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This page mixes **satirical humor with period advertisements**, primarily targeting WWI-era audiences. ## The Satire **"The Overworked Australian Simile"** mocks Australian soldiers' overuse of hyperbolic comparisons—everything in Mesopotamia is "hot as hell," "cold as hell," or "blows like hell." The joke satirizes how Australian slang relies on this single intensifier. **"Last Resort"** depicts a conductor struggling to get a hogging train passenger to move. When politeness fails, he asks if anyone knows the German command "move up"—a joke implying that Germans are better at obeying orders, reflecting WWI-era stereotypes. **"They Still Joke in England"** presents dark wartime humor: a doctor is unavailable because he was "blown up" in a raid, and a woman's homemade bread is so inedible that even feeding it to Germans (the enemy) seems cruel. ## Advertisements The page also features cigarette and garter ads typical of 1910s-1920s magazines, marketing to soldiers and working men. The overall tone balances lighthearted mockery of wartime life with period-appropriate ethnic stereotyping.

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