Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for September 15, 2007
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Lucky Ducky presents Poverty Lines Throughout the Ages 1800 Hound: You CAN'T be poor! You've got a SHIRT! hungry 1900 Hound: You CAN'T be poor! You've got a BED! hungry 1950 Hound: You CAN'T be poor! You've got a RADIO! hungry 1975 Hound: You CAN'T be poor! You've got a TV! hungry 1990 Hound: You CAN'T be poor! You've got a VCR! hungry 2007 Hound: Okay, you keep insisting you're poor -- I'LL give you something! hungry Hound: There! I paid a think tank to come up with this! You can't STILL say you're poor! temporary food shortage Lucky Ducky: I am! Hound: LUCKY DUCKY! I just gave you a $10 million euphemism! temporary food shortage Lucky Ducky: Gotcha! End
Margaret Thatcher: “we have the highest proportion of video recorders purchased in British homes compared with the population of any country in the world.”
And that was in 1983!