Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, June 1921 · page 32 of 67
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page from the satirical magazine contains a series of bawdy, double-entendre-heavy limericks and short verses typical of 1920s humor. The jokes rely on sexual innuendo rather than political content: - A woman has multiple suitors but favors a sailor she calls her "evening's tar" - A riff on "The Spider and the Fly" where a woman refuses a man's advances, claiming she's a "Spanish fly" (a supposed aphrodisiac, but here she's rejecting the comparison) - Crude plays on words: "Mary got the butt'n" (buttoning/sexual contact), a monkey licking paint off a stick (oral sex metaphor), and a boy with "his arms full of girl" These are examples of the irreverent, sex-joke-focused humor that made *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang* popular among soldiers and working-class men in the post-WWI era. The satire targets social propriety and sexual prudishness rather than politics.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 31 Limber Kicks Of sweethearts she has quite a few, They come frem near and far; But the sailor who comes there each night She calls her evening's tar. * * * "Won't you step into the parlor?" Said the spider to the fly. "You bet your life I'll not," she said. And winked her other eye. "You must think I'm easy, And that you are very sly, No knock-out drops in mine, sir, For I'm a Spanish fly." * * * Mary had a little lamb, A joyous, youthful mutton; And when they played at parlor games 'Twas Mary got the butt'n. * * * Little Mary had a monkey On a painted stick, She sucked the paint all off one day, It made poor Mary sick. * * * The boy sat on the moon-lit deck, His head was in a whirl; His eyes and mouth were full of hair, And his arms were full of girl.