Flipping madly through the book to see whether Larry included "Lassie, get help!" which is an excellent candidate. And I love that you knew the Anubith one- there is actually a small sub-subgenre of New Yorker cartoon (meaning, there are 4 that I know of) in which the butt of the joke is the Egyptian cobra god Wadjet with a speech impediment. I had all 4 on my fridge for a while, and then it just felt cruel. Poor Wadjet! See you Frizzlitting soon, Mary? xo
My favorite (it's from long ago b/c I had it in my pocket at my sister's wedding in about 1982 and my other sister and I were laughing to hard during the ceremony that our Norwegian grandmother slapped us to make us stop laughing - it didn't work). A hot dog opening his mail, a big envelope that says "You may already be a wiener!" OMG it still makes me howl. I didn't know it but I've seen many of Larry Woods's contributions to the caption contest! Book will be in my hands soon.
YES at least the cartoons. Also can we just agree that slapping girls in their 20s when they are laughing at an excellent caption has no chance whatever of stopping the laughter. . . NO CHANCE. (She was the rare very mean Norwegian grandmother. . .)
My personal mean grandmother was, I suspect, seriously mentally ill, full of grievances and searches for revenge. and many of the grievances were totally invented in her mind. but she was just as mean as someone who had genuine grievances. All of the Norwegians I grew up surrounded by - across the road, at church, at piano lessons - were really scary. But my friend Heidi's father wasn't mean, he was way cool and he painted the top of the Space Needle in 1961 w/a rope tied around his waist. Not mean. There is a lot of Protestant sternness involved in being Norwegian, I'd say.
“Anubith…” is my second-place favorite. First place is “Lassie, go get help!”
Flipping madly through the book to see whether Larry included "Lassie, get help!" which is an excellent candidate. And I love that you knew the Anubith one- there is actually a small sub-subgenre of New Yorker cartoon (meaning, there are 4 that I know of) in which the butt of the joke is the Egyptian cobra god Wadjet with a speech impediment. I had all 4 on my fridge for a while, and then it just felt cruel. Poor Wadjet! See you Frizzlitting soon, Mary? xo
My favorite (it's from long ago b/c I had it in my pocket at my sister's wedding in about 1982 and my other sister and I were laughing to hard during the ceremony that our Norwegian grandmother slapped us to make us stop laughing - it didn't work). A hot dog opening his mail, a big envelope that says "You may already be a wiener!" OMG it still makes me howl. I didn't know it but I've seen many of Larry Woods's contributions to the caption contest! Book will be in my hands soon.
no! wait! It was 1972. . . how time flies!
Your Norwegian grandmother slapping you--omg. Can we just agree that The New Yorker is the thinking person's MAD magazine?
YES at least the cartoons. Also can we just agree that slapping girls in their 20s when they are laughing at an excellent caption has no chance whatever of stopping the laughter. . . NO CHANCE. (She was the rare very mean Norwegian grandmother. . .)
Claire, if you wrote a book-length meditation on slapping, I would read that thing annually.
hahahahahahaha. maybe a graphic meditation on slapping. although in my secret heart I have a kind of taxonomy of slapping tools, from feathers to 2x4s
SPEECHLESS and also I think you just defined BDSM
and what's with the mean Norwegians? I've had my experiences. It's such a nice place, and so pretty, too!
My personal mean grandmother was, I suspect, seriously mentally ill, full of grievances and searches for revenge. and many of the grievances were totally invented in her mind. but she was just as mean as someone who had genuine grievances. All of the Norwegians I grew up surrounded by - across the road, at church, at piano lessons - were really scary. But my friend Heidi's father wasn't mean, he was way cool and he painted the top of the Space Needle in 1961 w/a rope tied around his waist. Not mean. There is a lot of Protestant sternness involved in being Norwegian, I'd say.