I do not get the meaning of the graphic which accompanies Cecil’s explanation about Levis’ stitching. The column is here.
It shows a heavy person in a pair of jeans wearing cowboy boots. Fine. Instead of a torso or head the graphic shows inside the jeans is some kind of a pot or barrel with liquid splashing out. Is this supposed to represent the paint which was once used to paint on the stitches? I don’t get it. Does anyone have a better interpretation?
Also is Slug Signorino’s identity as much as a mystery as Cecil’s? He is supposed to be a succesful commercial artist. Does anyone know who he is, or is he also a registerd trademark?
I don’t clearly get it either, but I have a couple of different wild guesses to add to yours. The vessel in the jeans appears to be a cast-iron pot. Below the waist, the figure is chubby, or “pot-bellied.” Now, if the liquid in the pot were honey, perhaps this is a surreal representation of somebody Slug calls “honey-pot.”
By the way, did you notice Slug’s initials stitched into the back pocket?
It’s possible, too, that this column was originally half of a two-parter (it is rather short). In that case, the other half of the column may have related in some way to cauldrons. Probably, future generations of Dopers will wonder why Cecil is staring at a pie chart while he’s being bled, as well.
Those are some imaginative suggestions, AskNott.
I think Chronos probably has the answer. Thinking back the graphic often has details from several of Cecils’s answers. Thanks.