Yes, but you can't assume that everyone reading your cartoon has the same level of cultural knowledge as you. Readers are allowed to be ignorant. That doesn't completely invalidate their responses. It's not an academic article, it's a newspaper, it's meant to be read by absolutely anyone, and also note that it's for a British audience rather than an American one.
I didn't see the cartoon as looking like anything, to be honest. I have no idea what bowling balls look like, and I don't think of coconuts as looking that way either. I got the Homer Simpson reference and then stared at the cartoon wondering why it showed Obama with holes in his head. I'd read about the disability gaffe, but even after I was told it was a bowling ball I didn't connect it to that.
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Date: 2009-03-24 09:48 am (UTC)I didn't see the cartoon as looking like anything, to be honest. I have no idea what bowling balls look like, and I don't think of coconuts as looking that way either. I got the Homer Simpson reference and then stared at the cartoon wondering why it showed Obama with holes in his head. I'd read about the disability gaffe, but even after I was told it was a bowling ball I didn't connect it to that.