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NRVNQSR posted:If that's not adjusted for inflation it's the equivalent of almost $900 today, which seems like a pretty substantial price. For that amount of marble, sure, but for pulling up 2200 headstones, slicing them in half, and then reinstalling them? edit: oh, new page. Okay - I'd been planning to, when I finished with my little archive of Keeping Up With the Joneses, to post the rest of those Inside Woody Allen strips. I might also - or instead - do Tad Dorgan's Judge Rummy, about an alcoholic philandering dog who is a municipal court judge.
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This installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses is interesting for what it tells us about cultural practices regarding newspapers. The sporting page, singular? I don't really see what's so hilarious about Julie giving her father the obituaries, though.
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Apr 13, 2020 14:42
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä "Bird milk" ? This, or something else?
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Julet Esqu posted:
To be fair, that's basically what he's telling her: 'you already have a job'. Maybe the point is that she doesn't see it as one because nobody's paying her.
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Apr 13, 2020 20:12
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One of the recurring themes in Keeping Up With the Joneses is that the McGinises aren't as wealthy as they want people to believe.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:08
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Technowolf posted:Do we ever see the titular Joneses, or is that part of the humor of the strip? That is indeed part of the joke: all we ever learn about the Joneses is that the McGinises constantly try - and fail - to emulate them. Yes, exactly. Here we see Gene fantasizing about Mrs Jones.
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, another Prohibition joke. I have no idea where the idea "booze cures snakebite" came from, but it was common enough that this isn't the only place I've seen it. 'Grip' is short for "gripsack". Notice Clarice's newspaper in panel 1 - 'SASSIETY GOSSIP WEEKLY'
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Keeping Up With the Joneses - is this assuming it's normal and commonplace for people to raise chickens at home, or is that part of the joke?
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Apr 15, 2020 06:19
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The notion of the husband wanting to escape from his wife has been a mainstay of comic strips for a long time, as seen by this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses. Momand's own marriage didn't do so well, so maybe he was projecting.
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Apr 15, 2020 22:44
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Sailor Cat posted:Wow, nobody posted last Sunday's Blondie nightmare fuel? (Including me, I saw in GBS.) He really missed a gag by not having the third talking food item be chopped liver.
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in this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, I don't know if using "not at liberty" to mean "not available" was actually common, or if Momand contrived it for the sake of the joke. (Just in case: Aloysius is deliberately misparsing 'not at liberty' to mean 'in prison'; 'pinched' = 'arrested'.) Note the extra joke: Mr. Bonehed has a Funny Name, tee hee. Parahexavoctal fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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Apr 17, 2020 04:51
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Aloysius's extravagant lies aren't going to come back to bite him, because the notion of daily continuity in comic strips was still quite new in those days. Additional joke: "Lord Helpus" = "Lord, help us". What an amazingly hilarious play on words.
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Apr 17, 2020 18:13
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, the punchline is "alcohol", and possibly "silly walks". I'm honestly not sure if this is supposed to be the same fancy event as in the previous strip. [next strip will be spoilered for Old-Timey Racist Caricatures]
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Apr 18, 2020 15:24
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Momand reminds us that he was a working cartoonist in the 1910s, and was thus all in on racist caricatures.
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Some Guy TT posted:That was subtle. It took me a minute. Bikeshed discussion. Parahexavoctal fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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Apr 19, 2020 14:29
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Some Guy TT posted:On one hand a six pack of bottled beer is one of the more impractical things a person can shoplift so I can't help but feel like this is supposed to be some kind of moral statement. Ruthie's acting like an actual child her age, though. That's remarkable for OBH.
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Apr 19, 2020 17:50
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This installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses is interesting not for the fairly standard "I load your arms full of packages then criticize you for not using your hands for something else" gag, but for the explicit anticommunist message in the last panel. How many modern cartoonists (non-editorial) would be quite that blatant?
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Apr 20, 2020 02:43
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Momand returns to the gag about a major class indicator being how much noise people made when eating soup. It's remarkable how quickly the spelling "sassiety" has begun to grate on me. Also of note is the reference to a "jazz band" - quite a new phrase at the time. The compilation that I'm taking these from was published in 1920, and I'd been wondering if it included content from the strip's beginning in 1913.
