<div dir="ltr">Explaining jokes is always a fool's errand, and it's hard for me to see who's talking to whom about whom in the image. (And yet, in I dive.)<div><br></div><div>But the caption seems to me to capture something about the deep inside of Boston/Cambridge bourgeois-bohemianism: she's haute; he's down-to-earth NPR-listening auto-mechanic type. A joke about culture clash w/in the NPR-listening world.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Neverow, Vara S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu" target="_blank">neverowv1@southernct.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




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<p>Could the witticism be related to the woman on the right who has her face turned away and her hand to her throat as if the conversation has no appeal to her? Perhaps the cartoonist did not know that Woolf was interested in cars, as indicated by Ann Martin's
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Southern Connecticut State University<br>
New Haven, CT 06515<br>
203-392-6717<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "New Yorker" cartoon from 2003</font>
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<div>Much as I like Wm. Hamilton’s cartoons, I don’t get this one.</div>
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