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# "The Song of the Fish" and "The Crazy Senator" **"The Song of the Fish"** is a humorous comic strip about golfers cursing in Madagascar and the Doodab Mountains. It's a nonsensical adventure story with no apparent political content—simply absurdist humor typical of Judge's entertainment sections. **"The Crazy Senator"** satirizes an actual senator confined to an asylum who frequently escapes and disrupts Senate proceedings. The story mocks both the senator's erratic behavior and the Senate's inability to manage him, presenting his escapes as ongoing public embarrassment. The comparison joke about Darwin and Mayor Walker's beards suggests this references real contemporary political figures, though specific identities aren't clear from the text alone. The page emphasizes Judge's mix of absurdist comedy and political satire.
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JUDGE bidden zones and offered his seat to elderly ladies in the subwa James Fitzgerald had been married for seventeen years and still loved his wife. He never alluded to himself as “misunder- stood” and enjoyed the daily pre- supper kiss. He answered ques- tionnaires that came in his mail. He paid his bills promptly and signed his letters with a signature that could easily be deciphered. When he went into a business con- ference he actually got results out of it! When he didn’t feel just right he consulted his physician, He walked under — stepladders and lit three cigarettes from one match. He was content with his lot. He spoke glowingly of his neighbors, his relatives, his country. Poor old James Fitzgerald. He never acted really normal, you know. He couldn't seem to adjust himself to modern life and modern habits. They came for him last night and took him away to the om the hill, The one with the barred windows. He's er he is. Poor old James Fitzgerald. —Arruer L. Lippmann big stone house 248 Your Choice Conversation in an asylum: “My Queen Elizabeth!” “Napoleon!” In a parked coupé: “My Sheba!” “Shickie !” Coe wees \ “What is the likeness b’tween Darwin and Mayor Walker?” o” ve both got along beard—except Mayor Walker.” y One ol them 4 Y WE SONG. Hs FUP Ore ss night in Oskaloosa ® pp, 4 SkaiOO: Yun squaw ana papoose ight’ as black 8 Higgins ink. _ washire dishes in a sink, cere ny @rr across the Doodab Mount} é Golfers curse In ia 4)" Madagescar, Curse - Cathay, 8 © And cur mule team strolling homeward Sings Ta-va-ra -boom-de- aye, mas The Crazy Senator | ZA / f Once upon a time there was a azy man and he had been a tor but now he was in an in- sane asylum and lots more people listened to his speeches than they | had in Washington and lots more people clapped and applauded and shouted than in the senate and one day he banged his gavel too hard inst the gate and broke it and escaped and he ran around loose for a long time and nobody could catch him and they even tried lobbying and grafting but they could not cateh him and everyone in the neighborhood scared and said have you seen the loose senator and a bad penny vas always shows up and so the er senator finally got back to his seat in the senate and a bill came up and he turned it down and several (Continued on page 32) comicbooks.com