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Mizzoualumnimagsummer2006 ow me Student jokesters tickled funny bones as they ruffled feathers. Missouri Showme covers caused a stir with themes such as the " Election Issue," the "Sex Issue" and the "Hangover Issue." Not shown are such doozies as the "Get Your Hand Out of My Stocking, It Isn't Christmas Yet Issue." For more Showme gags - in cartoon and joke form - see the following pages. 16 111 ZZO I SUMMER 2006 ith a sly wink and a salacious nudge, Wthe long-gone campus humor magazine Missouri Showme tried just about everything to unn get Mizzou students to crack a smile. Funny thing, though - MU bigwigs weren't amused. Story by John Beahler More than one Showme editor paid a visit to the dean's woodshed, and gaps in the magazine's archives testify to all the times administrators suspended publication during its on-again, off-again existence from 1920 through the early 1960s. SUMMER 2006 HIZZ OU 17 he campu brass may have Middle bush - Showme writers delighted T frowned on Showme, but Mizzou in calling the president "Centershrub" tudent got the joke. After all, - that the campus publications board had why wouldn't sophomoric humor appeal to dismissed another editor. "We will always ophomores - and to freshmen, juniors and have trouble with Showme, I am sure," Brady eniors? Showme's writers milked campus wrote, "but we may be able, gradually, to sacred cows for laughs. Its cartoons glee­ change its nature." Not a chance; the staff fully pointed out that not only did the was having too much fun. emperor have no clothes, but he al o had a pimple on his rear end. Sometimes the gags were Students scrambled to buy copies when Showme hit the street each month. a little blue, but it was all Administrators held their breath to see what the magazine's staff had pulled this time. meant in good fun. "They may not be fire hydrants, "A oon a we put an issue out, it was gone. but I think they have more c"Ca.ss" Zip - it sold out immediately," says former Several former Showme staffers still November 1960 editor Marion Ellis, BJ '61, of Charlotte, N.C. wonder what all the fuss was about. Their Ellis had his own run-in with campus material really was pretty tame compared authorities soon after he became editor with today's tabloid and TV fare. "It wasn't in 1960. For a satire on men's magazines, very sophisticated by mature standards, but he published an article about a fictitious to the audience at which it was aimed, it was housemother at a women's dorm. Its title funny stuff," says Charles Barnard, BJ '49, wa "I Was Trapped Inside Johnston Hall by who edited the magazine in 1948. "College a Love-Hungry Goddess." students are a self-absorbed bunch, and we "Black Jack" Matthews, MU's stern dean played to their self-absorption. of students, demanded that Ellis disclose "We weren't trying to be troublemakers the author's name. He refused. Blackjack in those days. We were in a hurry to get on threatened him with expulsion. Ellis still with our lives. We weren't yet in our gray refused, so Matthews briefly closed down flannel suits, but that's where we were the magazine. "There wasn't any appeal, and headed." the article really was so mild," Ellis says. There were a few recurring themes It wasn't the fust time the administra­ among Showme's running gags: beer, bone­ ''Those two are made for each tion tried to let the magazine know who headed professors, beer, bosomy babes and other." October 1949 was boss. In the late '40s, Dean ofExtra­ husband-hunting Stephens College coeds, Divisional Administration Tom Brady frat-house humor, beer and amorous out­ reported to University President Frederick ings to Hinkson Creek, a favorite student "trs OK-I've had my flu shat." eb1u.ary 1949 Febru.ary 1949 ia ~IZZ O I' SUMMER 2006 Her dress was tight - She scarce could breathe She sneezed aloud And there stood Eve. (March 1941) Funny! A woman will wear an evening gown and not care to dance; a golf outfit when she doesn't know how to play; a swimming suit when she can't swim. But when she gets a wedding dress, she means business. (January 1945) "If a man put a hundred dollars in the bank twenty years ago," says Henry Gunnison Smith, "it would amount to almost two hundred dollars now and would buy nearly as much as the original one hundred dollars that he saved twenty years ago." (January 1945) "He's the best· ancient history instructor He was so bashful, he took the school has ever had." February 1961 mistletoe along on his honeymoon. (November 1947) "I studied abroad for a