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The Parlor Slacker: 1918
Submitted by Ken on Sat, 07/28/2007 - 8:48am.
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1918 slackers: The check dodger, car seat caretakers, the parlor slacker, slackerette and planting a grandmother. Perhaps someone could explain that last one. View full illustration.
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Planting a grandmother
Submitted by Ray Burnette on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 12:19pm.
I agree with Curvilinear. . . he's giving his boss some story about a grandmother as an excuse to leave work to attend a ball game.
Slackerette!
Submitted by Deschanel on Sat, 07/28/2007 - 3:57pm.
Sounds very modern, if you mean 1992 or so!
The "Parlor Slacker" is clearly a gay man unnerved by that brazen hussy's inappropriate advances.
No Subterfuge Experience
Submitted by Larry in Rockledge on Sat, 07/28/2007 - 9:26am.
Since Ken needed an explanation of the "planting a grandmother" illustration he apparently has not practiced the art of subterfuge. Good on him!
Planting a grandmother
Submitted by Curvilinear on Sat, 07/28/2007 - 9:12am.
Perhaps he's telling his boss his grandma died and he has to leave work to go to the funeral when he really just wants to go to the baseball game?
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