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"It's good to get home!"
"It's good to get home!"

"It's good to get home!"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1963
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 16 × 10 9/16 in. (40.6 × 26.8 cm) Sheet: 16 × 10 9/16 in. (40.6 × 26.8 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1435
"It's good to get back to normal!"
"It's good to get back to normal!"
Alan Dunn
circa 1966
"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
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
Alan Dunn
1943
"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
"Well, I don't care what they say about it. It's home to me."
"Well, I don't care what they say about it. It's home to me."
Alan Dunn
1967
"It's not that I don't like a Packard, you understand, but the Chrysler Eight's a mighty good car."
"It's not that I don't like a Packard, you understand, but the Chrysler Eight's a mighty good car."
Alan Dunn
1928
"It used to take a woman to make a home, but here in the Rodney it's all done by the Corporation."
"It used to take a woman to make a home, but here in the Rodney it's all done by the Corporation."
Alan Dunn
1932
"It's all scientific - I'm to give up pastry until I get well."
"It's all scientific - I'm to give up pastry until I get well."
Kindl (Alan Dunn)
1931
"Oh, come on, Louise! It's April. It's Paris. To hell with the gold balance! Let's blow ourselves to another aperitif!"
"Oh, come on, Louise! It's April. It's Paris. To hell with the gold balance! Let's blow ourselves to another aperitif!"
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"Its a nice little retreat in the Adirondacks where the local power company has kilowatts running out of its ears."
"Its a nice little retreat in the Adirondacks where the local power company has kilowatts running out of its ears."
Alan Dunn
1973
"It's probably not what Lady Bird had in mind, but it's nice."
"It's probably not what Lady Bird had in mind, but it's nice."
Alan Dunn
1967
"I must say it'll be good to get back to Gramercy Park, where one has one's own key."
"I must say it'll be good to get back to Gramercy Park, where one has one's own key."
Alan Dunn
1963