Comments on: The New Yorker's airport security cartoons from 1938-2009 http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: necaver http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946434 necaver Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946434 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? 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?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-947469 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-947469 Well done! Yes, the perfect caption works once again, probably even better than usual! Well done! Yes, the perfect caption works once again, probably even better than usual!

]]> By: Palmer Eldritch http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946970 Palmer Eldritch Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946970 The image is reminiscent of the ending to the Philip K. Dick short story 'Colony'. The image is reminiscent of the ending to the Philip K. Dick short story ‘Colony’.

]]> By: swedub http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946460 swedub Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946460 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. 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.

]]> By: knodi http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946464 knodi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946464 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. 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.

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946469 Donald Petersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946469 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. 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.

]]> By: benediktus http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946302 benediktus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946302 "christ, what an asshole" also works as usual. “christ, what an asshole” also works as usual.

]]> By: Michael Smith http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-947070 Michael Smith Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-947070 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. 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-947592 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-947592 I was so distracted by the gigantic penis ladder that i didn't even notice they're naked... I was so distracted by the gigantic penis ladder that i didn’t even notice they’re naked…

]]> By: GuyInMilwaukee http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946329 GuyInMilwaukee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946329 I like this one from the 80's by John Byner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgNiU5s34M That was one funny man. I like this one from the 80′s by John Byner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgNiU5s34M
That was one funny man.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946331 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946331 Except it's not. Except it’s not.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-947625 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-947625 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? 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?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-946356 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-946356 ah but(t) Alice... it is <b>not</b> 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) 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)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/11/23/the-new-yorkers-airp.html#comment-949215 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-949215 "It's a cookbook!" “It’s a cookbook!”

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