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Total loss

by on May 14, 2024

The Oregon Daily Journal (Portland, Oregon), February 13, 1915 –

I must confess, I’m at a total loss to understand this joke.

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  • polt6c77e5a70fb July 17, 2024, 3:32 pm

    I think the (hardly funny) concept is that foreign names are so weird that they look like the typewriter malfunctioned.

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    • Mark Adams July 17, 2024, 3:44 pm

      That was my sense of it. Seems the editor had an interesting cartoon and just wrote whatever.

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