2016 Postmortem

CTyankee

(63,912 posts) Sat Nov 19, 2016, 08:53 PM Nov 2016

"I want you to think good thoughts about a pussycat." Old New Yorker cartoon...

That cartoonist, the dog freaking out and the little old lady with a cat on her lap, telling the dog to stop freaking.

God, that's an old cartoon going back...I can't even remember the cartoonist but he was so great in the 60s and 70s...

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"I want you to think good thoughts about a pussycat." Old New Yorker cartoon... (Original Post) CTyankee Nov 2016 OP

George Booth. johnp3907 Nov 2016 #1

god, I loved him! Back when the ticket windows at Grand Central changed to OTB, he did one CTyankee Nov 2016 #2

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George Booth? MadLinguist Nov 2016 #4

johnp3907

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1. George Booth.

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Sat Nov 19, 2016, 08:55 PM

Nov 2016

I had to google it.

CTyankee

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2. god, I loved him! Back when the ticket windows at Grand Central changed to OTB, he did one

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Sat Nov 19, 2016, 09:03 PM

Nov 2016

with the little old lady yelling at the OTB guy "Whaddya mean I can't buy a ticket to Larchmont!"

Memories of my days in New York, commuting from Westchester into the city for my job...I still adore GC Terminal...

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MadLinguist

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4. George Booth?

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Sat Nov 19, 2016, 10:41 PM

Nov 2016

Caption: “I want you to start thinking good thoughts about someone new at our house. I want you to start thinking good thoughts about a pussy cat.” Cartoon by George Booth, from his 1975 collection, Think Good Thoughts About a Pussy Cat.]

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