1984

February 5, 2010 · Filed Under Cartoons

Savage Chickens - 1984

Today’s cartoon is dedicated to Ms Zongker’s senior English classes!

Here’s more great literature.

Tags: 1984, Big Brother, Books, Dystopia, Future, George Orwell, Ice Cream, July, Literature, Ronald Reagan

Comments

11 Responses to “1984”

steve on February 5th, 2010 12:28 am

lol, i remember 1984, Van Halen released Jump, I was wearing short trousers and Torvill and Dean won gold for the Boléro. (I was 12 at the time.)

I had to wait a whole year before Thundercats came along…

: )
zingmeister on February 5th, 2010 1:12 am

nice one doug.

by the way, today is world nutella day!
Stacy Post on February 5th, 2010 4:31 am

Good one! I’m old enough to remember the real 1984. Madonna’s debut on American Bandstand was that year, I think, and I spent lots of time in middle school study hall, trying to figure out why she was such an instant success…? Big Brother would only watch the eighties to get a good laugh, me thinks!
Paul on February 5th, 2010 6:33 am

Ha!You have made Ms Zongker’s year, if you don’t know already. Thank you. Chickens eating ice cream…Ha!
Seraphine on February 5th, 2010 9:42 am

mr. orwell was 25 years too early.
big brother is indeed watching everything and everybody today.
(google, and apparently the chinese are watching us too…)
big brother is watching you eat your ice cream. he sees the dribble on your chin.
MrBawn on February 5th, 2010 10:32 am

Reminds me of this: http://www.egodialogues.com/words-language/huxley-orwell.php

As much as I hated Brave New World, and as much as I loved 1984, Huxley was right. Instead of controlling us by inflicting pain, they control us by inflicting pleasure.
Stace on February 5th, 2010 12:45 pm

I graduated from high school in 1984. (That makes me almost as old as dirt?) Seraphine is right about Orwell being early. We now have GPS, Google Maps/Earth, internet searches (and cookies to see where you have been searching.) Ah well, at least cookies go with icecream.
Mike T on February 5th, 2010 10:37 pm

I was born that Year !!! nothing good came after that year,
steve on February 8th, 2010 12:42 am

@MrBawn , i wish someone would inflict some pleasure on me…

: )
Luu on February 8th, 2010 7:49 am

I lived in Czechoslovakia in 1984 and Orwell was right….we definitelly had big brother here…
Aud on February 11th, 2010 10:19 pm

I was born during the right year for Ice Cream Month..mmmmmm…