Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, June 1921 · page 61 of 67
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 61: what you’re looking at
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This page collects brief humorous items typical of 1920s satirical magazines. The humor relies on wordplay and risqué innuendo: **"A Sun Dodger"** jokes about young couples necking in parks—the chaperone spots them by the glow of radium-dial watches on their stockings (radium clock faces were common novelties then, emitting visible light). **"An Alabam' Ad"** is a classified ad pun: a bakery seeks a boy "born in the yeast" who's a "good mixer" and will "get his dough"—all double entendres about romance and sex. **"When Phyllis lets me tie her shoe"** uses absurdist exaggeration (not minding if she were a centipede) to express infatuation. The items celebrate Whiz Bang's own comedic brand—the magazine self-promotes by joking that readers now tell its jokes to others. These pieces target adult, urban audiences with sexual humor and puns typical of post-WWI American periodicals.
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60 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang A Modern Man's Prayer Oh, please, give me a woman who can make real beer. * * * It's all right to shoot the bull provided you don't give a bum steer. * * * A Sun Dodger They sat in the park, out there in the dark, And the chaperone thought it quite shocking; She found 'em all right, for she saw in the night, The radium clock on each stocking. * * * We Clipped This (From Fayetteville Press.) Shore is tough these days, to try to tell a girl a good joke and have her say: "Never mind, I read Whiz Bang myself." * * * It wasn't the drink that killed poor John, Nor a sight that took his breath, But he read a Whiz Bang, so 'tis said, And laughed himself to death. * * * An Alabam' Ad Wanted—Boy for bakery. Must come well bred, an early riser, born in the yeast, a good mixer and will get his dough every Sat-urday night. * * * When Phyllis lets me tie her shoe My glad heart sings. Indeed, I do declare, I wouldn't care Were she a centipede.