Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 54: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two humorous sections: **"Embolusing the Thrombosis"** parodies courtroom testimony, where a doctor uses deliberately obscure medical jargon to explain a death in absurdly convoluted terms. The joke mocks expert witnesses who employ incomprehensible terminology to sound authoritative—the diagnosis is nonsensical pseudo-medical gibberish that the judge nonetheless accepts ("I think so, too"). **"Good Evening, Bartender!"** is a brief joke about a man arrested for impersonating a police officer. His offense: he knocked on a speakeasy door and drank the illegal alcohol offered to him, mimicking officer behavior during Prohibition-era raids. The humor lies in the absurdity of his "impersonation"—he successfully conned bootleggers by pretending to be law enforcement. Both pieces satirize authority figures and highlight 1920s Prohibition-era lawlessness.