Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1922 · page 28 of 67
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This is a humor page from an early 20th-century American satirical magazine, consisting of brief jokes and quips rather than visual cartoons. The content reflects period attitudes: women are mocked for their appearance ("Women and eggs alike"); sorority girls are derided for loose morality ("nothing to fasten them to"); and there's wordplay on naval terminology where "screw" (the ship's propeller) sets up an innuendo joke. A drunk man's excuse for lying in a gutter plays on slurred speech and faulty logic. The final joke mocks female ignorance, equating a "football coach" with a vehicle—likely referencing the slang term "coach" for a car or carriage. The tone is lighthearted misogyny typical of 1920s humor magazines, targeting women's intellect and morality as stock comedic subjects.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 27 Pasture Pot Pourri More Truth Than Poultry Women and eggs are alike, because their doggoned virtues just k'aint be judged from outside appearances. * * * Sorority pins have gone out of style. There's nothing to fasten them to. * * * Oh, For the Life of a Sailor "You say you are a sailor. Very well, what is a ship of the second class called?" "Why it's a cruiser." Right. Now, tell me, who takes care of it and guides it o'er the seas?" "It's crew, sir." "Fine. Now name the machinery that makes it go, that pushes it through the water. "It's screw, sir." * * * "How did you happen to be laying there in the gut-ter?" demanded the policeman. "Az alright," replied the inebriated one, "I jush happened to walk between two lamp poshs and leaned against the wrong one." * * * My girl is so ignorant that she thinks a football coach has four wheels.