Editor ZBicyclist is on vacation, and taking a cue from comics that repeat old episodes is dipping back into the past: June 2021. This was originally posted by EditorM.
Sent by a very puzzled Harvey Heilbrun.
(We haven’t featured In The Bleachers very often.)
Editor ZBicyclist is on vacation, and taking a cue from comics that repeat old episodes is dipping back into the past: June 2021. This was originally posted by EditorM. Is modal fabric still around?
I only recently learned there is a newfangled fabric called “modal”, popular for linens[*] and underwear; which mostly explains the modal-logic joke for me. But some of the rest of these are still puzzling.
[*] No, linens are not presumptively made from linen. Though they can be. Oy!
Some cartoons from the 1926 sesquicentennial.
Well, that was a bust. From the point of view of New Yorker cartoons, the sesquicentennial was a non-event. That “Third of July” cartoon could have been done any year.
But as long as I’m here in the archive, let’s take a look at Central Park, 100 years ago. No gags here, just Helen E. Hopkinson’s observations.
JMcAndrew sends this in: “I have no idea what the joke here is. It’s a snowman with a top hat and black cape and the crows like him because they are also black? Why is there fire?”
Most people who remember playing “Kick the Can” have, in fact, kicked the bucket.
Job skills for the coming economy — or at least coming years of education.
Is hell organized as a sole proprietorship?
Mitch4 sends this in. The patient has had a checkered career.
Mitch4 sends this in:
Probably missing some weak pun here.
Kedamono sends this in: “Nothing Horace the Horse did in the first two panels would have resulted in the third…”
Boise Ed sends this in: “Here’s nother imaginative use of the Fourth Wall idea.”
I seem to remember Dagwood used to talk to the dog for this type of monologue, not directly to the reader.
Boise Ed notes, “You don’t get much more fourth-wall than this one.”
JMcAndrew sends this in: “Why can’t the cat go to the office? Did Ziggy somehow cause the cat to become pregnant and he’s worried about the legal consequences?”
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