![]() ![]() ![]() I've heard this is what they did in old houses prior to outlets being required on every wall. What I find fascinating, though, is the fact that the toaster, the coffee maker, and the waffle iron are all plugged into the light fixture overhead. For example, in one cartoon, a wife is rigging up wires to electrocute her husband at breakfast. I looked at the illustrations of rooms and houses and cars and clothes, once so commonplace but now distracting enough that they took preeminence over the jokes. I loved the fact they were written so long ago. ![]() (Now I'm thinking about Morticia, but this book of cartoons only has one "Addams Family" cartoon in it.) ![]() That made me wonder - was Chas Addams unhappily married? Looking at the bio in the book, his first two marriages seem as though they were beds of thorns, not beds of roses. Mainly I was entranced by the fact that the majority of the cartoons cover ways for wives to kill their husbands and husbands to kill their wives. There were a couple that were laugh out loud funny to me. They span several decades - the 1930s through the 1980s. This compilation of Charles Addams' cartoons contains many that were previously published in the New Yorker and some that were never published at all. ![]()
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