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1936: The French!

Words are not necessary in this strip cartoon. In reality the French Customs Officers would certainly be aware of this English sport.


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1936: The French!

Words are not necessary in this strip cartoon. In reality the French Customs Officers would certainly be aware of this English sport.
The only civilised countries in this world are those where cricket is played.
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1934: A mixed message

The husband assumes that the woman seated next to him is complaining whereas she is simply making polite conversation. However we can see the wife holding forth in the background. Perhaps the husband feels that his comment was needed.


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1938: An independent recommendation

Commissionaires used to be considered to be a necessary adjunct to a cinema. I don’t know when they were no longer needed. The growing number of television sets no doubt is responsible. I think they were usually retired sergeant majors or Chief Petty Officers.


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13-12-2017, 10:32 AM
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1938: War is round the corner

We know it for a fact, though ‘they’ couldn’t – the war was coming.

So much is clear. But who is speaking and what precisely is the point of this particular joke? Is it the passive man in the armchair or the butch woman with her back to the fire place? My guess he is speaking and telling her that Hitler is not a person to be ‘hailed’. I also think that the point is that even former admirers are coming to the reluctant conclusion that he has to be opposed and only war will remove him.


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1938: No earphones

The children have no choice. Their mother appears to be a Wagnerian judging by the portrait on the left.


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1939: Masking one’s feelings

We observe true feelings that have been completely masked.


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1939: Young man’s lament

Of course, Dad IS living in 1939.

His plus fours signal his retirement. His slender son’s lament makes us wonder what it is that makes him feel so despondent. There’s the forthcoming war, obviously. Otherwise it doesn’t look that bleak for him.


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Nothing's changed - today's youth also consider themselves badly done to.
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Nothing's changed - today's youth also consider themselves badly done to.
Yes, perhaps that young lad in the cartoon was the very first snowflake, decades before the term was even coined!
 
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