This is honestly one of the most confusing things I've ever seen. Bill Gallo is a sports cartoonist, and it mentions the Giants, the Bears, and the Jets, so I'm going to venture that it's about football... but what the hell?! "Ol' Debble Upset Ink"? "Spear Carriers"? "The Bulldogs"? That diving board? Are these supposed to be sports predictions? This comic is driving me insane.
The punch line? Gallo has won the Reuben (the highest award for cartoonists) ten times, not to mention winning the Page One Journalism Award twenty times and the Power of Printing Award. Go figure.
Ah, how I love random passerby editorials. The gloriously uninformed opinions, the mistaken stabs at being witty... populism at its best. I always find it funny how frightened people were of fluoridation. They thought it would poison them, or control their minds, but they were wrong. Our minds are not controlled. Long live fluoridation! Long live our government!
I was surprised to find, though, that people still oppose fluoridation of tap water. 45 cities have stopped doing it between 1990 and 1996, and the Netherlands banned it with their constitution! Sounds like the tinfoil-hat crowd is stronger than I thought.
Okay, I know this is an ad, so it's not the Daily News's fault, but heart gas? HEART GAS?! They keep making up diseases in these ads... "heart gas," "membrane itch"... it's a wonder these people could cope. Everywhere you turn there's a new imaginary illness.
That's about it for now. Ching Chow say, "Be grateful for today's paper and keep reading the Jim Smith Archive."
