Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, March 1921 · page 33 of 68
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This page contains two distinct pieces of satirical content from what appears to be a 1920s men's humor magazine. The upper section mocks men who claim virtuousness about women, arguing that excessive professions of virtue actually undermine masculine credibility ("virility"). The satire suggests such posturing is hypocritical. The lower section, "Embarrassing Moments," presents a classroom anecdote designed for crude humor. A schoolteacher asks young students to define "leg" using the riddle "What is it of which I have two and a cow has four?" The joke hinges on the word's double meaning—the anatomical term versus the animal's limbs. A child apparently shouts an indecent answer, so offensive the teacher faints and the class gets a vacation. The humor relies on sexual innuendo and the premise that children's innocent directness exposes adult euphemism. This reflects the magazine's target audience: men seeking risqué jokes under the guise of satire.
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Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang 31 as contributors to the undoing of man. They boast of a virtue that stamps them as impotents, superinduced by their own follies, and makes of them living hypo- crites, ashamed to acknowledge the truth. A man who boasts of “never a thought of women” will certainly not be molested by REAL women. Remember this, my friends, that in the conquest for a woman’s love, it is far better to be audacious, for to profess too great a virtue may cause them to doubt your virility. * * * Embarrassing Moments A Robbinsdale school teacher had a class up to spell. They were very young. She pronounced the word “leg.” The young miss who was to spell it was very modest and couldn’t spell it, a big awkward boy blushed furiously when it was passed down to him and the next one spelled it. “And what is the definition?” she asked, elevat- ing her eyebrows encouragingly. Nobody knew. “Why children,” she insisted, “surely you know that? What is it of which I have two and a cow has four?” There was an awkward pause for just a moment and then a diminutive urchin at the foot of the class yelled out an answer. The answer has not yet appeared in print, but they do say that there was a vacation the rest of that day, while the teacher recovered conscious- ness.