CSotD: Bet he won’t buy five copies for his mother
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Technically, John Cole's cartoon is from yesterday, but editorial cartoons tend to float a little bit in the distribution channel and I didn't see it until last night. So it's here today, in part because it's a good drawing and I think he's laid it out well, but mostly because
A: It's an incredibly appropriate gag and he fit the logical parts together perfectly, and
B: He actually has a sense of meter and flow that make it an excellent, singable satire of the original song.
I don't know how many cartoonists saw this and slapped themselves on the forehead for not thinking of it first, but my experience as a cringing reader suggests that not many of them would have been able to write the lyrics without emulating the poet of whom it was said
There once was a chap named McMahon
Whose poems would never quite scan
When told it was so
He said, "Yes, I know.
"But I always try to fit as many words into the last line as I possibly can."
They were better off adding to the stack of editorial cartoons that used the concept of Sisyphus, the war, rolling a stone … and I'd rather be run over by that giant rolling stone than buried under that giant stack.
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