John Gruber @gruber.foo · Mar 7 Years ago my wife got me a t-shirt with this delightful sequence from "Curious George Takes a Job". I wore that t-shirt out.
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I too shopped at Hot Topic!
This brings back childhood memory 😂 between this, Dumbo, and my dad’s Bloom County and Doonesbury comic strip books, I had a lot of childhood expectations for hallucinogens 😅
Oh man. The hours I spent every evening reading Curious George stories to my son in the 90’s. He was obsessed. I think this was the story where George’s crazy destructive antics at the hospital made “little Betsy” smile again 😀
I had that t-shirt also and wore it until it was thread bare.
I absolutely loved Curious George as a child.
I remember the book and the shirt!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
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I literally have a tattoo of the George with wings
I need some ether NOW!
TIL HA Rey huffed ether. I didn't think it was possible to like him more than I already did, but I was wrong.
Sweet vitriol.
My first comment on Bluesky but since I’m an anesthesiologist and have little kids I felt obligated. This cartoon is awesome, thanks!
Best roly-poly feeling in the world
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stoner monkey!
I was so confused by this as a child. Like what is "ether?" I couldn't figure out if it was bad or good because George was smiling but everyone else was upset.
Well Howdy there, Internet People!
Apparently, this is all you can get now. T-shirt printers said "fuck all those words"
My uncle is an Anesthesiologist. He had this shirt and loved it 🤣
Curious George
Aren’t we all curious George? I only ever saw one in the last frame. Had no clue such a treasure existed 💗
I used to have that shirt. It was one of my favorites. I wore it until it was holes held together by threads. I miss it.
My favorite was Curious George vomiting off the side of a ship.
CG dies, I remember a Curious George store in Harvard Square, Cambridge
I has this book when I was a kid.
I wore out my Daring Fireball t-shirt.
I fucking love that CG sequence. I'm waiting for the "George Visits the Dispensary" book!
I also owned that shirt.
Great way to tell me you watched Severance last night without telling me you watched Severance last night. Love that comic panel.
Loved that book et al growing up! I wanted a monkey of course my parents shot that down
I think teepublic.com has a variant of this available. (I wore mine out, too!) Search term: Curious George.
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RFK Jr.
Kid "Curious George", Adult "Teen Wolf"
The latest episode of Severence
I’m slow. Don’t get it. Maybe it’s the Gen X in me
I loved curious George more than my kids did when they were little...
When I was a kid stuff like that made me curious about drugs. Thankfully not enough to try them.
Hi John Gruber. I am John Gruber as well.
Where? Where did to where it out? To dinner? To the movies?
Curious George was fundamentally, a scientist.
I remember that book! ❤️
I love Curious George! And this is fantastic!
Holy shit. I remember that story from when I was little.
Loved Curious George as a child!!
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Wait. THAT'S what that was? I remember that story. I thought it was ink.
Okayy poppers
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a curious monkey in the depths of an ether binge.
Alt title: "Curious George Takes an Ether Frolic".
I have these as refrigerator magnets
lotta ether and "spanish fly" in old cartoons
And it made me learn more English grammar (he were) today!
Why is the nurse the only person who looks shocked and concerned while the other two look happy?
This was my fav CG sequence as a boy. That and the steam shovel.
I have this shirt and wear it to work often! Curious George is so pure.
I had that shirt.
No it was, “Curious George Goes to the Hospital”. He ate a puzzle piece and had to have surgery.
This was the last Curious George book
I absolutely loved Curious George, wait, yeah I have always loved him. 😁👍
I have the one where he’s just out
This is amazing.
Thank you so much for posting this! This brings me so many great memories of George!
Very timely given Severance’s alternative world of corporately pumped ether addiction.
I had that shirt. Stole it from my brother. Fuck that guy.
I remember reading these to my kids
As a children's book and tv writer, I resent the freedom that writers for children had back in the day to get characters inebriated.
I love Curious George
One should replace the word "ether" with "MAGA."
“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.” - HST
Love that. @jugbandhero.bsky.social
I loved reading this book when my kids were little! Also the one where Curious George relaxing with a nice pipe.
a job at the Lumon ether factory?
I hope you’re watching #Severance ❤️
Those books are so great :))
Ether: "if you could boil off all the silly water from booze, and just have the 100% pure drunk stuff." : Ether.
I remember that from the book very well. It may have had an unfortunate effect on my later life, now that I think of it....🙂
Omg. I had completely forgotten about that, but now it is coming back vividly. I blame this book for so much now. It clearly polluted my subconscious
Had this book and loved it.
Curious George! My first comic books.
I used to gig with this horn player who had eyebrows like George. The ladies just adored him.
Last Oscar we got a good suggestion for who should play The Man in Yellow...
Some days you just need to huff something and take a nap
Fascinating
I looked at those two pages over and over. It may have been my favorite. Had no idea why!
I had this book!
I want this!!!
Nice.😆
Severance spoilers
Speaking of wearing t-shirts out, I need a new daringfireball.net t-shirt @gruber.foo.
Love him
I had that t-shirt also! Totally wore it out over a period of about three years.
I understand. Now I want one. Your wife is a keeper.
I need this.