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"Do you suppose it's a job action?"
"Do you suppose it's a job action?"

"Do you suppose it's a job action?"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1971
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.7 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.7 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1975
"I'm telling you for the last time, Harwick. It's none of your business how much it costs the taxpayers. Your job is to find that gun."
"I'm telling you for the last time, Harwick. It's none of your business how much it costs the taxpayers. Your job is to find that gun."
Alan Dunn
1941
"Now look - International has a net quick of $15 per share. Its market price is $10, book is $36.65. Our net quick is $8; our book is$22, and at market we are selling for $25. So to start with we offer them one share of ours for two of theirs. That's five bucks premium. Can they turn it down? So they turn it down. Then we say, O.K., we'll buy the assets. We'll give you $1 million for your plant, which stands at $3,900,000 net. That wipes out all the water, gives them a fine tax carry-back. Then we give them 80 per cent of net inventory and accounts receivable - that's another $4 million. Another nice tax loss for them. So we pay 'em $5 million. There's nothing complicated about this except - say, where do we get the turn-around money"
"Now look - International has a net quick of $15 per share. Its market price is $10, book is $36.65. Our net quick is $8; our book is$22, and at market we are selling for $25. So to start with we offer them one share of ours for two of theirs. That's five bucks premium. Can they turn it down? So they turn it down. Then we say, O.K., we'll buy the assets. We'll give you $1 million for your plant, which stands at $3,900,000 net. That wipes out all the water, gives them a fine tax carry-back. Then we give them 80 per cent of net inventory and accounts receivable - that's another $4 million. Another nice tax loss for them. So we pay 'em $5 million. There's nothing complicated about this except - say, where do we get the turn-around money"
Alan Dunn
1954
"It's a book on etiquette.", "You might look up what people of our position do [pub - "about spaghetti"] in case of fire."
"It's a book on etiquette.", "You might look up what people of our position do [pub - "about spaghetti"] in case of fire."
Alan Dunn
1928
"Gascoigne! How do you like my new frock?", "Thumbs down, Eugenie; it's too damn feminine."
"Gascoigne! How do you like my new frock?", "Thumbs down, Eugenie; it's too damn feminine."
Alan Dunn
1927
"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe if used as directed. Just don't breathe the vapor or spraymist, avoid contact with the skin, keep the mist from your eyes, do not spray near a fire or open flame, store under a hundred and twenty degrees and out of the sun's rays, keep the can out of reach of children, and do not incinerate or puncture."
"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe if used as directed. Just don't breathe the vapor or spraymist, avoid contact with the skin, keep the mist from your eyes, do not spray near a fire or open flame, store under a hundred and twenty degrees and out of the sun's rays, keep the can out of reach of children, and do not incinerate or puncture."
Alan Dunn
c 1966
“But how do I know it’s authentic?”
“But how do I know it’s authentic?”
Alan Dunn
1967
"You can kill two birds with this one. It's good literature and it's dirty."
"You can kill two birds with this one. It's good literature and it's dirty."
Alan Dunn
1959
"Now how do you suppose that ever slipped by the International Ice Patrol?"
"Now how do you suppose that ever slipped by the International Ice Patrol?"
Alan Dunn
1936
"What do you suppose can be keeping that damned pigeon?"
"What do you suppose can be keeping that damned pigeon?"
Alan Dunn
1941
"You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?"
"You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?"
Alan Dunn
1966
"There's nothing really complicated about it: if you live in a strategic-base area you come under the supervision of the World Security Council and its military staff, where as if you live in a trusteeship area you are governed by a trusteeship council which, like the economic and social council, serves under the authority of the General Assembly."
"There's nothing really complicated about it: if you live in a strategic-base area you come under the supervision of the World Security Council and its military staff, where as if you live in a trusteeship area you are governed by a trusteeship council which, like the economic and social council, serves under the authority of the General Assembly."
Alan Dunn
1945
"I suppose not many boys my age buy guns, do they?"
"I suppose not many boys my age buy guns, do they?"
Alan Dunn
1929