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"Now, just give me a chance to explain."
"Now, just give me a chance to explain."

"Now, just give me a chance to explain."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1940
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 15 3/8 × 13 1/4 in. (39.1 × 33.7 cm) Sheet: 15 3/8 × 13 1/4 in. (39.1 × 33.7 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0740
"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."
"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."
Alan Dunn
1970
"O.K. on 'ding'. Now give me a 'dong'."
"O.K. on 'ding'. Now give me a 'dong'."
Alan Dunn
1957
No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")
No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")
Alan Dunn
1961
"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
"Now remember your signals! The date of the passing of Victorian culture in England is a forward pass!" [pub - "Now remember - the minute I give the date of Shelley's birth, Benton drops back for a kick."]
"Now remember your signals! The date of the passing of Victorian culture in England is a forward pass!" [pub - "Now remember - the minute I give the date of Shelley's birth, Benton drops back for a kick."]
Alan Dunn
1928
"In ordinary cases I just give them sulfathiazole."
"In ordinary cases I just give them sulfathiazole."
Alan Dunn
1944
"Oh, please, please, Dad, give me a church wedding! I'll pay for anything I break out of my allance."
"Oh, please, please, Dad, give me a church wedding! I'll pay for anything I break out of my allance."
Alan Dunn
1930
"Poison - that's the considerate way - It's gas I don't like - refrigerator switch sets it off and it blows - injures maybe fifty people - And jumping, that's messy - No, give me poison cases any day."
"Poison - that's the considerate way - It's gas I don't like - refrigerator switch sets it off and it blows - injures maybe fifty people - And jumping, that's messy - No, give me poison cases any day."
Alan Dunn
1948
"Wonder what the little wife will give me for supper tonight."
"Wonder what the little wife will give me for supper tonight."
Alan Dunn
1928
"When the plunging neckline meets the expanding midriff give me a ring."
"When the plunging neckline meets the expanding midriff give me a ring."
Alan Dunn
1960
[pub- "Art!"] "Don't tell me! Me, who's been working 5th Ave [pub"workin' Fit' Avenue"] from B. Altman to Woolworth for on to a month now." {pub-"mont' now"]
[pub- "Art!"] "Don't tell me! Me, who's been working 5th Ave [pub"workin' Fit' Avenue"] from B. Altman to Woolworth for on to a month now." {pub-"mont' now"]
Alan Dunn
1927
"So I said, 'Take your hands off me, Osprey you fish!' and that was all there was to that - ", "You must have led him on - that type doesn't make passes at just anybody - Just what were you doing with him on the terrace? You practically let him seduce you with those wolfish eyes - "
"So I said, 'Take your hands off me, Osprey you fish!' and that was all there was to that - ", "You must have led him on - that type doesn't make passes at just anybody - Just what were you doing with him on the terrace? You practically let him seduce you with those wolfish eyes - "
Alan Dunn
1948