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# "The Absorbing Adventures of Professor Blotter" This is a humorous story about Professor Blotter's impractical invention: a New Year's calendar made of pastry designed to be eaten daily. The satire mocks both the Professor's eccentric inventiveness and the era's obsession with novelty products. The main cartoon shows Blotter attempting to create a bell mechanism that rings when a card is removed—an overly complicated solution to a simple problem. The joke critiques how inventors sometimes pursue absurdly complex designs when simple alternatives exist. The bottom cartoon depicts Blotter presenting his idea to someone, satirizing the common pattern of inventors pitching impractical schemes. The humor derives from the fundamental impracticality: a pastry calendar would be unsanitary, fragile, and absurd.
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The Absorbing Adventures fg of Professor Blotter Proresson Buorrer, who in- vented a New Year's calendar made out of pastry, so that it could be taken down and eaten on Janu- ary 2, has devoted no little time to the perplexing problems that the holiday season presents. It was Blotter who carned the un- dying gratitude of thousands by per- fecting a post office stamp that could he set bh tion of the u day or so at the discre- As a result of his 68 people receiving *s Day mvention unexpected cards on were able to send 39 The Professor is at present tr to discover how to tell whether a New Year's cand is really engra ed without running your finger over the printing. Blotter’s first idea was to set up Testing fying glass ions, with big magni- and acid tubes, and a large bell which would ring whenever a card was really engraved. Unfor- tunately, he was halted in this plan by the slight difficulty of discovering a way to make the bell ring. He has the rest of the test ready, however, once he figures that ow “In the meantime,” said Blotter, “T have prepared an alternate plan. The idea occurred to me when I ob- served the edge of a New Year's card and noted that the cardboard was composed entirely of little paper one on top of another. ing at the bottom, I propose to re- move layer by layer until I eventu- “Mother, T wanna introduce you to a life-long friend ally reach the top. When I peel off of mine.” CARIN . Ance ndon sale. "4 the top layer,” he concluded trium- phantly, “then what is left is the engraving.” “If there isn’t,” he added, “it wasn't.” Corey Ford A Flat Tire Tess—Is Fred dumb? Bess—Is_ he? He thinks “Kiss Me Again” is just the name of a song! eS AE (\ Funnybones/ — TS an : The way of the transgressor is as = — Soon hard as any other well-beaten path BystanpeR To SLEEPWALKER—Hurry up, Buddy, or you'll be outa the parade. comicbooks.com