Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1922 · page 12 of 67
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This page from a 1920s humor magazine contains five brief, disconnected satirical anecdotes: 1. **Pilot joke**: Dark humor about an aeroplane pilot's funeral arrangements. 2. **Rooster proverb**: Mocks the traditional saying by noting that catching a fighting rooster is actually difficult—reversing the proverb's logic. 3. **Modern woman satire**: Criticizes younger women for abandoning old-fashioned morality pledges ("Lips That Touch Liquor...") to party instead. This reflects post-Prohibition era anxieties about changing female behavior. 4. **Small-town coincidence**: A humorous anecdote about a speeding mother and a girl on a kiddy car who happens to be a wedding attendant—emphasizing small-town interconnectedness. 5. **Mustache cup**: A comedic "fish-out-of-water" story where an old storekeeper discovers a specialized Victorian-era coffee cup, implying rural people were unfamiliar with such urban refinements. The humor relies on social commentary, generational conflict, and rural/urban contrasts typical of the era.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 11 Point aeroplane pilot, arises in the belief it will be some years before his private under- taker has an ace in the hole. * * * A KIND reader sends us a proverb “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Brother, if you ever picked up a rooster, especially if it was a fighting cock, you’d know that this proverb doesn’t apply in the barnyard. * * * T HE old-fashioned girl who used to recite “Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine,” nowadays is too busy whooping it up at “parties” to bother about recitations. * * * A YOUNG mother pushing a baby carriage was arrested in Robbinsdale for SPEED- ING. She collided with a young girl riding a kiddy car. Neither was hurt. Oddly enough, the school girl was one of the ring bearers at the young mother’s wedding this spring. * * * O LD MAN SCHULTZ, our village store- keeper, went down to McDonald Brothers wholesale house in Minneapolis the other day to buy crockery. “What’s that thing for?” he asked the clerk. “That’s a mustache cup,” explained the genial salesman. “The guard is to keep your mustache out of the coffee.”