m sure it swine, unless it’s beer, Ewe turkey pup so late! “You're on a regular jaguar, Your eel from where ewe rat; They otter seal that golf-lynx bar— Some wives woodchuck ewe flat!” “Minks, keep your heron,” Stripes replied, “Or else I'll gopher ewe!” “Your lion, deer,” returned his bride, “T'll cut giraffe in two!” At that he lambed her on the lip But Katydid not quail; She got the mean mutton the hip— Yes, serpent up in jail! M.U. Questions (Book of Knowledge Please Answer) HaT does a one-legged man do when he wants to kick some- body? Which do you prefer, hot lips or cold shoulders? yho said first: “So’s your old Where is he buried? When a man is buried at sea, do the pallbearers have to know how to swim? How would you like to be the ice man? Who wants what? Why? A man coming home late from a business conference trips over the doormat. He finds out later there was no doormat there. Where did he get it? Why do chocolates melt in the pock Why do eclairs sometimes ooze? Ooze fault is that? When prices jump, why don’t they ever hit the bottom? Does softening of the brain cause old guys to become mushy? R. C. O'Brien J! PILCH The SPEED KING THE AUTOMOBILE I5 FAST REPLACING THE HORSES DECLARED. SHARKEY GRAVELY. All aboard for Laugh-Land! Special tour guided by three merry fun- smiths and jokesters! Here we have Exhibit A, the one about the iwo birds who were talking about their household help. Said Cowperthwait, “Yes, Leech, we treat our maid as if she were one of the family.” “Oh, boy!” retorted the other, “‘we don’t dare do that! We're polite to ours!” Now wouldn’t that beat the Dutch! comicbooks.com