Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:43:02 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: cartoon interpretation


Is this the cartoon?  Looks like there is no caption.  I think it's just 
supposed to be an amusing visual

http://www.cartoonbank.com/cartoon_closeup.asp?pf%5Fid=52225&dept%5Fid=1001&mscssid=UTPTHLWTK7EL8N0WD65W4X644XURBEX3&cartoon=3&s_keywords=puppet&findby=popular&s_artist=&s_id=&s_imageType=&color=&s_fromdate=&s_todate=&NewYorkerOnly=&s_topic
It's a long url.  If you have trouble cutting and pasting, just go to 
www.cartoonbank.com and search the cartoons with the keyword 'puppet'

At 7/30/2002  Tuesday  10:40 AM, you wrote:
>I hate to show my ignorance but, hey, I'm living in the midwest, ha!
>A friend gave me a cartoon from THE NEW YORKER -- from several weeks ago
>-- in which two figures are in a hospital room.  One figure is a human
>whose his limbs are suspended from traction devices.  The second figure
>is a marionette or a human suspended from a marionette control.  There
>is something unusual about one of the strings -- the part of the figure
>which could be moved by that string.  The obviously human figure is
>looking at the "marionette" with a startled look and the eyes of the
>"marionette" seem to be looking at the viewer of the cartoon.  In the
>space below the beds -- the space where the caption usually goes -- are
>two dots separated by about three quarters of an inch.  Does anyone know
>the meaning of these dots?  One of my friends thinks they are a printing
>error but a couple of us believe there is some esoteric meaning.  Anyone
>know?
>
>Dorlis Grubidge
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