Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, June 1921 · page 60 of 67
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 60: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang* (a 1920s humor magazine) contains no political cartoons—only humorous poems and jingles about romantic and social embarrassment. The content targets male anxieties of the era: unrequited love ("That Girl You Lost!"), class consciousness ("The Garbage Blues"—mocking a man seduced by a garbage man's daughter), and hangovers ("Remorse"—the "morning after" regret from dry martinis). The final jingle jokes about a wardrobe malfunction at a dance when a woman's clothing tears, causing her to lose interest in dancing. The satire is genteel and domestic rather than political. It reflects 1920s attitudes: mild misogyny (women as conquests), class snobbery, and drinking culture during Prohibition. The humor relied on readers recognizing these social situations and double meanings. Today it reads as quaint period humor about male regret and social awkwardness.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 59 Jest Jokes and Jingles That Girl You Lost! Long though a man recalls the achievements of his life, yet it is quite often the little things he failed to achieve that linger longest in his memory; even after he has forgotten her name and whether her eyes were brown or blue. The Garbage Blues Rocks in the mountains, Fish in the sea, A garbage man's daughter Made a dump out of me. Remorse Those dry martinis were too much for me. Last night at twelve I felt immense, Today, I feel like thirty cents. But it is a poor time for mirth and laughter, The cold, gray dawn of the morning after. I went to a dance with a girl named Nora. We danced and we danced on the floor-a. I heard a rip, and I knew by chance That Nora had lost her desire to dance