Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1921 · page 53 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #28 — page 53: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains no political cartoons—only humorous short jokes and quips typical of 1920s American satirical magazines. The humor relies on wordplay and mild social commentary: **Key jokes:** - A stranger mistakes the narrator for a doctor; the joke implies easy access to illegal alcohol (Prohibition era context). - Women blush from "the druggist"—another Prohibition reference, suggesting women buy alcohol from pharmacists. - Restaurant insult joke: the narrator asks if they serve food "fit for a hog," implying poor quality. - Marriage joke: wives control husbands through their hair—a domestic power dynamic gag. - Barber pun: "scraping acquaintance" plays on the scraping motion of barbering while suggesting barbers meet many people. The humor is crude, topical to Prohibition and 1920s gender roles, and entirely dependent on now-obscure references readers of that era would immediately recognize.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 51 Pasture Pot Pourri The other day a stranger walked up and asked me if I was a doctor. I informed him that I wasn't, but that I thought I knew where he could get some. * * * Some women get red in the face from modesty, some from anger, and some from the druggist. * * * Pour Her Back Into the Ocean She wiggled, she waddled, She leapt and she toddled; She shivered, she quivered, she shook. She rippled, she trippled, She sprang and she skipped— Her dance was “The Song of the Brook.” * * * The Song of a Sailor “There’s just one Gal in Galveston, but there’s More in Baltimore.” * * * I went into a restaurant. I said, “Have you got anything fit for a hog to eat?” He said, “Yes, what do you want?” * * * When a married man gets his hair cut, his wife loses her strongest hold on him. * * * The barber has a scraping acquaintance with a great many people.