Solar Eclipse "Get your ass to totality" Cartoons

- by Bill Kramer

Get your ass to totality! This slogan is used on T-shirts from the Great American Eclipse web site and are for sale online (click here). They were also on sale at the SEC2014 in New Mexico. The saying prompted more than one discussion. The following cartoons are based on my own theories of where the logo originated. None are actually true according to the web master at Great American Eclipse. His version is tamer.

Bottom line, if you are in the USA in August of 2017, you should "get your ass to totality". And I am not talking about the type of ass also known as a donkey. Unless that donkey can talk, leave it behind. No, get yourself to totality is the message. You have got to see it if you can, nothing really compares.

The web site Great American Eclipse has a collection of maps and details about the 2017 eclipse. The last time a total solar eclipse cast a shadow on the continental USA was in 1979, and that was just in the NW corner, in February. It was not a well attended eclipse. The 2017 eclipse will take place in August, when weather is normally good, and crosses from Oregon to South Carolina.

So do your best to get your ass to totality!

Click the image for a higher resolution display. You can use these images in your own presentations with the following acknowledgement: Image (c)Bill Kramer, www.eclipse-chasers.com. For commercial requests (publications) please contact me.

	Birth of a slogan: How did EclipseMaps.Com come up with the "Get your ass to totality" slogan. Here is one of my theories.
	Birth of a slogan: How did EclipseMaps.Com come up with the "Get your ass to totality" slogan. Here is another one of my theories.
	Birth of a slogan: How did EclipseMaps.Com come up with the "Get your ass to totality" slogan. Here is yet another one of my theories, it came from the Amish areas?

All eclipse cartoons were created by Bill Kramer using an iPad and the ArtRage drawing program.

 

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