Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1921 · page 55 of 68
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This page from a 1920s satirical magazine contains short humorous pieces targeting domestic life and marriage. **"Pasture Pot Pourri"** opens with a joke mocking wives' complaints about utility bills, playing on Tennyson's famous poem. **"Bedroom Farcical Maxims"** uses puns ("auto/ought to," "stall/stable") for mild marital humor. The central piece, **"Here We Are—In Again,"** darkly jokes about a policeman named Knife whose twins die in quick succession (one from cough, one from flu)—grim humor reflecting post-WWI and pandemic-era mortality. The closing quips mock women's weight and express misogynistic sentiment: marriage is compared to alcoholic withdrawal (DTs), and the final statement reduces women to one of life's pleasures, ranked below wine and song. The overall tone is cynical about marriage and women—typical of this era's "men's magazine" humor, which treated domestic friction and female stereotypes as comedy fodder.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 53 Pasture Pot Pourri No, Madeline, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” does not refer to your gas and electric bills. * * * Bedroom Farcical Maxims Never retire in a garage unless you auto, and— Never sleep in a stable for a stall. * * * Love is the intoxication of joy—marriage is the D. T’s. * * * Here We Are—In Again Policeman Knife had by his wife A set of bouncing twins; One took a cough which took it off From this abode of sins; Number one no sooner died And into the coffin slid, When number two took the flu And joined the other kid. * * * She only weighs two pounds less than a horse. * * * THERE ARE A THOUSAND THINGS LIFE’S WORTH LIVING FOR. ONE IS WINE, ONE IS SONG—AND THE OTHER 998 ARE WOMEN.