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1987: A really useful contribution

He really looks quite smug about it!

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1986: A convenient excuse

‘Computer error’ is a code for human error in programming or data entry. It sounds more impersonal to blame it on the machine. It’s a bit like ‘Act of God.’

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1986: Get the dog to do your dirty work

This is a task that you cannot impose on your secretary. I suppose that this is a fantasy joke.

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I was interested in the name Thigben so I googled it....turns out it's a surname 12,890.741st most common surname in the world....sorry I know it's a useless bit of information

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1991: A foretaste

It certainly seems that homelessness has been around longer than we now realise. Affordable housing was not a government priority by 1991 and the problem has grown ever since.

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1988: Bureaucracy even on a desert island

This cartoon is clearly aimed at the all-pervasive hand of authority. No need to try and figure out who has refused permission in this remote location. Nor try and suggest how the shipwrecked pair could have sent or received such a communication. We should just see this for what it is: a counter blast to pettifogging local authority.

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1988: Against the flow

Over the last thirty years the pervasiveness of advertising has inexorably increased. There are fewer people around now to make such a protest.

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1998: Where are their priorities?

There is a noticeable trend here of Punch cartoons in the nineties that attack big business in all its forms.

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1991: No aliens responsible for this crop circle

Some people managed to believe that crop circles were created by extra-terrestrial aliens. The supermarket trolley would have given them some problems.

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1986: Cynicism in the after-life

The former business tycoon looks unimpressed by what heaven has to offer.