Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 25, October, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyVarious
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 25, October, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
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American wit and humor -- Periodicals
_Yours for safety first,_
_Bilious Billy._
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Do you need any typewriter supplies? Yes, send me two pounds of candy and
a box of chewing gum.
* * * * *
About the only amusement women appear to have nowadays is smoking
cigarettes, shaking the shimmy, and shooting their husbands.
* * * * *
=_We wonder where the pictures that used to hang in the bar rooms are
now?_=
* * * * *
Here It Is Again
Don’t bother bringing in the firewood, Mother. Father will be home with a
load.
* * * * *
Me friend Mulligan says wan time whin two heads are not better than wan
is whin you wake up the morning after the night before.
* * * * *
=_Said our pet pole cat to his pretty pal: “Now, dearie, do not be so
high toned that you can’t use common sense.”_=
* * * * *
Talk about your nice dispositions—we have a man in our town who retires
early rather than keep the bedbugs waiting for supper.
* * * * *
_Has anyone heard that little ballad entitled “Who shot Nellie in the
freckle?”_
* * * * *
What could be sweeter than the rib music of choir-practors.
* * * * *
Fair Dancer—Say, walk over your own feet!
He—What do you think I am, a cross-country runner?
* * * * *
Button up your mouth, boys, you’ve ingrown heels.
* * * * *
Today in History
They were married and lived snappily ever after.
* * * * *
_It takes a tough bird to eat currents off a live wire._
* * * * *
A North Pole Ad
(From Charlotte, N. C., Paper)
To Sublet—Heated apartment for July and August.
* * * * *
“So you’ve been to Paris? How did you like the Eifel Tower?”
“Eifel Tower? Huh, I didn’t have my eyes more than two feet off the
ground all the time I was there.”
* * * * *
In Our Barn Yard
In she came;
Down she sot;
Laid a little egg,
And up she got.
* * * * *
“The MISERY of a CHILD—is interesting to a MOTHER!
“The MISERY of a YOUNG MAN—is interesting to a YOUNG WOMAN!
“The MISERY of an OLD MAN—is interesting to NOBODY!”
* * * * *
Roses are rare,
Violets are few,
I sure picked a lemon,
When I got you.
* * * * *
Joe’s a Gentleman
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