Life, 1923-03-29 · page 27 of 40
Life — March 29, 1923 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a humorous cartoon sequence titled "Movie of a Bull Pup and a Dish of Ice Cream," showing a small dog's various misadventures with a bowl of ice cream—eating it, chasing it, and ultimately ending up in a bathtub. The accompanying text is satirical. It presents a tall tale from someone boasting about an exotic location with perfect weather, interrupted by a mock news report about two comets vanishing from an astronomical trio called "The Jolly Three." The joke appears to be a play on words or absurdist humor: the speaker's narrative is cut off by "the music of the spheres," and we're told the next item will "explain what finally happened"—but the explanation is simply that two comets have disappeared, suggesting the comets are somehow responsible for interrupting the story, or that the story about perfect weather was itself interrupted by cosmic events. The humor relies on non-sequitur and incongruity—juxtaposing mundane earthly entertainment with cosmic mysteries.
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Movie of a Bull Pup and a Dish of Ice Cream Well, I could show you a little place vhere I’ve been that would make your eyes pop out of your heads. “And say, let me tell you another thing,” he continued. “You all here don’t know what climate is. Why, we took a little swirl down the ine over there, lasting maybe ten years, and I give you my word that only once in those ten years did we run into anything that you could oa really call bad weather. And that wasn't anything more than a shower.” The music of the spheres unfor- tunately cut in at this point, but the following item, when it appears, will explain what finally happened. Two Comets VANISH FROM Ace-OLp Trio Cambridge, Mass. (Associated Press)—Astronomers here are mys- tified at the sudden disappearance of two comets which formerly made up the trio known as “The Jolly Three.” Skjellerup’s and Baade’s are the names of the two missing tailed stars, while Perrine’s remains the only one of the group to be visible from the observatory. It is thought that Skjel- lerup’s and Baade’s are in hiding somewhere, R. C. B. comicbooks.com