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1960: Another Prison Joke

Prison wouldn’t be much of a deterrent under the circumstances.

I don’t think that the uniform is correct for 1960.
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1960: Rectification Needed

The passer-by is clearly mystified by the incorrect name of the organization so the call really is urgent. What is the CAB person worried about? Surely it isn’t members of the public turning up and demanding vice.
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1960: That’s Who I Am

I am rather puzzled as to what the joke really is here.

The obvious solution is surely that he must be called by this anonymous pseudonym then it must be for a good reason. The effect of this has now been lost by blurting it out so casually.

That may not be what the joke is really about but I can’t find any other explanation.
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1960: Wedgwood Benn Renounces Peerage

Antony Wedgwood Benn (as he was then known) had finally managed to rid himself of an inherited peerage which he hadn’t sought and which prevented him from sitting in the House of Commons. The cartoonist seems to be saying why bother with the Commons when the Lords is the better place to sit.

Nowadays you can actually be a peer and sit in the Commons and no-one thinks that the Lords is the better place.

Tony Benn (as he was later known) ceased being an M.P. in order ‘to spend more time with politics’ and became a national treasure before he died..
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1960: Junior Critic

Precocious children are usually a good source of humour. It appears not to have occurred to this self-important boy that there isn’t a message and that there doesn’t need to be a message.

Short trousers for boys were soon to become obsolete.
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1960: The Medium is the Message

A parrot issuing a commercial is indeed cause for surprise.
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1960: Just Try and Stop Him

I suppose the questioner knows the answer but understands that Sir likes to be asked.

Wing collars in 1960? I don't think so!
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1960: Standards

The model prefers the thought that she will appear on the cover of an uplifting paperback.
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1960: Winding Up

A moment of truth for the marriage counsellor
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1960: Patience Exhausted

No more practice for the budding pianist.
 
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