year, and then I married her." (May 1948) "My roommate fell downstairs last night with a fifth of whiskey." "Did he spill any?" "No, he kept his mouth dosed." (May1948) Prof: "I believe you missed my class yesterday." Student: "Why, no, I didn't. Not in the least." (January 1949) He: "Do you neck?" She: "That's my business!" He: "Oh, a professional." (February 1949) He broke it fighting for my honor - I slammed the car ·cloor on it. April 1955 SUMMER 2006 HIZZOt 19 make-out spot. It was self-policing in a way. Any newcomer Was Showme a sexist publication? who couldn't keep up with this witty, crazy Probably, but you have to consider the group soon sought other company." times, says Judy Jenkins Thomasson, Administrators viewed Mort Walker, BJ '56, MA '60, of St. Louis. "Everything was BA '48, who later created Beetle Bailey and "Is my face dirty or is it my imagination?" sexist then; life was sexist. You just kind of other nationally syndicated comic strips, "Your face is clean; I don't know about brushed it off," she says. "Even to be on the as the evil genius behind Showme's post­ your imagination." staff was a feather in my cap because not World War II renaissance. Walker, who (November 1949) many females made it." drew cartoons and covers and edited the Thomasson was Showme's joke editor in magazine in 1947, actually was more like a Blessed are the censors for they shall the early 'sos. Just about every university pen-wielding pied piper who led this band inhibit the earth. (February 1950) had a humor magazine in those days, and of jokers on a merry frolic across campus. her job was to go through them and other At the dawn of the Cold War, when state Officer: "Are you happy now that you are publications to "filch" the funniest jokes, legislators thundered about pinko profes­ in the Navy?" she says. "I think we even got down to sors and left-leaning students, Showme Boot: "Yes sir." Reader's Digest." printed Walker's cartoon that showed an Officer: "What were you before you got Sometimes the gags were a little American government class at MU as the into the Navy?" blue, but it was all meant in good fun. lawmakers imagined it: a professor with Boot: "Much happier." What Thomasson remembers best is the the face of Joseph Stalin lecturing to a hall (February 1950) camaraderie oflike-minded mavericks who filled with students who also looked like worked on Showme. She especially recalls the Stalin. Administrators got wind of the gag "Hello, want a ride?" raucous, freewheeling staff meetings at the and ordered staff members to pull out the "No, thanks, I'm walking home from one Shack. "It was what we looked forward to in offending pages before that issue could go now." (February 1950) life; it was a gas," Thomasson says. on sale. Whenever the crew got together for meet­ Loren Reid, professor emeritus of If young girls stay out late, drink, smoke ings, it became "show-off time," Barnard communication, headed MU's publications and pet, men will call them fast ... as fast says. "Anyone who had an idea for a joke, board during those days, and he still recalls as they can get to a phone. (January 1955) a cartoon, a crazy cover or a center spread riding herd on the gang from Showme. He put it forth. Looking now at the names on remembers one issue that caused particular All men were born free, but only ath­ our masthead in those days, I recall a smart, headaches. The cover showed a harried male letes can go through college that way. wacky, uninhibited and yes, funny bunch. student sweeping a pile of contraband that (January 1955) Wife: (To drunken husband) Dear, let's go to bed. Husband: Might as well. I'll catch hell when I get home anyway. (February 1955) Susie: Daddy, there's a girl in my biology class who has a hat just like mine. Dad : So I suppose you want me to buy you a new one? Susie: That would be cheaper than me changing schools. (February 1955) "Sir, may I have your daughter for my wife?" "Bring your wife around, and we'll see." (March 1955) "She oticko lo the foo1ball te•m; ohe ""n't remember nameo !" October 19-41 20 MIZZIU SUMMER 2006 BLOOD+ SANK November 1949 /llS~Y ... - "Whaddaya mean, overdrawn?" February 1961 3.A.M ~~;,~'\;,d); · 0 "°" "Of course we can't be positive, But from what we know of the previous inhabitants, I think we can safely assume a phallic significance." February 1955 January 1956 SUMMER 2006 MIZZOU 21 included a condom package under his bed cartoon, and it ran in newspapers all across before his parents arrived for a visit.
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