When I posted one of these as an LOL, I noticed there were no previous tags of this comic, and the archive on Comics Kingdom only goes back to December, 2024. So, all new to me, at least. Here’s the blurb on the Comics Kingdom site:
“TBD (Toons by Dan) is a curated collection of single-panel cartoons by award-winning cartoonist Dan Misdea. Featuring some of his best, worst, and weirdest ideas, this series includes never-before-seen cartoons, once rejected by The New Yorker and beyond. Now, they’ve been reimagined and redrawn in a familiar, timeless format for your enjoyment. “
I thought this was a variation of the old joke / soap opera premise in which the mother is shown to have been unfaithful, since 2 + 5 <> 6. But they are laughing in the last panel.
Tomorrow is our 50th wedding anniversary, so indulge your editor.
I clipped this cartoon out of The New Yorker many years ago, and it hung in my home office. I recommend it as good marital advice.
From The New Yorker in December, 1975, back when a stack of back print issues of that magazine sat in the corner of our apartment. Just a bit of a CIDU.
Just as in TV shows and movies, we don’t see people on the toilet, there must be part of the Santa experience they don’t show.
Santa – the true story
Yes, Fuzzy Math Gurus, there is a Santa Claus.
There are “facts” floating around the internet, “proving” that one Santa just couldn’t do it all, but they fail too see the obvious conclusion — FRANCHISING! This also explains why “Santa” is often known as “Santa Claus”.
Let me explain:
1. Yes, it’s true Santa would need to make 822.6 visits per second, or 2,961,360 per hour. However, if we assume that there are 740,340 worldwide Santas (the exact number is known only to the Salvation Army), then each Santa has to make 1 visit only every 15 minutes.
2. Roughly speaking, this is
5 minutes for travel (footnote below) 1 minute for sorting out that house’s gifts 1 minute for chimney diving / lock picking 3 minutes for gift arranging 2 minutes for cookie eating 1 minute for exiting premises and returning to sleigh 2 minutes “slack” time for unforseen events (most commonly, large dogs) — 15 minutes
3. “Santa” is, of course, a very sought after title, and the geographic franchises to be the local “Santa” are subject to yearly adjustments due to population shifts. The changes in the legal paragraphs governing geographic territories in the “Santa” agreement are called “Santa Clauses”, a term which eventually has been commonly applied to “Santas” themselves.
Thanks for the opportunity to clear this up.
Footnote: The travel time has been reduced considerably in this century by the use of “jet sleighs” manufactured by Boeing. The original model 7 sleigh, in fact, is what gave the Boeing corporation its name. Elves, noticing how the new sleighs (with, sadly, aluminum reindeer) bounced from housetop to housetop, cheered “Boing! Boing!”, which in an Elvin accent sounded like “Boeing! Boeing!”.
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