Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, April 1923 · page 50 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #44 — page 50: what you’re looking at
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This page collects short jokes and quips typical of *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang*, a popular American humor magazine. The humor relies on ethnic stereotypes, wordplay, and social commentary: **"Nights Too Chilly"** uses a Jewish dialect joke mocking both a father's accent and his confidence in arranging marriage without modern courtship. **"Somebody is Getting Nosey"** references women outperforming men at Northwestern University—contemporary anxiety about female educational advancement. **The three types of men** offers cynical relationship advice reflecting post-WWI disillusionment. **"Olaf"** and **"The Aggie College Yell"** target rural/agricultural students with crude humor about spitting tobacco and farm life. **The goat eating the magazine** is self-promotional wordplay—the publication's humor is intentionally lowbrow ("Bull"). **The final pun** ("little Cain") makes a biblical joke about walking sticks replacing canes after Cain's murder of Abel. The page exemplifies 1920s mainstream comedy: ethnic caricatures, sexual innuendo, and jokes about modernization alongside self-deprecating satire.
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50 Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang Nights Too Chilly, Anyway A Jewish girl was going to dances and mas- querade balls all the time. So one day her father said to her: “Rachel, for why do you go to so many dances and masquerade balls?” “Why, father,” she said, “I want to get me a husband.” “Never mind, my daughter, you stay home, I get you a husband without dances and masquerade balls.” * * * Somebody is Getting Nosey (From the Chicago Tribune) Women students at Northwestern university are outstripping the men. * * * There are three types of men who succeed with women: men who make them wonder, men who make them worry, and men who make them weep. * * * One thing in Olaf’s favor—he aims carefully when slobbering his snuff into the gaboon. * * * The Aggie College Yell Fertilizer, Fertilizer Get your full, Ormsby, Pedro, Whiz Bang Bull. * * * Experience is a school where a fellow learns what a big chump he has been. * * * “I have a taste for good literature,” said the goat as he chewed up a copy of Capta n Billy’s Winter Annual. * * * Walking sticks were invented when Eve presented Adam with a little Cain.