{"id":7220,"date":"2012-03-26T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:53:45","slug":"patch-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/03\/26\/patch-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Your Patch Say About You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/goofy-ideas\/comics-head-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"COMICS-HEAD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4243\" title=\"COMICS-HEAD\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack-patches.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7222\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/03\/26\/patch-you\/sadsack-patches\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack-patches.jpg?fit=640%2C451&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,451\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sadsack-patches\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack-patches.jpg?fit=640%2C451&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7222\" title=\"sadsack-patches\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack-patches.jpg?resize=640%2C451&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack-patches.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack-patches.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Only your inability to sew and your Mother&#8217;s unwillingness to sew them on a <em>really boss<\/em> denim jacket saved you from looking like an utter horse&#8217;s ass.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is from <em><strong>Sad Sack: Navy Gobs &#8216;n&#8217; Gals<\/strong><\/em> No. 6 published in 1973 by Harvey Comics. It&#8217;s pretty bad. The drawings are terrible and the jokes feel like stuff that Mort Walker threw out for <em><strong>Beetle Bailey.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/03\/26\/patch-you\/sadsack\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack.jpg?fit=640%2C946&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,946\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sadsack\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack.jpg?fit=640%2C946&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7221\" title=\"sadsack\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sadsack.jpg?resize=448%2C662&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"662\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only your inability to sew and your Mother&#8217;s unwillingness to sew them on a really boss denim jacket saved you from looking like an utter horse&#8217;s ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[1457,1458],"class_list":["post-7220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-hippie-patches","tag-sad-sack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1Ss","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18716,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/05\/12\/turned-on-supernatural-effects\/","url_meta":{"origin":7220,"position":0},"title":"Turned On &#038; Supernatural Effects","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the '70s while my parents shopped for clothes and boring stuff, my younger brother and I were left to our own devices wandering the toy and record sections of the department stores that anchored the shopping malls. 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