Life — August 1, 1930 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page contains three distinct pieces of humor: 1. **"Not Priceless"** — A poem by Berton Braley mocking flowery romantic verse, suggesting poetry about a woman's features would be worthless ("ought to be a cinch to sell"). 2. **"Never Again!"** — A brief joke about a left-handed man at an arm-chair lunch room who ate the narrator's dinner, a play on awkward shared dining spaces. 3. **"The Back-seat Driver Goes Prohibition"** — The main cartoon satirizes drinking and driving safety. A back-seat passenger delivers an absurdly long, paranoid monologue warning the driver against alcohol, ironically advising him to sell his car and buy a water wagon instead. The joke targets both drunk driving concerns and Prohibition-era anxieties about drinking culture.