Socialist Challenge 1979 Socialist Challenge No. 112, 6 September 1979 Bad Taste no. 52: the drunken old bore
by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 112, 6 September 1979 · p. 13 of the scan · 143 words
The scan: sc-n112-sep-06-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 13, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 52 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the drunken old bore.
page 13 of the scan
Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 52, Socialist Challenge no. 112, 6 September 1979, page 13. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan. The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #52.
2. (A grinning drinker:) "Know the trouble with this country? Too many bloody foreigners! Should all be sent home!"
3. "And trouble-makers rioting in our streets — they should be flogged! Communist swine! Capital punishment! Stiffer prison sentences and ...."
4. (A customer:) "Why don't you put that drunken old bore out?" (The barmaid:) "Believe me, dear, I'd like to!" "But from the way he talks ..."
5. "I suspect that he's a high-ranking POLICE OFFICER!"
