Puzzle over these from July, 1995: some LOL, some CIDU, some …?
July is when the new interns typically start in hospitals.
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The first cartoon: the doctor is so clumsy he can’t even tie his necktie.
Bob Plummer
Med school was a blast = I partied my way through med school.
A songbird that sings opera? It’s all I’ve got.
Book sale: Probably making fun of the moral majority.
Faxing: Calling is more personal than a letter. Faxing was replacing letter writing. So this guy is being more person and calling instead of faxing.
Living in NY: Probably just anthropomorphism. It is what dogs would say to each other.
My best guesses. Carl nailed the first one.
Newt Gingrich co-authored an alternate history book titled “1945” around the time of the cartoon. Newt being Newt, we can assume he concentrated on boring policy stuff instead of the human aspect of the novel.
Newt Gingrich is an alternate intelligence.
Yes, the songbird is singing the part of Brunhilde.
I read somewhere that horns on helmets weren’t really a thing in Viking times, but started with the Valkyries in Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen.
The proverbial “fat lady” is singing, only it’s a bird?
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The first cartoon: the doctor is so clumsy he can’t even tie his necktie.
Bob Plummer
Med school was a blast = I partied my way through med school.
A songbird that sings opera? It’s all I’ve got.
Book sale: Probably making fun of the moral majority.
Faxing: Calling is more personal than a letter. Faxing was replacing letter writing. So this guy is being more person and calling instead of faxing.
Living in NY: Probably just anthropomorphism. It is what dogs would say to each other.
My best guesses. Carl nailed the first one.
Newt Gingrich co-authored an alternate history book titled “1945” around the time of the cartoon. Newt being Newt, we can assume he concentrated on boring policy stuff instead of the human aspect of the novel.
Newt Gingrich is an alternate intelligence.
Yes, the songbird is singing the part of Brunhilde.
I read somewhere that horns on helmets weren’t really a thing in Viking times, but started with the Valkyries in Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen.
The proverbial “fat lady” is singing, only it’s a bird?