Judge, 1931-07-04 · page 7 of 36
Judge — July 4, 1931 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"Subdivision Love"** (poem by Pressly Phillips): Mocks suburban real estate marketing, satirizing how developers oversell modest properties with grandiose language about "boards of commerce" and ocean views. 2. **"Solution"** (text joke): Makes fun of truck drivers by suggesting they solve the rhinoceros problem in Africa—a absurdist non-sequitur joke relying on the randomness of the punchline. 3. **"Big Moment in the Life of an Advertiser"** (cartoon): Shows an advertising professional surrounded by blueprints, apparently discovering his toothpaste can cure some ailment—mocking how advertisers exaggerate product claims. 4. **"Question"** (miscellaneous jokes): Various one-liners about mosquitoes, Governor Pinchot's campaign against hackneyed phrases, and Democrats—typical period political/social commentary. The overall tone satirizes American commercialism, advertising excess, and political rhetoric.
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Subdivision Love u, fly with me to Boomside Heights, my lovely bride-to-be, And we will close an option on a villa by the sea; 4 ‘To a carefully restricted shore allot- ment we will fly, Where a board of commerce sunset tints the subdivided sky. At Boomside Heights love's dream comes true—the blueprints prove it so. In Section Six, Addition Two, project Here's a moon is oversize fidavit: that. the That the ocean and the starlight are the same as advertised. | . Oh, fly with me to Boomside Heights, nor tarry in your flight; Dear, hand in hand we'll m_ the | land that doubles over night. Come, view God's former handiwork —the season's niftiest buy— Where a board of commerce sunset tints the subdivided sky. —Pressty Piuciips Solution The rhinoceros in Africa, according to a returned explorer, will charge at automobiles and wreck them. Well, that solves the problem of what a truck-driver can do on his day off— he can go rhinoceros riding. And nowadays you can't sce the Bio Moment in tHe Lire or an Apvertiser woods for the billboards. He discovers a new disease which his tooth paste will cure. Question A scientist says that mosquitoes fly for fourteen hours without land But the trouble is they don’t. And we can see only one solution of the mosquito problem—and that is to wrap them in cellophane. Governor Pinchot has inaugurated a campaign to get rid of hackneyed phrases in business letters. One th we'd most like to get rid of is “Please remit.” This is the time of year when the air is filled with the balmy fragrance of roses and the balmy fragments of And a Democrat is a man who says the last Republican landslide also “By golly, Bill, I’m sick of your darn practical jokes!!” buried business. 5