Bad Taste: natural wastage

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 166, 3 October 1980 · p. 7 of the scan · 129 words

The scan: sc-n166-oct-03-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 7, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: natural wastage. Note: no number printed ("Cormac:-"); October 1980.

page 7 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: how pleasant to be young and healthy, how nice to have a job and be a productive member of society — and how strange to find yourself described, as the years pass, by that charming phrase "natural wastage". — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 166, 3 October 1980, page 7. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac:-

2. Thinks: "How pleasant it is to be young and healthy!"

3. Thinks: "How nice it is to have a job! You're a productive member of society!"

4. Thinks: "How strange to feel the years passing and then to find yourself described ..."

5. Thinks: "... by that charming phrase 'natural wastage'!"

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