Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 28, December, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyVarious
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 28, December, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
Various
American wit and humor -- Periodicals
The other day a stranger walked up and asked me if I was a doctor. I
informed him that I wasn’t, but that I thought I knew where he could get
some.
* * * * *
Some women get red in the face from modesty, some from anger, and some
from the druggist.
* * * * *
Pour Her Back Into the Ocean
She wiggled, she waddled,
She leapt and she toddled;
She shivered, she quivered, she shook.
She rippled, she trippled,
She sprang and she skippled—
Her dance was “The Song of the Brook.”
* * * * *
The Song of a Sailor
“_There’s just one Gal in Galveston, but there’s More in Baltimore._”
* * * * *
I went into a restaurant. I said, “Have you got anything fit for a hog to
eat?”
He said, “Yes, what do you want?”
* * * * *
When a married man gets his hair cut, his wife loses her strongest hold
on him.
* * * * *
The barber has a scraping acquaintance with a great many people.
* * * * *
Essence of Sweet Peas
“The mean old thing wouldn’t lettuce.”
“Can we take a little spin-ach?”
“No, I’ll see my car-rot first.”
* * * * *
There is something mysteriously attractive about all mysteries—except
hash.
* * * * *
_A request has come from a Philadelphia reader that all our jokes be
written on tissue paper so that he can see through them._
* * * * *
May Have Better Luck
(From Sedalia Correspondence of Rogers Democrat)
Mrs. Albert Evans didn’t have good luck with her incubator. She had only
thirty little chicks, but she is undaunted and she is setting again.
* * * * *
Mary wears her new short skirt,
Cut just about in half;
Who cares a slam ’bout Mary’s lamb,
Now we can see her calf?
* * * * *
The woman with a past is always glad to see a man with a present.
* * * * *
The Latest Song “Hit”
By A. Balland Batt.
“When the Baseball season starts, Sweetheart, I’ll be running home to
you.”
* * * * *
_Miss Marrietta Nutt will now render the latest “catch”. “The toy shop
business is booming since they show their Teddy bears.”_
* * * * *
We Expect a Free Can For This!
_I saw a girl the other day who was so bashful she asked for a lady clerk
when she wanted to buy some Arbuckle’s coffee._
* * * * *
The Happy Ham
_All smokers are inveterate;_
_Their vice becomes inured,_
_Only a ham can smoke and smoke,_
_And smoking still be cured._
* * * * *
I kicked a mongrel cur,
He uttered a mournful wail.
Where did I kick him, Sir?
Ah! Thereby hangs a tail.
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