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From Wilson Gray and Bert Vaux on Facebook, this New Yorker cartoon by Danny Shanahan:

A pun on get help, turning on who plays the benefactee role in help-getting: the drowning man (‘get help for me’), or Lassie (‘get help for yourself’).

As a bonus, another Shanahan pun cartoon:

This one is simpler: school ‘educational institution’ vs. school ‘group of fish’.

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