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title: No excuses! Watch your waste
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/no-excuses-watch-your-waste-1944/
description: 'Cartoon waste poster: a smiling sailor tips a tray of food into a garbage can and says ''My tapeworm''s on a diet!!'' under the headline ''No excuses!'''
section: Collection
---

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[![No excuses! Watch your waste, 1944 US poster: Cartoon waste poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/no-excuses-watch-your-waste-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/no-excuses-watch-your-waste-1944.jpg)

# No excuses! Watch your waste

Cartoon waste poster: a smiling sailor tips a tray of food into a garbage can and says 'My tapeworm's on a diet!!' under the headline 'No excuses!' and the line 'Watch Your Waste'. The humour of the comic sailor stands in for the argument; the technique is faint and the poster relies on an everyday figure.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NO
EXCUSES!
MY
TAPEWORM'S ON
A DIET!!
Watch Your Waste
[signature:] [illegible] USNR
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944 -- O -- 620867
```

[← Night sight can mean life or death](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/night-sight-can-mean-life-or-death-1944/) [No matter how you look at it... Victory comes high! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/no-matter-how-you-look-at-it-victory-comes-high-1944/)

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