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Voltaire Yakamoto notes that this is why he always wears mirrored sunglasses. He also notes, after referring to the Book of Genesis, that comparing a workplace to Sodom and Gomorrah has interesting implications.
(On a somewhat serious note, it is interesting to look at newspapers from various points in time throughout the 19th and first-half-of-20th century to see the evolution of how the news was presented. Newspapers from, say, the Civil War era are virtually unrecognizable, being super-heavy dense with text, and only occasional scattered illustrations. Printing technology that allowed for the use of photographs and cartoons didn’t truly emerge until the 1880s. The sports section as we know it is an invention of roughly 1900, not long after comics pages emerged. Even, though, well into the 1930s, newspaper front pages, tabloids excepted, tended to be dense. And some may forget just how revolutionary in design USA TODAY was when it debuted in the 1980s.)
Yakamoto and Hackenschmidt, after each blowing into a pitch pipe, begin a spirited rendition of that ancient Irish ballad “Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms,” in the fine John McCormick style.
For his part, Parsifal Hackenschmidt breaks out his Dungeon Master’s rulebook, to see how badly Rita failed her saving throw.