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"Two hundred bucks a month." Yeah, those times weren't so long ago, when people somehow managed to actually live on that. The theme of this cartoon is summed up in one punchy word: "styob." This word, alas, has no equivalent in literary language. But who needs that "literary" language anyway. That's what it's there for — writing smart books — but we talk a different language.