ELECTRONIC`TECHNICIAN

Dear Reader:

You may well wonder what a no-nonsense technical trademagazine is doing publishing a cartoon book. Well, if youwant to hear something funny, listen to a serious man.

The cartoons printed here were originally published inELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN magazine. We hope that ourmore than 80,000 professional service technician sub-scribers enjoyed them. After all, all work and no playmakes jack.

But cartoons have a broader function than just entertaining.They are a commentary on human foibles and the mechanical-ly unpredictable. Pity the man who can't take a ribbing or

smile at both his own and his neighbor'shumorous predicament.

Any similarity between the cartooncharacters and living people you knowis purely intentional.

Albert J. FormanEditorELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN

Copyright 1961 by ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN, INC. 480 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y.

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"Don't ask me why-but that's where ourantenna gives us the best picture!"

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"Hand me the cheater cord."

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"It's OK now. We had put on each other'sglasses by mistake."

"Sure, I could repair it for half-price, if itwas only half a television set!"

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"Look who's complaining about a repair bill!"

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"You got a nice write-up in the paper, Tony-listen to this! Programs were resumed at theTV station after a blackout caused by techni-cal difficulties. Anthony Bokk was called inand had the station back on the air in twelveminutes. Mr. Bokk is employed by Mr. RobertAsh, who is an authority on electronics, anexpert on communication, transmitting andfield detection apparatus, now specializing inmobile radio, TV receiving sets and ... .

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"Has it started to act up yet?"

"I think it's trying to tell us something."