Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1924 · page 60 of 71
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #67 — page 60: what you’re looking at
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This page contains five separate short jokes typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines, presented under a "Farmyard Fun and Philosophy" heading. The jokes target various social stereotypes: a child's literalism about spitting (a doctor's sample), women's roles as either romantic interests or domestic labor, infidelity and mistaken-identity violence in hotels, unmarried women's sexuality (the hammock/broom as signals of sexual experience), and finally, a man's financial ruin from courting an actress. The humor relies on wordplay, double meanings, and exaggeration. The most darkly comedic piece—about shooting the wrong couple in a hotel room—reflects period attitudes treating violent jealousy as suitable comic material. The "actress" joke perpetuates stereotypes about women entertainers as financially predatory. These are not political cartoons but rather collected quips reflecting casual social prejudices common to early 20th-century American popular entertainment, with no specific historical events referenced.
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=[Farmyard Fun and Filosofy]= Who? Me? Little Johnny had a canker mouth, and was sent to a doctor. After examining him, the doctor said: “Now Johnny, let me have a sample of your saliva. “Spit in that glass over there on the window.” Johnny looked, and then demanded: “What? From here?” * * * Whales in the ocean Fish in the brook, Some girls are to love, And others to cook. * * * It Pays to Lock Your Door Pausing for a breathless moment, the man glanced up and down the silent halls of the hotel. Then, as softly as a cat, he sneaked up to the door, took a gun from his pocket, and, walking in, shot a couple who were tightly embraced. At the second shot he turned up the light and said: “My Gosh! I’m on the wrong floor!” * * * When a girl swings her hammock in a dark corner of the piazza and hangs a whisk broom within reach, she has had experience. * * * Bill Was Acting Up “I hear that Bill fell in with an actress, and then fell out with her.” “No harm in that, is there?” “No, but between the two falls, he broke every bone in his pocketbook.” =[55]=