Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #45 — page 28: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains three separate humor pieces: 1. **"Am They a Hell?"** — A satirical sermon by a Black pastor using dialect humor (common in this era's comedy). The joke presents a theological explanation for Hell using an extended metaphor: God greased the world's axles, but sinners stole the lubricant by drilling oil wells across America and globally. When the axles overheat from friction, that friction becomes Hell itself. The satire appears to target both religious hypocrisy and the oil industry's environmental exploitation. 2. **A brief romantic poem** about past romantic conquests. 3. **"Say It With Corn Flowers"** — A darkly comedic obituary from the Pikeburg Gazette reporting a man's death by laughing so hard at a cockroach tickling his neck that he burst a blood vessel. The Mayor saved the spilled corn liquor bottle.