Terry Gilkison
I guess it's that the older guy is paying the young kid so he can use his sled. When I do it, I get arrested. There seems to be some visual joke where he had a big stomach but then he rode the sled and has a big butt instead. I don't get that part.
He prayed to God and God came. Not much of a joke there, except back when this was done, if somebody mentioned God, they were breaking some taboo of some kind, so I guess it's some kind of “Oh no you didn't” thing.
Richard Guindon
“Oh no you didn't” was basically the attitude of The Realist, and I guess that was supposed to be the joke here too. But is he saying he felt up Ronald Reagan or did he just cop a feel and Reagan was there? Maybe it's that copping a feel is antithetical To Reagan's agenda?
There must have been some controversy at the time about The Saturday Evening Post printing something racy (by Post standards)
He brought a falcon into the strip club to kill the pigeons and that way would get to see her privates. But if he does that than the falcon would attack her as well. If this cartoon were done today the solution to any wish-fullfillment gag would be to that you could just look at nudity on your phone, but even then there would still be easier ways to see nude bodies than resort to such trickery, even if you are a falconer by trade.
Another instance where the cartoonist didn't see the whole situation through. We've seen a variation on this before; the wife has been fooling around with the pizza delivery boy and has been caught in flagrante delicto, so the pizza man must hide out on the building ledge and pretend to be doing something else when found. Here's where I get lost. Why is his scooter out on the ledge too? And why is he holding the pizza upright? And the engine is running on the scooter, so either he must be about to take off (on a building ledge, yet) or he left it running during his intended tryst.
They're saying here only a drunk would do abstract art. The difference between then and now is that the landlady knows what the tenant does. I've lived in buildings for years with the owner having no idea what I did for a living.
Are these supposed to be hearts or asses? I'm going to go with the former, and say it has something to do with Valentine's Day. I'm not 100% sure though.
Eldon Kelley
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I'll chalk this one up to my ignorance of British history.
Saying there can be only one definition of patriotism and what it is depends on the political climate of the time? I guess some things never change.
Another cartoon where getting the joke depends on knowledge of history.
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