Re: Please explain this gag cartoon

On May 7, 4:54 am, "Charles Wm. Dimmick" <cdimm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

Bingo.

Thank you.

I did not know what that "dispenser" was, what the rings were supposed
to signify or why the kid had (obviously) tried to snatch one.

Thanks for asplaining.

B