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This page contains two satirical pieces poking fun at early 20th-century American vernacular and commerce. **"Lessons in New Yorkese"** is a dialect humor piece transcribing a conversation between a bus passenger and conductor in exaggerated New York accent (dropping g's, slurring words: "yafare" for "your fare," "Igotta" for "I got to"). The joke relies on the ethnic and class comedy popular in period humor—the crude speech patterns of working-class urban New Yorkers. **"Used Car Dealer"** satirizes the sleazy used-car salesman archetype through an interior monologue. The dealer cynically admits deceiving a customer about a worthless vehicle ("junk heap"), planning to exploit the buyer's naivety while talking fast to distract from obvious defects (missing back seat, dented fenders). The satire targets both the dishonest salesman and the gullible buyer ("the sap") in post-WWI consumer culture. Both pieces reflect period attitudes toward working-class speech and consumer fraud as comedic material.

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