The New Yorker has a slideshow of airport security cartoons from 1938-2009. The cartoon above is from 1972.
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Nov 23, 2010
The New Yorker's airport security cartoons from 1938-2009
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“christ, what an asshole” also works as usual.
Well done! Yes, the perfect caption works once again, probably even better than usual!
I like this one from the 80’s by John Byner.
That was one funny man.
Except it’s not.
ah but(t) Alice… it is not foolproof cuz you just know that guy in front of you has a cannister of sarin up his butt (which the body scanner and vigorous pat-downs missed)
Reminds me of an early sci-fi story where kg-sized alien parasites had taken over much of mankind on Earth. They hid in clothes, boots, even purses, with a tentacle running into their enslaved victim. For security reasons, everyone went around nude to show there were no aliens attached to them. Anyone recall the title/author?
I wonder how many replies you’ll get saying “The Puppet Masters” by Heinlein? Seems like my comments always take a few minutes to appear, and I know we aren’t the only ones who read that.
necaver,
The Puppet Masters by Robert A Heinlein. One of his best novels IMHO. There was a movie made of it but I wouldn’t go looking for it.
Wow, only 36% of them are from before 2001. That’s a 63 year span even though commercial travel and the New Yorker were around since the 1920’s.
Bummer that so many people actually do consider nudity humiliating. Oddly enough, if everyone’s attitude weren’t colored by the aftertaste of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (or whatever less-silly cause might be trotted forth as the source of our neurotic modesty), then this whole controversy wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t be much of an imposition for the TSA to check out your crotchal area if it’s flappin’ about in the breeze for all to witness, and there wouldn’t be a need for expensive scanning devices of questionable safety either.
Your baggage might be a lot lighter, too, as long as you’re traveling into and out of such civilized climes as Southern California. Heh… your strapping young luggage-lifter would thank you.
The image is reminiscent of the ending to the Philip K. Dick short story ‘Colony’.
I was so distracted by the gigantic penis ladder that i didn’t even notice they’re naked…
New Yorker cartoons have gone downhill. They used to be beautifully drawn and amusing. Now so many of them are ugly and pointless. There are a few good cartoonists still contributing, (Gahan Wilson) but not as many as there used to be. One of their best contributers just died a few weeks ago (a retired airline pilot) and I haven’t seen any of the newer crop doing anything impressive.
Are there any new James Thurbers out there? Peter Arnos? Charles Adams?
“It’s a cookbook!”