Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 30, February, 1922: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyVarious
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 30, February, 1922: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
Various
American wit and humor -- Periodicals
=_Dear Whiz Bang Bill_=—Is there much food values in dates?—=_Ona Dyett_=.
It all depends on who you make them with.
* * * * *
=_Dear Captain_=—What is a Sly Oodle?—=_Nat. U. List_=.
’Tis a small weasel that sleeps in the crotch of a tree, and swallows its
nose to keep it from freezing.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—A fellow asked me a funny question the other day.
Why is a crow? Seems sort of silly. Do you know the answer?—=_M. T.
Kann_=.
That’s easy. Caws.
* * * * *
=_Dear Captain Billy_=—What is a Nabisco?—=_Ray Vaughan_=.
It consists of two pieces of tissue paper with a little honey between.
* * * * *
=_Dear Captain Billy_=—Would it hurt me to sleep between two
windows?—=_I. Foozle_=.
You would have a “pane” on the chest and back, and a “catch” on your side.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—What is a good name for a new college sorority?—=_Al
E. Wrat_=.
I. Phelta Thi.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—What is a sculptor?—=_Cant E. Lope_=.
A man that makes faces and busts.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—What is dust?—=_Hose Ette_=.
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—Is hair tonic a good drink?—=_J. Fewbrains_=.
Would advise you not to drink hair tonic as it will raise a mustache on
your appendix and if you should laugh you would tickle yourself to death.
* * * * *
=_Dear Farmer Bill_=—Please inform me where milk comes from.—=_A City
Girl_=.
From cow faucets.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—If my father was a duke and my mother was a duchess,
what would that make me?—=_Watts D. Yoos_=.
Why, I guess you would be Duke’s Mixture.
* * * * *
=_Dear Captain_=—Tell me something interesting about auction
bridge.—=_Adeline Moore_=.
All we know about is Brooklyn Bridge, and that is just one long suspense.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capn._=—What did my beau mean when he told me he would meet me in
the future?—=_Sarah Desert_=.
Probably he meant in the pasture.
* * * * *
=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—What is a drydock?—=_Torchy_=.
A physician who won’t give us prescriptions.
* * * * *
The Farm That Bull Built
Oh! over the hill to Robbinsdale,
For a slap on the back and a hearty hail.
Where the cows do tricks in the new mown hay,
And the Bull is thrown in a very quaint way.
Where Gus is tired from morn till night,
And the old silo is always tight.
Where the chickens sing and the roosters crow,
And the corn does a hoe-down row on row.
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