To avoid duplication. Senior moment!
1982: Jehovah’s Witnesses again
Cancelling implies that they had been booked. Not very likely, surely. The ones that appear at my front door don’t resemble the ones shown here. Ours are all earnest looking women in their thirties I would think. I always politely say ‘no thank you’ and they gratefully go away. Their visits seem to occur three of four times a year.
1982: Unimaginative Sound Effects
They can hardly claim that no animals were harmed in the making of this radio programme. It goes without saying that this is really ….
Excellent
1991: Desert Island Activities
The island is unrealistically small. It can’t sustain life. What effect will the mating season on the birds that surround the castaways? They are not looking forward to it.
1982: A different dog
Somehow that smile is not really reassuring.
1992: What you encounter when the traffic light is set at red
The screen wash offer looks uninviting, but the other offer is positively revolting.
1982: Uncharacteristically considerate judge
He would be much more likely to ‘throw the book’ at the white-collar defendant.
1982: An equality issue
This surely is an attempt to patronise the movement for women’s equality. It is not particularly strident but it is a little dig all the same.
1983: A reminder from the cold war
The artist hasn’t understood the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (neatly summarised as MAD.) In this imaginary scenario the incoming nuclear warheads would already have blown the speaker to smithereens before he could view ‘ours’ winging their way to Moscow etc.
1991: Nursery Rhyme Brought Up to Date
In the initial story she was the woman who lived in a shoe, who had so many children she didn’t know what to do. In the modern version she knew exactly what to do. She is going to trade up to a multi storey Wellington Boot! That way all her children would have a room of their own.
I imagine that athlete’s foot was supposed to represent rising damp.
We’ve had that one!
Very good, though. Keep posting them.
1983: Modern Art once again
Here the cartoonist is implying that the museum is inviting the public to ‘create’ works of art by throwing away their litter. This debunking of modern art has been a consistent theme in the pages of Punch since the early Victorian days.
I applaud modern artists.
They have found an easy way to make money.
It’s the people who buy their rubbish who need their heads examining!
1982: Courtesy in Hell
The mediaeval depictions of Hell never envisaged this degree of polite reasoning.
1983: No arrest on this occasion
Once again, the forces of law and order have been taken in.
1991: Right to bear arms
This surely is an American joke. The point appears to be that Tel is focussing on the word ‘hunting’ and is ignoring the word that precedes it.