Life, 1928-11-30 · page 28 of 52
Life — November 30, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief satirical anecdotes and jokes mocking contemporary absurdities. The cartoon strip (top left) depicts a man repeatedly losing shoes while drunk—visual humor about alcoholism's consequences. The text items target everyday foolishness: a wife's illogical excuse for losing a borrowed book; a husband smugly hearing burnt toast scraping instead of being called to breakfast; a student claiming her composition is original while admitting she "made it up"; and a Glasgow conductor sarcastically calling out the one passenger riding free (the conductor himself). Other bits mock 1920s popular culture and pseudo-science: Broadway's experimental theater spreading to provinces; implausible plumbing ("frozen or burned"); Dr. Robinson's claim that Martian women are fickle; and shell-shock from watching war movies. The humor is mild social observation—poking fun at human contradictions, marital dynamics, and modern pretensions rather than serious satire.
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“Oh, Lord! V've gone and lost the other shoe “Now 1 won't be able to go out Avavaa, tIeoholic Strategy —Guritaatz (Maonio). Tnexe is to be a road company of “Strange Interlude.”* It was felt that life in the provinces would be finer and richer if the peo ple had something to take dinner between, —New Yorker. “Mabel, what did you do with that book I re- viewed last week? You gave it away for a bridge prize? Why, you now 1 hadn't read at yet.”” —Ciiicrco Prorsix, BATHING SONG My shower’s like a secret vault Whose combination can't be learned; In vain I turn the faucets ‘round— I'm cither frozen or I'm burned. —Harvard Lampoon. BREAKFAST’S READY! A ivssaso appeared in the kitchen before the call for breakfast. “Did you think I called you to breakfast?" asked the surprised wife. “IL didn’t need to be called. I heard you scraping the burns off the toast,"’ replied the compatible husband.—Indianapolis News OUT OF HER OWN HEAD Lovise had just read her composition and her teacher said: “That is good, Louise. Is it original?”* “No, I made it up.” —Charleston News and Courier. An Iowa man has been arrested for drunkenness a hundred and seventeen umes in the last ten months, There ought to be a law! —New York Evening Post. “Tie xew mayor of Peking, China, is Mr. Ho."* What Ho?—Detroit News. THE ONLY ONE Tt Grascow tam-car was making for the foot. ball ground packed with soccer fans when the conductor reappeared on the upper deck to make sure he had collected all the fares. “Is there any braw laddic here ridin’ free?" he asked with a shout. “Aye; ye are, laddie,"* groaned a chorus of envious voices.—Weekly Telegrcph (Sheffield). NIGHTMARE X (not looking in the best of health): As a matter of fact 1 didn’t sleep much last night. Had a horrible dream. Y: Nothing to worry about in that, surely. X: A man’s in a bad way when he docsn’t play better golf in his sleep than he does on the links.—London Evening News THOSE MARTIAN BLUES Dr. Rosixsos, the Martian expert, says women on Mars are just as fickle as they are on the earth. And human nature being what it is, the Martians probably have a tiresome song to that effect, too.—Kansas City Star “We are the oddest grocers in the town, The best quality at the lowest prices.” —Advt. in a Provincial Paper, Ir certainly sounds very unusual. —Humorist (London). Man Suffering Shell-shock from Listening to ¢ Livatone War Movie. —Princeron Ticte. comicbooks.com