CSotD: Bonus Classic: Rhymes with Wretched Excess
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This "Rhymes with Orange" from 2000 remains one of my favorite holiday strips.
When it came out, not only did I happen to drive by one of these places every evening on my way home, but it was in a town where General Electric had a major effort going on in coming up with explanations for why it was better to leave all the crap they'd thrown into the Hudson River down there under the mud than to dredge it up and remove it.
Hilary Price's drawing style is so disarmingly simple that she can throw a pretty sharp barb without seeming mean.
It's not the same thing as when Jane Austen, or a woman from the Deep South, says something and it sounds nice and refined and polite so that you smile before it sinks in and you say, "Wait a minute — did she just say that?"
It's more of a Judy Holiday/Gracie Allen thing, where the apparent simplicity lulls you into assuming there are no sharp objects enclosed, until you realize how wrong you are.
In any case, for the last 11 years, every time I've gone past one of these hideous displays of well-intentioned, wretched festive excess, I've said to myself, "It looks like General Electric threw up."
And indeed it has.
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