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What the...! It's a typo! It's supposed to say 'pirates', not 'primates', for cryin' out loud!'
What the...! It's a typo! It's supposed to say 'pirates', not 'primates', for cryin' out loud!'
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What the...! It's a typo! It's supposed to say 'pirates', not 'primates', for cryin' out loud!'

Vance Rodewalt was the political cartoonist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Issue: International shipping; piracy in Somalia. At the seaside, a monkey stands in front of a desk labeled 'Somali pirates 'r' us'; a pirate sits at the desk reading a newspaper whose headline states 'help wanted'. 
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Date 2008-11-23 
Creator Rodewalt, Vance
Genre Photographs
Subject Caricatures and cartoons, Employee selection, Employment agencies, Hijacking of ships, International offenses, Monkeys, Pirates, Reading, Security, International
Archival Information
Repository Glenbow Archives
Fonds/Collection Vance Rodewalt fonds
Reference code CA ACU GBA F3016 
Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/vance-rodewalt-fonds
Unique identifier CU234678 
Legacy Identifier m-9457-1389 
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Attribution "What the...! It's a typo! It's supposed to say 'pirates', not 'primates', for cryin' out loud!'", 2008-11-23, (CU234678) by Rodewalt, Vance. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.