1/ Woman weighing herself on scale and receiving fortune card.

2/ Dog and brandy cask.

3/ Man with cast in hospital bed.

4/ Two women wearing identical gowns.

5/ Safari.

6/ Asking a boss for a raise.

7/ Child wants drink of water in the middle of the night.

8/ Skater making figure eight.

9/ Clock watchers in office.

10/ Little walking toys.

11/ Man painting himself into the corner of a room.

12/ Housing development– houses look alike.

13/ Business charts in office.

14/ Fever charts in hospital.

15/ Avant-garde painting or sculpture.

16/ Flooded cellars.

17/ Neighbors borrowing garden tools.

18/ Women over-shopping.

19/ Computers.

20/ High cost of living.

21/ Tattoos on sailors.

22/ Gals coming out of large cake.

23/ Thirsty man crawling in desert.

24/ Scientists reading old scrolls– Egyptian hieroglyphics.

25/ Psychoanalyst and couch.

26/ Marriage counsellors.

27/ Expectant father– maternity ward.

28/ Auto driving schools.

29/ Men carrying billboards.

30/ Motorcycle cop hidden behind billboard.

31/ Prisoner talking to wife through wire screen.

32/ Dogs biting mailmen.

33/ Martians and flying saucers.

34/ Kid on Santa’s lap.

35/ Cavemen.

36/ Son borrowing father’s car.

37/ Second in fighter’s corner giving him instructions.

38/ Two-person combination of front and rear of horse at masquerade.

39/ Kids making a racket while father is trying to sleep.

40/ Department store complaint departments.

41/ Railroad station lost and found counters.

42/ Doctor testing reflexes with little hammer.

43/ Prisoner tunneling out of jail.

44/ Tot reaching for cookie jar.

45/ Two persons duelling.

46/ Wife trying to balance household budget.

47/ Shoveling snow.

48/ Outdoor grills.

49/ Elopers and ladders.

50/ Golfer trying to break 100.

51/ Sewers and “men at work.”

52/ Ladies’ long conversations on the telephone.

53/ Brush salesmen at the door.

54/ Kissing booth at charity affair.

55/ Tunnel of love.

Marlow, J. (1967). Jack Marlow’s Cartoonist’s and Gag Writer’s Handbook. Cincinatti, Ohio: Writer’s Digest.