Judge, 1930-05-17 · page 9 of 36
Judge — May 17, 1930 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine **Top Section - "Ignored Invitations":** A dentist's letter sarcastically congratulates a patient on avoiding dental care for six months, recommending urgent treatment (wisdom teeth extraction, bridgework replacement) and mentioning a new high-speed drill. The cartoon caption "Such luck—not a cent!" shows a man unable to pay, suggesting the satire targets both patients who neglect appointments and the financial burden of dental work. **Bottom Section - "Ici on Parle American":** This satirizes how foreigners perceive American speech and behavior as bewilderingly vulgar. The exaggerated dialogue includes: baseball slang ("soupbone"), incomprehensible colloquialisms about census-taking, Jazz Age references ("Hot-cha-cha, boop-boop-a-doop"), gangster slang ("take the rap," "the lam"), and affected British affectations ("simply foul my dear"). The joke is that American English—spanning low slang to pretentious mimicry—confuses and appalls educated foreign visitors.
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JUDGE Ignored Invitations y records reveal that it is now Ny six months since [extracted your two molars and filled four rear cavities. It is advisable, as you know, to see your dentist twice a year, But in your case it is particularly impor- tant, sinee it is necessary for me extract two wisdom teeth and to take out much of the bridgework that your former dentist put in. It may inter- est you to know that I have recently installed a new high-specd drill which will enable me to work much more ee = quickly. If you will ‘phone my nurse, PR. Roehl 2 — Miss apbell, she will =— early appointment for you. “Such luck—not a cent!” —Artice L. Livestaxs Ici on Parle American I few reasons why visiting foreigners go crazy “ Arsa Baby. Oh, you Bambin 4 non that ‘ole apple you bi paloc Oboy, oboy! Shoot” him fast sinker with the old soupbone “Waah - v ! D'se regusted. It turally seem relegant. nohow. I can't figure out this senses, not the senses you kin smell, I means what the man says you got to be done to when you is checked and double checked by the Goverment when they counts the propulation.” “Oh you cheese champ! shellacking you're going to ge em ref! Oh baby Just a breeze—just t sucker is just a stumble bum. Tl lay you two yards he dives in the second frame.” “Hot-cha-cha, boop-boop-a-doop. Get hot, shake that thing. My sweeter than sweet I've a feelin’ I'm fallin’ for true blue you. Hot-cha-cha, boop- hoop-a-doop, vo-deo-do.” “Listen Red, you gotta take the rap, see? Cross me now you and it incans a ride, savvy? if, has squealed to the coppers so I've got to scram, Here’s a G note, now take iton the lam.” ‘Isn't it simply foul my dear? Seads of us here and not a vestige of iny whoopee. I mean it's just too like v morgue, what? My dear, if I hadn't dropped simply tons of the ready in the crash I'd pop over to Antibes. I mean I actually would. This life is just too utterably utter my dear.” —R. Deane comicbooks.com