The office of yesterday, today!

Office Hours, 1966-11-25.

I love how many things in this single panel are so clearly indicative of the time period it was published in, but what I really love is that you can still see all these things in comic strips being written and published today. Even the smoking in the office, if we count Shoe's open-air newspaper office.

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Marvin, 2015-02-10.

Because he's a baby! God damn, what the fuck is wrong with you, Tom Armstrong?

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Grand Avenue, 2015-02-10.

Perfect dialogue! Now it can be repeated at any time with no alterations!

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Blondie, 2015-02-12.

I can't decide if this is clever or not. It's Blondie, so probably not.

Bad pet owners

Marvin, 2015-02-04.

Does that mean his office is an entire floor?

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Hazel, 2015-02-04.

Don't feed your cat milk, adult cats are lactose intolerant.

Philosophical Friday: Nagging Wives

Freshly Squeezed, 2014-07-07.

Yeah yeah yeah, shoplifting bad, important lessons, etc. but what the hell is that thing he stole? It looks like one of those shitty fake gameboy things that only play one terrible game because the screen just has certain pre-defined shapes on it like a calculator. What those cost is about $2, surely? Do they even make those any more?

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Hi and Lois, 2014-07-08.

Marvin, 2014-07-08.

Ballard Street, 2014-07-11.

Husbands, always storing useless junk!
Wives, always throwing away treasured possessions!

Never the other way around, you may notice. And there's no chance of any sort of negotiation or compromise or even just talking to each other like grown adults who respect each other. Because men are disgusting slobs who will happily live in filth and women are joyless nags who exist to impose neatness and cleanliness on men. Obviously.

Sitcom Thursday: Medieval Attitudes About Women

Shoe, 2014-05-05.

"Biz, are you wearing your dentures?..." asks Roz.
"No." says Biz.
"Well, let me get you something you can sink your tooth into."
Both of them are birds.

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I know I just covered this with Pluggers yesterday, but come on, birds with teeth again?

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Hägar the Horrible, 2014-05-06.

"Sir Knight !" call Hägar. "We haven't seen you in ages ! Come sneak up with us on an enemy castle!"
"I've been out of commission for so long I might be a liability!" answers Knight.
"He's right..." says Lucky Eddie, noticing that Knight's armour squeaks when he moves. "He might!"

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Given that Knight is wearing full plate armour and a helmet that covers his face, how did Hägar know it was him? And is his name really Sir Knight? Also, he seems pretty cavalier about joining a group of Vikings to attack some castle.

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Curtis, 2014-05-08.

"Number one, never take your lady for granted" says Greg.
Curtis listens wearily.
"Number one, give her little gifts for no reason..." continues Greg. "Number one, never have another woman's number saved on your phone..."
Curtis slumps forward.
"Number one, make her feel that without her, your life would be trash"
"We've been at this for two hours, dad!" complains Curtis. "When does this list end?"
"Hey, we're past the halfway mark!" says Greg, smugly.

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On no account should you ever make the mistake of thinking of a woman as a human being like yourself. They're more like robots. You just have to know the rules and follow them to get what you want.

Ah, and one of those rules is that you can't have any female friends, apparently. Or colleagues you might need to phone. Not that that should be a problem, because why would you have female friends? As though a man could ever have any reason to associate with a woman he doesn't want to have sex with. Absurd. And as for the work colleague thing, why would you need to phone your secretary? And if you do, just call your own office and she'll answer.

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Marvin & Family, 2014-05-08.

"Where are you going, Jeff?" asks Jenny.
"It's a little too close to Mother's Day to answer that question" says Jeff, leaving the house.
"You told Jenny you're Mother's Day shopping?" asks Ted later at the pub.
"I never actually said that" smirks Jeff.

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Hey, he might have deliberately deceived her by making a misleading statement, but there's no way anyone could equate that with lying, right? Besides, how is a man supposed to get some time to spend with his friends if he doesn't lie to his nagging wife, right guys?

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Wizard of Id, 2014-05-08.

A prisoner hangs by his wrists in the castle dungeon.
"I'll not talk without my lawyer present" he says.
In the second panel a man in a top hat is hanging next to him.
"Thanks a heap, friend!" says the new arrival.
The implication is that the second man is the first man's lawyer, and so he has been arrested as a deliberate misinterpretation of the prisoner's demand.

Marvin

Marvin, 2013-10-29.

What do you mean "could"? He's already in the costume!

Marvin

"Jenny," says Jeff, with satisfaction, "I've decided to take Friday off to see the new Star Trek movie"
"That's perfect, Jeff" says Jenny. "I need you to watch Marvin for me"
Jeff is somewhat taken aback.
"How is that 'perfect'?" he wonders.

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Marvin

You can run but you can't escape when Marvin's monster truck is on a rampage !!

"Yikes!" says Marvin's father as he runs from the enormous truck that Marvin is attempting to run him down in.

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Marvin

"Waaaaaaaaaaaa" screams Marvin, no doubt terrified by the featureless white void in which he finds himself.

"Thank god for my iPod." thinks the dog. Although what benefit it gets from the iPod is a mystery as the earbuds are clearly not in its ears. They're just sort of stuck to the side of its head somehow. The iPod itself is suspended in mid-air in front of the dog.

This is indeed a disturbing universe.

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Marvin

"I learned something very important today" thinks Marvin, a look of surprise on his face.

"Mom's 'do what I tell you to do' list trumps my 'to don't' list" he thinks, now standing angrily in the corner of the room, holding something white, maybe a piece of paper.

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