Re: Please explain this gag cartoon

HVS wrote:
> On 07 May 2008, Invisible Lurker wrote
>
>> Lars Eighner said:
>>> In our last episode,
>>> <20e89faf-c2be-4c28-8607-fa04ac01613d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> m>, the lovely and talented Brettster broadcast on
>>> alt.fan.cecil-adams:
>>>
>>>> I was a fan of MAD Magazine in my youth, and recently picked
>>>> up an old book of collected cartoons by Sergio Aragones, the
>>>> guy who drew all of those "Mad Marginals." I always liked his
>>>> mostly wordless gag cartoons.
>>>
>>>> But here's one in the book that absolutely mystifies me:
>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/65p732
>>>
>>>> What's the joke?
>>>
>>> There often was not a big joke to marginal stuff.  In this
>>> case, the kid has grabbed for the brass ring --- which should
>>> have popped out in his hand, to be exchanged for a free ride on
>>> the merry-go-round. It's a just-my-luck sort of sadsack thing.
>>> The ring not only fail to detach, but also the kid was yanked
>>> off his horse.
>>
>> Heh...you said "yanked."
>
> He even said "yanked off his horse".
>
> (snort, fnarr-fnarr, snort)

He even said 'ring' ... yuk yuk
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John Dean
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