Creepy Lurker Dads Watch Their Families Drive Away

Thanks to Paula for the link to this Flickr set.

The Dream of Solar Power - 1958

From Plan59. The caption on this illustration read: "The furnace is 93,000,000 miles away."

So, yeah. Keep dreaming.

Random Monday Old Illustration Mutilation

Originally this was a Bell Telephone poster. Now it's not.

Take Your Music With You!

A rolling turntable, radio thingy, so the Mrs. can sip on her purple stuff whilst she preps the food for her grateful crew, who are celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus with appropriate mirth and merriment.

Jollier

Original image from Shorpy, modified to the point of desecration by me, on a rainy day at work as I await the call for the pot luck lunch.

Formal Friday

A Morality Play for Salespeople.
Wait: Morality? Sales?
Nevermind.
OK, it's just a skit that fell out of my head after I saw this picture.

JANE

I just love Formal Fridays. They make me feel pretty.

JIM

At the risk of creating an HR incident, you are always pretty, Jane, Formal Friday or not.

JANE

(Laughing) Oh, Jim, you're so funny.

JIM

I'm not trying to be funny. You're totally hot. Always.

JANE

Let's pretend you're being funny then, OK? That's sure a handsome metal desk.

JIM

Thanks. Wanna lay on it? Super comfortable.

JANE

Uh....I thank you, but no. Where's your chair?

JIM

Well, I don't like to sit on Formal Fridays 'cause it wrinkles my tux, so I stick the chair in the closet. But that is one handsome metal desk, huh?

JANE

Certainly.

JIM

Handsome handsome.

JANE

Indeed.

JIM

Am I handsome?

JANE

Jim.

JIM

Yes, Jane?

JANE

We are coworkers. Our relationship is professional.

JIM

I know. But I'm in sales. I can't stop trying.

JANE

So, I am just a prospect to you? A potential "sale"?

JIM

Look, if I make 30 calls on my avocado phone over there and three say "yes," then the effort was worth it.

JANE

I see. And how many "calls" have you made today besides the one you're working right now?

JIM

You sure smell pretty.

JANE

You're disgusting.

JIM

Disgusting in a roguish, rakish way? Like a pirate?

JANE

No. Like a pig disgusting.

JIM

You dig me, I can tell.

JANE

No, I don't.

JIM

No means yes.

JANE

No. No means no.

JIM

And today's opposite day.

JANE

No, it's Formal Friday. And I bid you good day, sir.

[Jane exits, stage right]

JIM

I sooo almost had her.

Image via Plan 59

Today's Cool is Tomorrow's Retro

HighJive pointed out in the last edition of this comic what I couldn't figure out about my hack Photoshop work; that Major Mike Adams looked as though he was standing in a trench. So now he's seated to deliver another lesson to the always attentive Credenza Brothers.

Surely by now you've figured this part out; that when you click the image, it becomes legible.