Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 24, September, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyVarious
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 24, September, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
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American wit and humor -- Periodicals
=_Dear Captain Billy_=—What, in your opinion, does love most
resemble?—=_Georgette._=
A roast beef sandwich. Two thin slices of sentiment and the rest filled
in with bull.
* * * * *
=_Dear Captain Billiam_=—What kind of hand does a card sharper win
with?—=_Pokker Feene._=
An I-deal hand.
* * * * *
=_Dear Cap_=—Why are eggs much smaller now than in the past?—=_Lee Way._=
I suppose it’s because they’re taken out of the nest too soon.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—A story in a New York paper says a dancer has
insured her legs for $125,000. What’s the idea?—=_Lew D. Fiske._=
We don’t know definitely, Lew.
* * * * *
=_Dear Skipper Bill_=—What war material did Chili export to the Allies
during the war?—=_Clara Voyant._=
Beans.
* * * * *
=_Dear Bill_=—If you’re a good little astronomer I know you’ll tell me
what star was recently measured, and found to be of enormous size?—=_May
Triatit._=
Fatty Arbuckle, I guess.
* * * * *
=_Dear Captain Willy_=—A waiter in the Waldorf Flaskoria spilled hot soup
down my neck, and when I remonstrated with him, the horrid old thing
only snapped his fingers at me. Have you any words to describe such
creature?—=_Ferdie Nann._=
I would say that he is too soupercillious.
* * * * *
=_Dear Farmer Bill_=—Why is it you farmers always dress your scarecrows
in men’s clothing?—=_Sack Kitt._=
Well, if we dressed them in women’s clothes there’d be sure to be some
old birds hanging around.
* * * * *
A friend of the Whiz Bang who served with the British forces during the
World War sends us the following, which he claims was a favorite song
among the “Limies.”
When this bloody war is over
Oh, how happy we will be;
No more hiking, no more drilling,
No retreat or reville.
No more shining up brass buttons,
No more asking for a “leave,”
For we’ll tell the sergeant-major
To shove his passes in his sleeve.
* * * * *
_I know a young woman called Kitty._
_In the dance-hall she looks very pretty._
_But the next day at ten,_
_If you saw her then—_
_Oh, my gawd! What a pity!_
* * * * *
Their Specialty
Written by a dealer in electric washing machines:
“Don’t kill your wife. Get one of our machines to do the dirty work.”
* * * * *
Friend tells us that the way Clinton’s in New Haven advertises the record
is: “Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming with Male Chorus, $1.25.” This ad
was evidently written by the gent who said: “I stand back of every bed I
sell.”
* * * * *
With a girl of twenty, marriage is an adventure; at twenty-five, a
career; at thirty, a goal; and at forty, a haven of rest.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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