Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1921 · page 15 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #22 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains brief humorous jokes and verses typical of 1920s men's magazine humor. The pieces mock romantic and domestic situations: **"The Tale of a Shirt"** debates whether a girlfriend should tell her sweetheart his shirt is untucked—treating it as casual as any other garment, not something intimate or embarrassing. **The fat-girl joke** uses exaggeration for crude humor common to the era. **"All Aboard for Arkansaw"** satirizes rural poverty through a verse cataloging family ailments (eczema, gout, skin conditions). **"No Caveman Stuff Here"** jokes that a woman has destroyed multiple hair nets during rough dates, implying aggressive male behavior. **"In the Garden of Eden"** presents a risqué pun where the apple and tree's dialogue suggests seduction and abandonment. The humor relies on era-specific anxieties about courtship propriety, class differences, and gender dynamics—treated as fodder for comedic one-liners.
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Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang 13 The Tale of a Shirt Comfort, the farmers’ journal, says this: Is there any way for a girl to tell her sweetheart his shirt-tail is out? The same way she would tell her brother or cousin or any friend. A sweetheart’s shirt-tail is no more sacred or worthy of respect than any other shirt- tail. A tail belongs to a shirt as much as cuffs or a collar and isn’t any more indecent. I’d tell anyone to tuck his shirt in—just like that. * * * My girl is so fat she wears inner tubes for garters. * * * All Aboard for Arkansaw Mama’s got eczema, Papa’s got the gout, I’ve got something itchy coo; It’s just breakin’ out. * * * No Caveman Stuff Here “Oh Jane, how have you been getting on with Ed?” “Not very well, Dolly; I’ve had to buy only two hair nets for my last five dates with him.” * * * In the Garden of Eden “I’ll peel off,” said the apple. “If you do, I’ll leave,” said the tree.