Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1924 · page 17 of 71
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This page contains three unrelated humorous anecdotes mocking early 20th-century American social types: **"S.O.S."** jokes about a young man rushing to his girlfriend's aid, only to discover her distress was caused by a poorly-made cocktail—satirizing both romantic melodrama and Prohibition-era drinking culture. **The farmer anecdote** celebrates practical deception: a shrewd seller creates visual contrast by positioning his skinny hired man next to a lean horse, making the animal appear healthier by comparison. It mocks both rural cunning and commercial dishonesty. **"It Might Have Been the Tee"** uses golf terminology as a double meaning: taking "six shots on one hole" could imply drug use, but actually means poor golfing. The joke satirizes both golf culture and drug-use hysteria of the era. The final aphorism is a fishing metaphor about romantic pursuit. All three sections employ working-class vernacular and situational humor typical of 1920s satirical magazines.
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=[Farmyard Fun and Filosophy]= S. O. S. “My girl calls me up and she sez, ‘Come ovah quick, I’m all alone and I’m shakin’ some- thin’ awful’—so of course I rushes right ovah.” “Yeh?” “And it was awful!” “What? Her agitation?” “No, the cocktail.” * * * Gus says a real business man who appreciates the power of contrast is the farmer who, on the day the buyer came to look at his lean, old horse, had his skinny, hired man stand alongside in his union suit. * * * Let’s Hope She Had It (From the Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph) for roughnecks and sea catins Mrs. Charles Stephenson, of East Grove Street, has gone to Chicago for a time. Books Received Anatomy, by Ben Ames Williams * * * It Might Have Been the Tee “My word! That golf player is a drug fiend.” “You don’t say. How do you know?” “He admitted it himself. He just said he took six shots on one hole this morning.” * * * There’s as good fish in the sea as ever were caught, but why fish when you’ve used up all your bait? =[15]=