Punch, v250 #6
The Realist, August 1964
The Realist, March 1966
Playboy, February 1968
Does he want to screw his daughter? Ewww.
Wildcat, May 1968
The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)
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A literary magazine whose criterion for acceptance was simple: each piece
had to have been previously rejected.
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1. That one took me a while. The joke is that there is lewd graffiti in restrooms. And that the lewd, modern graffiti is lewder than the cave paintings.
ReplyDelete2. He’s getting or just got married and is already looking at other women. The official is calling him out on it, saying that were he (officiant) a woman he would not be interested in the lewd man as a relationship partner.
3. The horses are NOT listening to the soldiers, because the soldiers (accustomed to swearing at the horses when giving commands) have moderated their language in the presence of the man of the cloth. When he moves off (out of earshot) they will be able to swear again.
4. He’s wearing a pilgrim hat. The Slough of Despond is from Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” Here is another https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitZoom/mw61596/Charles-James-Fox-The-slough-of-despond
5. I’m guessing this is Thatcher era England? Jobcenteres is the government unemployment service, where people would go to get assistance finding jobs. Thatcher introduced a lot of privitiasation of government services, and here we see the “find a job” guy out on the street working a crap “job”
6. Russel Harty was a TV interview host. Here, he’s showing up at the last supper, hence needing 14 place settings. (12 disciples + Jesus (w/ halo), and Harty).
7. The man has “coach” and the kid has a bag with “Saturday Evening Post” on it. From what I could find out, I think it refers to this “The magazine's publisher, Curtis Publishing Company, lost a landmark defamation suit, Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts 388 U.S. 130 (1967),[8] resulting from an article, and was ordered to pay $3,060,000 in damages to the plaintiff. The Post article implied that football coaches Paul "Bear" Bryant and Wally Butts conspired to fix a game between the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. Both coaches sued Curtis Publishing Co. for defamation, each initially asking for $10 million. Bryant eventually settled for $300,000, while Butts' case went to the Supreme Court, which held that libel damages may be recoverable (in this instance against a news organization) when the injured party is a non-public official, if the plaintiff can prove that the defendant was guilty of a reckless lack of professional standards when examining allegations for reasonable credibility. (Butts was eventually awarded $460,000.)” From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post
8. Conductor is performing for the camera, not actually conducting the orchestra.
9. Kind of stumped here. My guess is it’s just a “the woman wants sex, but the man does not” inversion trope. Could be a reference to Caesar and Cleopatra. “Sheathing the dagger” COULD be a euphemism for having sex (if so, rather clever as the word vagina is from the latin for “scabbard or sheath.”
10. ? He’s a nautical man: captain hat, sailor beard, peg leg, tattoo. Maybe it’s a brothel, and he’s one of the prostitutes in a “hello sailor” kind of way?
11. ? There are both men’s and women’s clothing. He looks sad. They are at the beach, and maybe she dug a stairway to get away from him? Stumped.
12. No. They’re just uptight and hide bound. They’re not going to talk about that at DINNER. Just where such talk “belongs.” You’d actually see quite a lot of that in Edwardian and Victorian culture where there were very distinct boundaries between where/when/what could be appropriate.
13. Ah. Having the annoying musician follow you around is still common. Go to a Mexican place with a live mariachi band for a date and they will stick to you like glue. Because they know that someone on a date is going to try to impress, and they will then get paid more. THIS musician has decided to stick around LONG after the date has ended and they’re back at the bedroom.