Life, 1928-07-05 · page 36 of 50
Life — July 5, 1928 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects satirical one-liners and comic strips mocking contemporary social absurdities, drawn from newspapers and magazines worldwide. **Top section** features brief humorous quips about modern life: a man playing bridge whose partner throws cards at him (mocking the game's intensity); someone whose drunk father accumulated wine labels; politicians giving "gifts" with hidden motives. **The main comic strip** shows "Young Blobbs" so absorbed in a correspondence course that he ignores the office environment, ultimately attracting the boss's attention—satirizing how home-study programs distracted workers, or how obsessive self-improvement schemes backfired. **Right-side items** mock Prohibition-era absurdities (children becoming bootleggers and cigar addicts) and exaggerated film production claims. The page's title references Juvenal's *Satires*, positioning this as classical satire. It's essentially a joke compilation, typical of Life's format mocking contemporary follies through reprinted wit.
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Another Optimist —Butterin (Syoxey). A FEEBLE SPARK Ir may be tue, as the eminent scientist asserts, that a kiss is nothing more or less than an elec- tric shock but we just kissed an incoming wife's relative and guess our batteries must be about run down, not to mention hers. —Ohio State Journal. “Waar kind of a time did he have abroad?"* “A bit mixed, I think. He had 11 wine labels among those on his trunk.""—Detroit News. Crooxto politicians fear those baring gifts. —Wall Street Journal. , BE “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” MAD A srivce player about town was playing at a very nice club when his partner, for reasons we shall not attempt to go into, threw all his thir- teen cards at him. This insulted Mr. Jones, as we shall call him, and he left the room, Flushed and nervous, he paced about, and in so doing came upon one vf the board of governors. He told him what had happened and demanded that some sort of action be taken. “My good fellow," said the governor, who was not one of the more dynamic governors, “how fortunate that were not quoits!""—Gohlin (Toronto). you playing Dav: How did you come out with your ex- ams? So: Passed ‘em just like they were cars ahead.—Cincinnati Enquirer. “The sun must have gone behind a cloud.’ —Séxorcsvisse-Sraix (StockHoLa). “Coxoxte Fixos Daiver Hap Taxen Onty Four Lussoxs Berout Hittinc Car.”—Headline in the Connecticut News. Some people have a knack.—New Yorker. YOUNG BLOBBS WAS SO INTERESTED ontemporaries COMING ATTRACTION Ma. Zitcrety of New York says he wants to call his musical show’ something other than “‘revues."" That being the case, he ought to come out this summer with a production subtitled: “A Revue to End Revues."” —Spokane Spokesman-Review. “There! Now # can get me an acquittal!” Le Canaro Exctaisé (Paris). FLAMING KIDDIES Sarrie has a three-year-old cigar addict and In- diana a twelve-year-old bootlegger with a fond- ness for his own wares. Now it we can find some | bright lad between five and ten with a pretty sense of the value of two pairs before the draw, the list of infant prodigies will be complete. —Arkansas Gazette, children he employs often suggest ideas wo him. That explains a good deal.—Punch Aut. Work and no play makes bridge an Ay American film-producer says that the argument.—St, Louis Post-Dispatch. QUICKLY ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF THE BOSS, —Weexcy Tevecrapy (Surrrietp).