Judge, 1928-12-01 · page 23 of 36
Judge — December 1, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief humorous anecdotes and jokes from college students (Yale, Harvard, Lafayette, Pittsburgh, Michigan), typical of Judge's humor section. The content reflects 1930s collegiate wit: **The jokes mock:** - Get-rich-quick schemes (wild-cat oil stocks, subway investments) - Marital dynamics (the Scottish husband buying his wife erasable paper plates) - Failed business ventures (doughnut bakery "went in the hole") **"The Old-Timer" section** is nostalgic satire about recent past trends now deemed outdated: Calvin Coolidge's presidency, silent films, the "Varsity Drag" dance craze, and rolled stockings. The final quip—that humorous magazines "didn't print stuff like this"—is self-aware mockery of Judge's own declining humor quality. **The main cartoon** shows slapstick physical comedy of figures tumbling, captioned with a restaurant joke about a customer asking to "look" at spinach—crude wordplay typical of 1930s vaudeville-influenced humor. The page is primarily entertainment for college-educated readers, reflecting mid-Depression-era campus humor.
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“Someone told me you made Aye, There’s the Rub million out of a wild-cat oil stock oy * I didn't believe it was possible.” Then there's the one about the “Well. You sce, I was the fel. Scotchman who bought his wife a low who sold it.” set of paper plates and an eraser. —Raovr Brumnerc, —Riciany A. Harrsr, Yale '29 Lafayette '30 “DENT ] invested in a subicay, and it went under. 2xp) Ture Well, mine started a doughnut bakery, and went in the hole, —F. R. MeFrarrers, Pittsburgh ’31 The Old-Timer He sighs for the good old days: When crossword puzzles were a fad. When Fords were called tin lizzies. When ‘Whoopee! was a cow- boy shout. When Coolidge was the Presi- dent of the United States. When the movies were silent and good. When the Varsity Drag was slang for partiality shown to a football player. When girls wore stockings. When humorous magazines were funny and didn’t print stuff like this. —Antivr Sinvenntatr, Harvard '30 You've never heard this before because I just twiddled it out of the tickety-tick ding; and what's more, you'll never want to again, It seems they was a vy walks into a restaurant and asks the frail behind the counter to sug- gest something to cat. “Can I interest. you in. some spinach?” ys the broad, all unthinking. “I \ dunno,” responds the palooka, | / / % “slip into some and leave us have a look,” —Gerxev Wittians, ss me again-nn-n! U. of Mich, ’31 T. M. Founs, Yale '30 comicbooks.com