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"I found myself running out of money, dear, so I've decided to take you into my confidence."
"I found myself running out of money, dear, so I've decided to take you into my confidence."

"I found myself running out of money, dear, so I've decided to take you into my confidence."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1941
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 9 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (23.2 × 31.4 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (23.2 × 31.4 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0802
"Roger, watch 1967! I've decided to discover myself!"
"Roger, watch 1967! I've decided to discover myself!"
Alan Dunn
1966
"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
"I am so happy that you are meeting so many nice boys but cannot understand why you ask me to send you a little money so often..."
"I am so happy that you are meeting so many nice boys but cannot understand why you ask me to send you a little money so often..."
Alan Dunn
1941
"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
"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
"This jam is frightful. It'll take us hallf an hour to go the remaining fifty feet.", "Oh dear, I've half a mind to walk."
"This jam is frightful. It'll take us hallf an hour to go the remaining fifty feet.", "Oh dear, I've half a mind to walk."
Alan Dunn
1927
"You take the wires out first, silly.", "I bet she don't lunch at the Colony in these!", "Got a quarter on you Mary Lou to save me going upstairs?"
"You take the wires out first, silly.", "I bet she don't lunch at the Colony in these!", "Got a quarter on you Mary Lou to save me going upstairs?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"You poor dear! Did you think I didn't love you enough to take an interest in fixing you up?"
"You poor dear! Did you think I didn't love you enough to take an interest in fixing you up?"
Alan Dunn
1933
"Look, dear, I've tried to be less of a non-person and more of a mother. As if that weren't enough, now you want relevance."
"Look, dear, I've tried to be less of a non-person and more of a mother. As if that weren't enough, now you want relevance."
Alan Dunn
1969
"I was reading a history and I found out General Grant got to be a general from obscurity as bad as mine."
"I was reading a history and I found out General Grant got to be a general from obscurity as bad as mine."
Alan Dunn
1941
"I've finally decided to go to college. All you lose is four years."
"I've finally decided to go to college. All you lose is four years."
Mary Petty
1936
"I've come to a decision, Charles. From now on, I refuse to take the dollar seriously."
"I've come to a decision, Charles. From now on, I refuse to take the dollar seriously."
Alan Dunn
1971