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You are correct! Senior moment alert. The system hasn’t worked.

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1963: Estate Agent at work realtor

Making the best of a bad job.

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Typical estate agent. The type who describes local knife crime in an area as vibrant.

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1964: A different kind of western

Look carefully at what these protagonists are holding in their hands. See also what is coming down from the sky.

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We should send that to the little boy in the USA who just managed to change the law in the small town where he lives....so now children can legally have a snowball fight

Better than guns

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1965: Wrong address

The seated man looks very much like a curmudgeon.

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1979: Cash

This looks as though the man needs to make a payment that is anonymous. (I think we know why!) I assume that American Express were producing adverts about what having their credit card said about them.

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1969: An overdose of American films

These boys are all wearing their school caps. I do question whether that was authentic by 1969. I was wearing mine until 1949 when I happily disposed of it on leaving school. Twenty years later at the tail end of the swinging sixties? I very much doubt it.

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I left school in 1968 and I remember that we were obliged to wear ours at the time.

Still, we're a bit backward up here in the frozen North!

An interesting discussion for another thread, I think!

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Perhaps they are public schoolboys which would suit the demographic of Punch readers at the time? Having said that, I used to have a subscription to Punch but wasn't and aren't posh.

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Another possibility is that the cartoonist was not concerned with current practice and was simply influenced by his boyhood experiences.