Bullshit, Balderdash, and Backtalk!
I’m currently engaged in the Sisyphean task of scanning Bohiney Magazine issues dating back to 1947—because apparently, historical satire doesn’t digitize itself. Each issue takes longer than a DMV visit, but the payoff? Future readers will marvel at how our grandparents mocked the same political nonsense we mock today, just with better hats and more cigarettes. It’s like carbon-dating comedy: discovering that absurdity is timeless, formatting is hell, and nothing says “productive afternoon” like cataloging seventy-eight-year-old satrical news. History repeats itself. So does my scanner’s jamming error message.
BOHINEY MAGAZINE America's Journal of Common Sense Issue No. 31 | Saturday, September 13, 1947 | Washington, D.C. | Price: 15¢ Nehru Proposes Moving Four Million People, Calls It "Population Exchange" Instead of
Bohiney Magazine Volume 1, Issue 3 - Saturday, March 1, 1947 "America's Trusted Source for Satirical Truth" National Emergency Declared as Americans Forget Why They Walked Into Room WASHINGTON, DC - The Surgeon General
Bohiney Magazine Volume 1, Issue 8 - Saturday, April 5, 1947 "America's Trusted Source for Satirical Truth" Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball's Color Barrier While Commentators Debate Whether He Can "Handle the Pressure" BROOKLYN, NY
BOHINEY America's Journal of Common Sense Max Planck Dies, Takes Quantum Physics Secrets With Him Because Nobody Understood Them Anyway German Physicist Who Discovered Atoms Don't Follow Rules Leaves Scientists Still Arguing About