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"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."
"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1950
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 6 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (16.5 × 26.7 cm) Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (16.5 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1159
"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."
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"For heaven's sakes, if you'll only read that note I handed you, you'll find it's a simple request for a statement of account!"
"For heaven's sakes, if you'll only read that note I handed you, you'll find it's a simple request for a statement of account!"
Alan Dunn
1959
"I can tell better where to put your hips when you tell me where you want your waist."
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Mary Petty
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You'll also learn that money doesn't count here. It's what you are."
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"Oh, what do you care what a lot of bourgeois trades people in a building like this think! Tell 'em I'm your sponsor - anything."
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"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
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"Tell me frankly, General, do you think I ought to..."
"Tell me frankly, General, do you think I ought to..."
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1948