These are priceless. But the one on the lower left disturbs me. Her arms are on backwards. I can make my elbows go forwards like that (yes I just experimented), but if I do, my thumbs end up on the inside, not the outside. So... What exactly are they saying here? Drunkenness leads to having your arms detached at the shoulders and re-inserted backwards, like a mistreated Barbie doll? I am disturbed. Perhaps the naked breasts between the elbows were expected to distract anyone inclined to quibble about anatomical details. Perhaps she was drawn by the ancestors of your Spanish instructors. "She has drunk too much alcohol." "Her arms are on backwards." "Get out the knives."
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go further back to the Hogarth cartoons or Fielding's books.
there is nothing new under the sun or (in-joke for brits) in The Sun
They are all so real, still, aren't they? The first raked stage, and the hunting dogs, and the little boys.
I just skimmed through this time, but I am going to return and read carefully, and probably over and over.
Thank you so much.
there is a contemporary carttonist who has a strip called Yobettes in the magazine Private Eye and he would recognise these gals
"She has drunk too much alcohol."
"Her arms are on backwards."
"Get out the knives."