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
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American wit and humor -- Periodicals
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_The most disgusting sight in the world is to see another fellow in an
automobile with your best girl._
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The old inhabitant says, “I kin remember when a young lady passed you,
you always could hear the rustle of stiffly starched skirts.”
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Naughty Egg
I wish I was a crow’s egg
As bad as bad can be,
All cuddled up in a little nest
Way up in a big tree.
And when a grinning little boy
Looked up at me in glee,
I’d bust my naughty little self
And sprinkle him with me.
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The Diamond Queen
Now on one hand she has an immense fortune and on the other hand she has
warts.
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When a girl casts her bread upon the waters, she expects it to come back
in the shape of a wedding cake.
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_One of the season’s popular football rooters’ song is that old familiar
ballad “After the Ball.”_
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The Hootch Hound’s Lament
It’s easy to stay two-thirds pickled all day,
Get drunk and sleep out in the yard,
But to put in a night without one drink in sight;
It’s the getting back sober that’s hard.
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Love is a hallucination that makes an otherwise sane man believe he can
set up housekeeping on a gas stove and a canary bird.
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St. Paul Blues
_When I’m dead bury me deep,_
_Bury me in the middle of St. Peter street;_
_Put my hands across my chest_
_And tell the girls I’ve gone to rest._
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_“What a curve,” said the garter, as it came around the last stretch._
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Many a girl who never had her ears pierced has frequently had them bored.
_Movie Hot Stuff_
Mrs. Juanita M. Cohen has filed a heart-balm suit for $50,000 against
Jackie Saunders for the loss of the love and affection of J. Warde Cohen,
her husband. Jackie affirms that Mr. Cohen has no love for his wife and
that no pretty stranger can steal anything which doesn’t exist. Jackie
and her lawyers cite several scenes that have taken place between the
Cohens, all to prove that the little God Eros was not about. Rather a
clever way to turn the matter about, Jackie!
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At several recent parties and dinners attended by film stars and given
since the Arbuckle affair has been disclosed, the picture people have not
refused cocktails or wine offered by the host. The picture people have
been drinking their cocktails with a bit of defiance as if to show the
world that “there are plenty of us who can drink with moderation and do
nothing to hurt our neighbor or disgrace the community.”
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