About a month into the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, I phoned St. Petersburg Times award-winning editorial cartoonist Don Addis with an idea for a cartoon to run the morning after the possible forced resignation of President Clinton. Addis knew me pretty well as founder of Tampa Bay Skeptics and editor of its quarterly newsletter, for which he graciously created cartoons from its 1988 inception until his death in 2009. And I knew that he hated receiving bright ideas from Times readers. But after I offered to take no credit for the cartoon's inevitable Pulitzer Prize, Don agreed to at least give me a hearing.

My suggested cartoon, to run the morning after Clinton's resignation: Have a very dignified image of the White House, with the flag at half-staff for the "loss" of the President, but replace Old Glory with a pair of trousers, the legs flapping in the breeze, and the fly prominently unzipped.

But nearly three months into that interminable scandal, with Clinton's Lewinsky-related resignation seeming far less likely, rather than scrapping my now-probably-obsolete idea, Don decided to refit it (with a speech balloon indicating that the flag was being hoisted back up from half-staff) and run it the day after the airwaves were saturated with the news that a judge had granted Clinton's motion for dismissal of the sexual harrassment lawsuit brought by Paula Jones (Clinton nevertheless wound up paying Jones $800,000, and here's why the cartoon was apropos).

As a credit, Don included an inconspicuous (to anyone not made aware of its presence) "GP" (see red circle above).

He also gave me the original artwork containing a handwritten "Gary—Thanks for the idea!" in the upper-right corner (see photo below):