We Love Eustace Tilley More Than Google Doodle Does!

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Premier Issue of  The New Yorker
Cover designed and illustrated
by  Rea Irvin

 
The  Bro-born brain trust
of the GoFather of Math
are Mr. & Mrs. CarPeo.

Mrs. C was born in Brooklyn.
Mr. C was born in  the Bronx.

For the past six months, we
had desultory discussion
about a very special
90th Birthday.

Desultory means I did
most of the talking and
Carol did most of the listening.

This image of  Eustace Tilley  was introduced
to the world on February 21, 1925.

If there is a more frequently duplicated/parodied
magazine cover image anywhere in this world,
please let us know.

What meTilley?

This re-imagined image
features  Alfred E. Neuman.

He just happened to be
one of my most important
educators but this page
is not about me.

This page is ultimately about
the GoFather of Math's guilt
for having posted absolutely
nothing on February 21, 2015.

But where there is guilt there is a need to assuage one's conscience.

Assuage one's conscience means finding someone or something
to point fingers at in a time of stress.

I am eternally grateful to the Google Doodle do-gooders for
equally ignoring that very special 90th Birthday.

Their image for that day featured sheep.

The 21st of February is the first day
of the  Year of the sheep (or ram) or (goat)  

 











It just so happens that China which has a population of 1.357 billion people
and a Gross National Product of 9.24 trillion dollars
is celebrating a New Year.

The CarPeos sincerely wish the Chinese people happiness and peace
and a most negligible amount of political repression.

But if 1.357 billion people read The New Yorker,
his would be a better world.

The CN on Eustace Tilley's lapel is a  worthwhile watermark.

The next New Yorker page is  here.
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