[PW] New Yorker cartoon

[Carolyn]

At 01:55 PM 3/1/2007, Dean(?) wrote:
>        The cartoons I miss the most are those by Charles Addams (yeah, I
>know--they're collected in a book--but it's not the same as waiting 
>each month for
>the new issue of New Yorker and the new cartoon  by Addams).
>        However, the one cartoon that I have alweays remembered is the one
>that showed two guys (suits, obviously businressmen) on stools at a 
>bar--martini
>glasses in front of each man, the NYC street scene through the big glass
>window behind them.  One of them speaks:  "Sometimes I want to burn 
>with a hard,
>gem-like flame--but then at other tines I say--'Aw, the hell with it.'"

My favorite Addams is the skiier whose tracks go around a tree -- one 
leg on each side.

A source of pride in my family is that my grandfather got mentioned 
in a Chas Addams cartoon: Two explorers tied to a stake in the 
darkest jungle, with cannibals dancing around them wielding spears 
and shields. First explorer says to his partner: "Wouldn't you know 
that at a time like this Haley would be off somewhere photographing 
some damn ritual?" (with photographer perched out of their line of 
sight above in a tree, photographing the ritual surrounding their 
inevitable demise) -- in the New Yorker, 1954

Carolyn Haley
DocuMania


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