Re: Please explain this gag cartoon

On Wed, 07 May 2008 07:54:49 -0400, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
<cdimmick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Brettster wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
>Perhaps you are too young to remember when riders on a carousel
>could reach out and grab a ring from a dispenser located next
>to the ride. If the ring you grabbed was brass, you got a free
>ride. Looks like this kid grabbed a ring that wouldn't come
>out of the dispenser. Old gag. I saw it earlier than the Mad
>Magazine version.
>

Doesn't it seem like a lawsuit waiting to happen, though?  I wonder
how many injuries occurred from grabbing for the ring...

-- 
M C Hamster  "Big Wheel Keep on Turning" -- Creedence Clearwater Revival