"You Want It When?"

[Wilson Gray]

"Draught[ing]" reminds me of a patent medicine from my childhood. For
advertising purposes, its manufacturer supplied a free calendar that read
"Black Draught!" To this was added the note: "(Sometimes called 'Black
Drawt'}." This was back in the days when "drouth" was a common and accepted
alternative to the now-standard spelling, "drought." (The pronunciation
rhymed with "out," regardless of the spelling.)

-Wilson

On 4/21/06, neil <neil at typog.co.uk> wrote:
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> >> "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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> >> There is a cartoon with little caricature guys laughing
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> >> caption "You Want It When?". Mark Evanier discusses it in
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> >> http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_04_12.html#011322
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> >> and wants to know its origins. Anyone on the list got a
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> I have a framed cartoon, acquired some time in the 1980s, depicting a monk
> in a scriptorium breaking off from lovingly draughting an illuminated
> manuscript initial to respond to the abbot leaning over him with the
> words:
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> "Deadline? No one told me about a f**king deadline!"
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> --Neil Crawford
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