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It no doubt was the bane of all but the most enlightened parents and teachers.
A Jaffee-drawn guy might walk up to a crumpled automobile and ask, Have an accident?
The replies would include No, Im starting a junk yard!
(Why not?)
Quite a few of the rest are infomercial-ready.
(A sound-generating machine for bathrooms to obscure toilet noises during parties?But wait!
They were Easter eggs before we had that term.
Jaffee did not have that kind of childhood.
It was an unstable and chaotic youth.
Which brings us to the Fold-In.
The buzzer says, How about a foldout-foldout-foldout, one that goes on for twelve feet?
Like the Snappy Answers column, it incorporated a question-and-response.
It is, Id argue, an early gesture in the direction of the joke GIF.
Each took him a couple of weeks.
Jaffee told Weisman he sweated the first couple of hundred.
Instead, the editors ran it to mark his 99th birthday in 2020.
And what is the hidden message of that final Fold-In?
Why is the What, Me Worry?
Smokestacks emit white plumes behind the words ECONOMY COLLAPSING!
A very snappy, and pretty un-stupid, final answer.
