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Capitalism triumphs again in this cartoon from a novelty ink blotter dating to the 1950s. Ink blotters, by the way, were absorbent cards used to soak up excess ink from your fountain pen. Thanks to the invention of the ballpoint, they were a dying technology when this one, celebrating future technology, was printed.
1:30 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Lynn Peril
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Either the picture is broken, or those blotters soaked up way too much ink.
Yeah, getting all white here too.
A wry commentary on the triumph of capitalism.
"A cow eating grass."
Beautiful!
gaah! I really want to see a retro-futuristic ink blotter! What happened to the links?!
I'm most impressed with the dry humor of horoscope. Could have been lifted straight from John Oliver.
@92BuickLeSabre: You mean John Hodgman, right? The funny, dry daily show John, not the tremendously unfunny British daily show John?
@Damonicus: What the hell are you talking about again?
@Pope John Peeps II: What the hell are you talking about again?
@Pope John Peeps II: My Daily Show John reference was selected carefully. It's funny and dry, but it's not that funny and dry.
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