Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for August 02, 2021

Somehow part A got separated from part B, originally.

Panel 2: WHAAAAAAAAAAA?!

So, perfect for a screenplay then?

I’m pretty sure that’s a stolen quip. Not from Oscar Wilde, I think.

Some movie producer, maybe?

Originally it was good. Then some editor got his / her hands on it.

So Cosmo is effed again!

That’s basically what the Orthodox rabbi that visited my Sunday school said about Jesus.

OLD joke, but a good one.

Like the curate’s egg – good in parts.

This joke may predate Homo Erectus, if not Including results for Australopithecus africanus..

This joke is certainly over 200 years old.

You should have seen this coming Cosmo, your manuscript is getting the ax.

I am not very ‘literary’ (if that is a word). I had to read it twice to ketch it’s meaning. LOL

What is new is not good; and what is good is not new.What is new is not true; and what is true is not new.What is original is not good; what is good is not original.What is new is not valuable; what is valuable is not new.Reverend Martin Sherlock

Reminds me of when Dashiell Hammett was writing in Hollywood and reacted to some producer’s criticism: “If I were any worse, you wouldn’t have ask me to come; if I were any better I wouldn’t be here.”

The amazing thing is, it’s a autobiography.

IIRC from a editor, or writer.May hap Johnson, (British chap writer of dictionary)