Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:46:22 -0700
Subject: Re: PUPT: cartoon interpretation


Geez- whoever the poor marionette in the body cast is, he'll never get
well.  They've got his tail string attached to his left leg.  And who
wants their right leg and their private areas to be joined?  Poor guy-
that's what you get from having meat doctors work on him.


Peter Kronenberg wrote:
> 
> 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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Mary Robinette Kowal
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