IGNORE THIS SIGN? Hell, just ignore them all, you seem not give a f&$% about anyone but yourself. I have friends (pedestrians) who were hit by drivers that thought it was cool to COAST ON THROUGH. ? Who looks at construction work and thinks " PORK BARREL PROJECT?!" I *wish* workers would come and fix my damned pot-holed street. Who are these "drivers"? Are these the same assholes who tailgate, run reds, talk / text and drive. Archy's best friend was an alley cat named "Mehitabel," and the two of them shared a series of day-to-day adventures that made satiric commentary on daily life in the city during the 1910s and 1920s. Archy would climb up onto the typewriter and hurl himself at the keys, laboriously typing out stories of the daily challenges and travails of a cockroach. Archy (whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form) was a cockroach who had been a free-verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left. In 1916, Marquis introduced a fictional cockroach named "Archy" into his daily newspaper column at The New York Evening Sun. The published editions of these stories were originally illustrated by George Herriman, the creator and illustrator of Krazy Kat.
Collections of these stories are still sold in print today. Written as fictional social commentary and intended as a space-filler to allow Marquis to meet the challenge of writing a daily newspaper column six days a week, archy and mehitabel is Marquis' most famous work.
Word of the Day: ARCHY ( 35D: Don Marquis's six-legged poet) -Īrchy and Mehitabel (styled as archy and mehitabel) is the title of a series of newspaper columns written by Don Marquis beginning in 1916. THEME: "Drivers' Translations" - theme answers = what a (cynical asshole) driver thinks when he/she sees various road signs