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The Pages of Punch

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Mr Magoo

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19-07-2019, 09:57 AM

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1981: Advice Sought

I suspect that this is a reference to silly questions directed at people who give out advice.

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Mr Magoo

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20-07-2019, 09:41 AM

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1982: Changing the past

Introducing modern concepts into a bygone story is a common theme here. This menacing horseman takes his social worker with him when is a busy marauding.

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Mr Magoo

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21-07-2019, 09:45 AM

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1982: Intrepid country women

How are we to take this? Gormless town dwellers perhaps. What does he mean by horrible? Someone must have thought this was worth publishing.

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Mr Magoo

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22-07-2019, 09:46 AM

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1982: Animal experimenting

It seems that the idea is to discover how well the mice can work their way through a maze. What the boffins are witnessing is flagrant cheating. This initiative should be applauded but is banned because it does not suit the scientists.

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JBR

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22-07-2019, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Magoo ->

The mice will take over the world!

Mr Magoo

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23-07-2019, 09:41 AM

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1981: A thwarted ambition

The joke here is that he claims that he failed as a writer by not joining the Bloomsbury group. In reality you only got to join the group after you had succeeded as a writer.

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Mr Magoo

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24-07-2019, 09:12 AM

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1982: That Christmas party tradition

Here we have a reference to that Christmas party custom when all the norms of behaviour are temporarily suspended. During my 40 working years I never witnessed it. (The last 10 years don’t really count because I was working for myself!)

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JBR

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24-07-2019, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Magoo ->

Oh I remember that sort of thing. One Christmas, at our office party, my immediate boss's head suddenly appeared over the top of a filing cabinet just as HIS boss was making a speech. When a titter went up through his audience, he must have been wondering what the hell he'd said that was so funny!

Mr Magoo

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25-07-2019, 09:24 AM

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1981: Modern Art again…

Debunking ‘modern’ art has been a consistent theme in Punch for a long time. The joke here appears to be that Mr Bradshaw really is a child’s version of a man.

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