That was the intent, Donuel, but I don't think the balance of the cartoon was done well. If, for example, there had been a picture of a redneck at a computer in the lower right corner, dreaming up these fantasies, it would have been much less ambiguous.

As it is, it speaks successfully only to a narrow audience of educated New Yorker reader types. Humour has to be a little further-reaching than that to work.


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