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1981: Is there a hidden meaning?

There surely must be a hidden meaning here. Is it perhaps an alternative to the elephant in the room?
Or a variant of the dead cat stratagem whereby a dead cat is thrown onto the table to divert attention away from something unpleasant?
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1981: The master key

It has been made to look like a conventional key. But the important thing is its role as a battering ram. Another case of putting modern concepts into a scene meant to be placed in the past.


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1981: His Master’s Smell

A dog listening to a gramophone was a very well-known advertisement for HMV. This joke links that icon with the glue sniffing epidemic that was very common at the time.
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Got that wrong! Try again

I'm having a problem here. Please watch this space.
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28-06-2019, 09:51 AM
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Got that wrong! Try again

I'm having a problem here. Please watch this space.
Too much glue-sniffing?
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28-06-2019, 09:55 AM
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Too much glue-sniffing?
That's what it looks like. Try once more:

1981: His Master’s Smell

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28-06-2019, 01:21 PM
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That's what it looks like. Try once more:

1981: His Master’s Smell

A dog listening to a gramophone was a very well-known advertisement for HMV. This joke links that icon with the glue sniffing epidemic that was very common at the time.
The dog probably liked the combined scent of old dust and Bakelite 78s!
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29-06-2019, 09:45 AM
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1981: Medical trickery

Having prescribed a placebo, the doctor is not worried about side effects because they can’t be real. Not the kind of joke that we would expect to see in the pages of Punch.


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1981: Not exotic at all

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The name also evokes the imagery of the exoticism of the Orient.

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Imagine their disappointment that their arduous journey has brought them to something utterly ordinary.


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1981: Not exotic at all

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The name also evokes the imagery of the exoticism of the Orient.

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Imagine their disappointment that their arduous journey has brought them to something utterly ordinary.



Just goes to show:-

There's no place like home despite you thinking the grass is always greener.
Other combinations of metaphors are available.
 
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