Reader's Digest Cartoon - Roy Delgado

This drawing appears on page 186 in the September 2011 issue of the Reader's Digest Magazine.

They were wise in printing it large, almost a half-page, because the small helicopter emerging from the bottle would have made it unintelligible in print.

Obviously, this is a take-off on the old cliche of the model ship in a bottle sitting on the mantle.

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Reminds me of the old joke . . . a sailor talking to a civilian pointing to a ship in a bottle on the mantle . . . the sailor says:  " You think getting a ship in a bottle is hard, you ought to try getting a bottle on a ship ! "

Ouch . . .  sorry if you've heard it, but there is always some young person out there who hasn't heard it, and that is what I'm hoping for . . .

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" There is a land of the living

and a land of the dead,

and the bridge is love. "

Thornton Wilder, 1897-1975

AMERICAN AUTHOR AND DRAMATIST

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