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.
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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