Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1924 · page 34 of 71
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This page from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang*, a popular American humor magazine, contains several brief jokes targeting different audiences: **"His Play Days Are Over"** mocks officious women organizing shipboard activities, using the punchline that the man is "seasick"—implying he's too ill to participate, subverting expectations of marital status. **The laundry joke** plays on drunken speech patterns ("Shay," "handsh") for comedic effect. **"Hints to Beach-nuts"** is a dark joke: don't swim after eating or you'll drown and won't be found. **"Rural Pastimes"** appears to reference men (possibly with ethnic names) marking up a smokehouse wall—likely in boredom or mischief—creating permanent damage that survives weather. **The choir joke** is a pun: the woman chose the "tenor" (higher voice) because he's "high-toned" (socially refined/snobbish). The humor is broad, relying on puns, drunkenness, ethnic stereotypes, and physical comedy typical of 1920s-30s American popular humor.
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=[Captain Billy's Whiz Bang]= His Play Days Are Over On a trip across the Atlantic one of those officious women who always are doing things, went to a man reclining in a steamer chair and said: “We are getting up a game between the married men and married women. Come and join us won’t you?” “Lady,” the man replied, “you’ve made a mistake. I’m not married. I’m seasick.” * * * Inebriated One—“Shay, ish thish a hand laundry?” Manager—“Yes.” Inebriated One—“Wash my handsh, will ya?” * * * Hints to Beach-nuts NEVER GO INTO THE WATER AFTER A HEARTY MEAL.—YOU’LL NEVER FIND IT THERE. * * * Rural Pastimes Maggie’s in the kitchen, Pedro’s in the stall Gus’s in the smokehouse Marking up the wall. When the rain is over The clouds will roll away, But the marks upon the smokehouse Will stay and stay and stay. * * * The belle of the choir loved the bass, but she married the tenor because he was more high-toned. =[32]=