The fat lady on holiday destroying weighing machines is a theme McGill returned to again and again. In this particular version the image has been published with at least three different captions.
Published in the XL Series.
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No. R. 2045
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When people went on their annual week's holiday they would often have the chance to eat better than they would for the rest of the year. And not having to work meant they didn't burn off the calories. The result being that many people would return from holiday having put on weight and this was the basis for all the postcard jokes about fat people on holiday.
McGill seems to have been in favour of sex equality as he would often do a male and female version of the same situation. There are some weighing machine cards where he has done this, although I have not come across a male equivalent of this one yet.
