By bats | April 8, 2010 - 2:51 pm
Posted in Category: Most maryWorthy

The first panel of the 7 April Mary Worth was so freakin’ horrifying evocative of those intense, stalwart individuals portrayed in old Soviet propaganda posters that both CC’s Vosh and Calico commented on it.  Who am I to say otherwise?

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For the record, The title of the poster comes from Vosh:  Help Destroy the Kulaks and Wreckers! Mary’s words were inspired by Calico’s words: “Through the efforts of the glorious Soviet worker, we will secure the five-year plan, Toby!”

This was all run through Babelfish, so the title might be a call for eating more potatoes, and Mary might be spouting gibberish.  And “Toby,” the last word in Mary’s dire pronouncement, comes from typing “Toby directly into PhotoShop’s Cyrillic text.  (Don’t give me any grief that it doesn’t spell Toby or that it spells something else.  It gave me fits as how to include Cyrillic script and get something more intelligible — relatively speaking — than ??? ?????? ??? ????.  Yet I persevered, since I’m well aware that in the Soviet Union, mashups mash you!)

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