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"Well, all right. Just one more slice and then I must be getting on with my diet."
"Well, all right. Just one more slice and then I must be getting on with my diet."

"Well, all right. Just one more slice and then I must be getting on with my diet."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1930
ClassificationsCartoon
MediumCrayon and ink wash
Dimensions13 3/16 × 9 9/16 in.
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1817
Copyright©Artist/ Artist Estate
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
Alan Dunn
1948
"All right, darling, you may fire one fusillade at Mr. and Mrs. Smalley and then you must go to bed."
"All right, darling, you may fire one fusillade at Mr. and Mrs. Smalley and then you must go to bed."
Alan Dunn
1932
"Just one more chapter, sir, and I promise I'll go to bed."
"Just one more chapter, sir, and I promise I'll go to bed."
Kindl (Alan Dunn)
1930
"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."
"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."
Alan Dunn
1970
"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
"All right for you, if y're gonna sneak off, Wallace - I must say that's not very white of you."
"All right for you, if y're gonna sneak off, Wallace - I must say that's not very white of you."
Alan Dunn
1927
"Then I married Steve -- probably the biggest event in my diet."
"Then I married Steve -- probably the biggest event in my diet."
Alan Dunn
1932
"Just one more crisis, and I promise to go to bed."
"Just one more crisis, and I promise to go to bed."
Alan Dunn
1962
"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 -."
"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 -."
Alan Dunn
1948
"All right - all right! I'll shut up - sick as I am -"
"All right - all right! I'll shut up - sick as I am -"
Alan Dunn
1930
"...five to a tent, but I am not getting any two much rest on account of the old saying that two is company and three more is overcrowding."
"...five to a tent, but I am not getting any two much rest on account of the old saying that two is company and three more is overcrowding."
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1941