Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, April 1923 · page 26 of 68
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This page from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang* (a 1920s humor magazine) contains a series of brief jokes and comic observations with no illustrated cartoons visible. The humor relies on era-typical comedic tropes: a patient dodging doctor's health advice by asking for the "next best thing" (implying vice is preferable); a father joking he and his bald baby share only baldness; crude jokes about babies and flies; an elderly man euphemistically deflecting his age ("Ninety—dammit") while viewing attractive women; a double-entendre about a dance step called the "horse walk" (because a "wagon" follows behind); and the final piece, a mild sexual innuendo where Olaf proposes kissing a girl after witnessing affectionate cattle—she consents because it's "Captain Billy's cow" (implying no consequences to using someone else's property). The humor is juvenile, pun-heavy, and targets working-class audiences with ribald but relatively innocent jokes.
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26 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Perhaps He Likes Pie "The best thing for you," said the doctor, solemnly, "is to give up cigars, whisky, late hours—" "Hold on, doctor," interrupted the patient, "what's the next best thing." * * * They say the baby looks like me, A circumstance I dreaded; But the only likeness I can see Is that we're both bald-headed. * * * A fish caught near Greenland had 22,341,000 eggs inside. We are going to read this to Pedro. * * * Song Entitled: "Papa get the hammer, there's a fly on baby's head." * * * Inquisitive person at summer resort—"Say, grandpop, how old are you?" Grandpop (glancing at the sea-side seraphs)—"Ninety—dam- mit." * * * "What kind of a step is that?" "We call it the "horse walk." "Why call it that?" "Wagon behind." * * * We've No Objections if Rosebud Hasn't Olaf was making a visit to Deacon Miller's hired girl and as they were walking through the fields, they noticed a cow and a calf rubbing noses in bovine love. "The sight of that makes we want to do the same thing," said Olaf. "Go ahead," she replied, "it's Captain Billy's cow."