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# "Both Correct" - Life Magazine, August 30, 1888 This cartoon satirizes a conversation about yachts between Lieutenant Goldbraid and Miss Carlton. The humor relies on a misunderstanding: Goldbraid compliments "Miss Carlton," describing her as a "beautiful yacht," while Miss Carlton believes he's calling her a "sideboard yacht" (a smaller, inferior vessel type). The joke plays on the ambiguity of "your" — Goldbraid means her actual yacht, Miss Carlton, while she thinks he's comparing *her* to a yacht. Both interpret the exchange as complimentary, hence "both correct," though for entirely different reasons. It's a Victorian-era pun about courtship miscommunication dressed in nautical terminology.
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t.> Par SPEER SE STE PF , VOLUME XII. NEW YORK, AUGUST 30, 1888. Entered at the New York Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. Copyright, 1888, by Mrrcwnit & Miter, NUMBER 296. BOTH CORRECT. Lieutenant Goldbraid: AW—BEAUT'FUL YACHT, Misi CARLTON. Miss Carlton (coldly): YES, VERY. Lieutenant Goldbraid: AW—A1'S (hic) SKUSE ME—CENTIROARD YACHT, Y'KNOW. Afiss Carlton: 1 MAD SUPPOSED IT TO BE A SIDEBOARD YACHT. comicbooks.com