Judge — August 29, 1925 — page 22: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a satirical cartoon titled "In the Year 2000" imagining futuristic railroad stations. The joke depicts a person who missed their 8:15 train, then missed the 8:20 station itself—suggesting that by 2000, stations will move so fast they'll overtake late passengers. The humor lies in the absurdist premise: a sign promises the station will "catch" missed trains for you by moving faster than the trains themselves. This satirizes both technological optimism and the frustration of missing transportation. The cartoon mocks the common experience of being late while extrapolating it to an ridiculous future where even the infrastructure becomes mobile and unreliable. The O.U.P.R. (likely a fictional railroad) represents exaggerated solutions to modern commuting problems through increasingly absurd means rather than practical solutions.