Judge, 1928-07-07 · page 13 of 36
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# Judge Magazine: "Shop Talk" Page This page consists of office humor about Judge magazine's own staff and departments. The "Shop Talk" section features brief jokes about employees' inventions and mishaps: **Left side**: Dick Walsh invented a pun machine (destroyed by fire—implying its output was so bad burning it was fortunate); Jack Cluett's electric fan invention backfired literally; Gardner Rea is ill with mysterious black spots. **Center**: A rural man discovered by "Judge, Jr." is presented as "the old Judge himself"—a joke about finding an unsophisticated person in the countryside. **Right side**: More staff inventions are credited—a balloon for sound effects, a rhyming machine ("stanza lot of abuse"—a pun). George Jean Nathan, the magazine's drama critic, is noted as being in Europe. **Bottom**: A cartoon captioned "Little Chap" shows a crowded dance where someone asks to dance, wanting to "bump into" fellows. The humor is entirely internal—workplace jokes mocking the magazine's own departments and staff, typical of period office culture satire.
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SHOP Dick Walsh of the Quipping Department has invented a pun chine that turns out 4,000 puns nute. Fortunately it destroyed by fire last week. was Jack Cluctt has developed aa an that will blow : The other -cidentally got in front of it and hasn't been seen since. Gardner Rea (“our Gardner”) is sick in bed. He has black spots before his eyes. We wish you lots JUDGE WHY HERE'S THE OLD JUDGE HIMSELF! This gentleman was discov- ered by Judge, Jr. in the rural districts and after as- suring him that the camera wouldn't “go off” he pro- cured this snapshot. Ye Fd has invent with which to tell an I a joke. It looks like air. The Britisher sits in’ it while you tell him the story. When you come to the point you button and the current tickles him, causing him to 1 machine lishinan an electric cl press TALK Jefferson Hearst Machamer has invented a balloon which will hold thirty-five Awks and. forty Pows. More pots to him! Arthur Lippmann of the Meter Department is now in charge of our new rhyming machine, Art says it stanza lot of abuse. Ha! Ha! That's probably Art on the mechine! George Jean Nathan, our own critic, who is now in Europe making a study of the “foreign spirite” dramatic Tarrie Cuar—May I have this dance with you? There’s a couple of fellows I'd like to bum —Jeper comicbooks.com