Today’s inadvertent and involuntary guffaw

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I was looking for something completely unrelated, something actually having to do with work if you can believe it, when I ran across the image above this morning — and laughed.

Guiltily.

I mean, it’s a cruel joke, in a sense, mocking mothers’ attempts to get their kids to feel some concern for hungry children in distant lands.

Then there’s the tasteless suggestion that children should be something other than sober.

But hey, it’s grown men in the picture, and men dressed like Daddy in cliche depictions from the ’40s and ’50s, which in the Age of Irony is automatically laugh-worthy, right? Nothing so laughable as uptight white guys trying to get down, is there?

Anyway, however one may overthink it afterwards, it cracked me up when I found it unexpectedly…

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