In So Many Words
We have been here before, I know. But new postcards come into the inventory and I have to decide whether certain readings of the scene were intended by the twentieth century artist, or whether it is a creation of twenty-first century sensibilities. It’s a game, really: the prize being NOT getting kicked off a…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 20
Opposite the restroom and the janitor’s closet, in the little side corridor, was an open doorway screened for tonight with a large grey cubicle partition on wheels. At other times, the cozy room beyond might serve to house small gatherings of men and women whose decisions would be blazoned in large black letters in…
Fine Old Jokes: The Mother-in-Law
It occurred to me, looking over the postcards dealing with the, um, difficult bits of married life for our series on couples of contrasting size that I had ONE more size issue to examine. It was a popular genre once, the tales of what happened in some of those cases where a married couple…
MIDWEEK FICTION: Never a Godmother Around When You Need One
“Ankle ankle ankle ankle ankle….” “Sir? Sir?” “I beg your pardon. I….my brain…I’m sorry. They call it post-traumatic…. What was the question?” “I’m afraid I was being rude, sir, but I DO wish to know what your ANGLE is in applying for a job for which you are clearly overqualified.” …
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 19
Her eyes flashed with the petulant outrage of a little girl caught in the cookie jar, thinking it very unreasonable of you to have come into the kitchen at that precise moment. Then her eyelids lowered. “Your mother think of that?” “I don’t need all my fingers to count to nine,” Matt…
The Little Woman
As we have been pointing out for the last two weeks, the postcard cartoonists enjoyed a gentle laugh at a romantic couple of contrasting sizes, while at the same time showing that love is not hampered by such concerns. What DOES hamper love? Well, in the view of the cartoonists, the chief obstacle to…
Height of Devotion
We have spent a certain amount of space in this blog, over the last couple of weeks, discussing how little a difference in size seems to make when it came to romance in postcard cartoons. We have considered the round man paired with the skinny woman, the skinny man and the round woman, and…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 18
Matt growled at the paper plate on his knee, rehearsing what he should have said. He gave himself points for being able to conduct a conversation at all around mouthfuls of calzone, but he was convinced he had said at least three stupid things to each person who stopped him to chat. Had he…
Size Does NOT Matter
In our last thrilling installment, we considered postcards which made jokes about couples who were mismatched in waist size: a round man and a spindly woman or vice versa. But apparently the postcard cartoonists found disparity in height to be nearly as hilarious. The tall man and the short(er) woman gave rise to jokes…
Round Romance
Hereintofore, this space has discussed the lives of large round people on postcards. Our most recent considerations have especially focused on the large round man, with or without the apparently standard checkered suit and cigar. We have even touched briefly on the slender young ladies who are often another accessory of the round man.…
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