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Apr 20, 2020 18:00
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Aloysius destroys a valuable antique.
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Apr 21, 2020 05:27
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses - spoilered for 1920s Casually Racist Caricatures - am I the only one who thinks this punchline is isomorphic to "that was no lady, that was my wife" ?
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Apr 22, 2020 00:54
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EasyEW posted:Skippy (November 18-19, 1932) I think this is a reference to the Orange Order, and thus how comedically stupid it would be to sell oranges at the St Patrick's Day parade.
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Apr 22, 2020 02:08
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, another Prohibition joke: Aloysius broke his hip flask.
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Apr 22, 2020 19:38
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Aloysius is able to identify a century plant on sight, but doesn't know that they can bloom a lot more frequently than that.
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Apr 23, 2020 05:45
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It's like he's wearing nothing at all!
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Dag, is Fit Mum an escort? possibly a lap dancer?
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Apr 23, 2020 18:17
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in this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, the jokes about Ethelred's dog intersect with the Old-Timey Racist Caricatures.
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Apr 24, 2020 05:53
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PetraCore posted:Are we sure Welch and Rick aren't an item? I'm drawing a blank on who Welch and Rick are.
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Apr 25, 2020 00:19
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Aloysius faces judicial corruption. Inflation calculators tell us that a $10 fine in 1920 would be about $130 today, but that doesn't say anything about what 40mph in 1920 would feel like today.
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Apr 25, 2020 04:25
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses: cutlery humor. Also, what Clarice is doing to her face somehow makes me think of goatse.
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Apr 26, 2020 05:47
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Although the feminist history lesson is quite interesting, this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses may have been published before women in the US had the vote. I have no idea what they mean by "taking the bone out of his nose", but "taking the bone out of his head" is "make him not be a bonehead" - i.e., less stupid. Am I the only one who finds that flavor of abusiveness to be just a tiny bit Ed Kudlicky? (inflation calculator says $25 then is $322 now)
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Apr 27, 2020 03:40
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, it's interesting that Momand felt the need to toss in that explanatory note in the third panel. I'm not really sure what the "manicurists' ball" would be, aside from a ball held by manicurists... who I guess would have been young single women? But if it's inappropriate for a married man to go to such an event, then why would the barber have given him two tickets? And if it's not inappropriate, why wouldn't Clarice assume one of the tickets was for her?
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Apr 28, 2020 02:52
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, I have to wonder if the stereotypical "lie detector detects lies about its own capacities" gag was any more original in 1920. Does it count as a "lie" if you sincerely believe it?
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Apr 29, 2020 05:38
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how long did it take you to translate those poems from Swedish while retaining the rhyme and meter?
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Apr 29, 2020 13:54
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, I assume Momand was in a hurry to meet deadline, and/or didn't think anyone would care about plot holes. Why would Clarice take the money and the wallet?
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Tiggum posted:Well, it's about a million times better, but it's still not good. And maybe it's just starting slow, but for the entire first week there's, like, no jokes and no story? You don't see the joke in strip 3 about Fashion Tastes being dictated by online announcements which everyone immediately obeys?
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Apr 30, 2020 14:27
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus Thel's face seems particularly disturbing today, not sure why. Something about the way the fleshtone just stops with no border, maybe?
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If this was Mämmilä it would end with Andy and the baby both being shot.
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Aloysius' extravagant lies blow up in his face immediately.
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Angular Cyrus posted:They'll Do It Every Time 12/5/46 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxey%27s_Army
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MariusLecter posted:Also, the Joe Exotic in Holbrook's hell world is an actual tiger that forces other tigers to breed/inbreed and kills the cubs when they get too old to handle. And so much more. It says something about Holbrook that I took you seriously for a few seconds. From one hellworld to the next: the 1920s. In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, note that not only is Aloysius wearing a two-piece bathing suit, he's still smoking even though he's waist-deep in the ocean. (Yes, the previous strip said they were 65 miles from the nearest body of water. What's your point?) Parahexavoctal fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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