Back in the early days of TJM, it took a good long while to put out a Thought. Each sentence was handcrafted and assembled by a highly trained Thought technician. Then along came Henry Ford, who changed the face of the Thought-producing world forever.
Ford doesn’t get much credit for this, but he was the inventor of the Thought assembly line, which now allows us Monkeys to mass produce our Thoughts and get them out to as many people as possible. Sure, everyone knows about the Model T, but do they know what the “T” stood for?
Before he became the automobile tycoon who turned the industrial world on its ear, Henry Ford was a struggling Internet comic. Seriously. The Model T was a Model Thought, which we here at TJM still use as the body of our pieces, our Thought chassis if you will. Porter now serves in Ford’s role as the Thought puppetmaster, er, manager, who keeps the assembly line running through verbal lashings, I mean, friendly encouragement just as Henry did before him.
So, next time you get into your Explorer or your Windstar or your Focus, just remember cars like those wouldn’t exist if not for the innovative comedic stylings of Henry Ford. And also of T.J. Monkey’s.
‘Cause we’re keeping the dream alive…