Friday Funnies

Keeping Wall Street above water

Henry Payne | October 3, 2008

Comments

|10.3.08 @ 7:04AM|#

I like it that he looks surprised to be helped.

JMR|10.3.08 @ 7:15AM|#

Or maybe surprised at the extent of the help?

|10.3.08 @ 7:35AM|#

...probably surprised he hasn't crushed the taxpayer yet...

|10.3.08 @ 8:02AM|#

The cutout picture on the main H&R page showed a little flesh in the lower left.

I thought that would be the taxpayers head.

|10.3.08 @ 8:08AM|#

Wall St. apparently has so much money it could afford laser hair removal on its legs, but then after the beginning of the economic crisis, couldn't pay for the remainder of the treatments on its chest.

All in all, not bad. You guys are getting better at picking 'em

|10.3.08 @ 8:27AM|#

Hmm. It's OK. At least it's not Bok.

|10.3.08 @ 9:12AM|#

Hmm. It's OK. At least it's not Bok.

But still not funny. Unoriginal and misses the point. There should be a tidal wave rolling in behind them.

Joel|10.3.08 @ 9:16AM|#

Picky, picky, picky.

|10.3.08 @ 9:24AM|#

There should be a tidal wave rolling in behind them.

Can you draw? Because that's pretty good.

ed|10.3.08 @ 10:06AM|#

I'm assuming the "taxpayer lifeguard" didn't get into more house than he could afford, has his credit cards payed off and is driving a seven-year-old car.

|10.3.08 @ 10:13AM|#

I think it misses the point because it looks like the lifeguard just has a little ways to go and he's gonna be ok.

|10.3.08 @ 10:13AM|#

ed just decribed me, except I have an 8-almost-9 year old car (and what a beauty it is)

|10.3.08 @ 10:16AM|#

Moose! Glory hole!

|10.3.08 @ 10:16AM|#

I wish I could draw.

sage|10.3.08 @ 10:19AM|#

I heard you draw flies, PL.

I keed, I keed!

|10.3.08 @ 10:21AM|#

Sometimes, I wonder who you people really are.

|10.3.08 @ 10:24AM|#

We're raping you, ProL. We're raping you so hard the room is going to stink.

|10.3.08 @ 10:29AM|#

I know who you are, Episiarch. You'd better behave or I'm going to run a special on you over at Urkobold. We're the ones that made Eric disappear in Mexico and made Edward go batshit insane.

|10.3.08 @ 10:33AM|#

Don't threaten me, dude. I'm a little crazy today.

"Orange is much more threatening than yellow."

|10.3.08 @ 10:35AM|#

You bring this blog's ratings down, Episiarch, and we'll do a special on you!

|10.3.08 @ 10:36AM|#

What if I threaten to threaten you? Kind of a metathreatening? Is that okay?

|10.3.08 @ 10:38AM|#

I bring this blog's ratings up! Wildcard, bitches!

I'd do the same for Urkobold but your horrendous, awful black color scheme hurts my lying eyes.

|10.3.08 @ 10:42AM|#

Kind of a metathreatening? Is that okay?

Meta anything is okay.

|10.3.08 @ 10:48AM|#

cmace: "The cutout picture on the main H&R page showed a little flesh in the lower left.

I thought that would be the taxpayers head."

hahaha. I thought the exact same thing.

|10.3.08 @ 10:51AM|#

That's it, Epi! I'm moving to Tijuana! Please don't try to contact me ever again

Dagny T.|10.3.08 @ 10:52AM|#

You'd better behave or I'm going to run a special on you over at Urkobold.

Yay! Accompanied by cartoons, plz!

I'd do the same for Urkobold but your horrendous, awful black color scheme hurts my lying eyes.

Then do a little pro bono design consulting, dude. Maybe work off a circle of hell or two. Problem solved! [mutters something about "useless chick" my ass]

|10.3.08 @ 10:56AM|#

Take off the wedding dress, moose. It's just creepy.

Then do a little pro bono design consulting, dude. Maybe work off a circle of hell or two. Problem solved! [mutters something about "useless chick" my ass]

I'm color blind, dude, but even I can grasp TOTAL BLACK. The "useless chick" thing was to include you! Don't take it the wrong way.

the innominate one|10.3.08 @ 11:04AM|#

I thought it was pretty good and to the point, although Warren's and some other suggestions would have been improvements on the concept.

Also, I like metametaism.

Zaphod Beeblebrox: "All the buttons are labeled in black on a black background and every time I push one, a little black light lights up black!"

|10.3.08 @ 11:16AM|#

I'd change the look of the site, but the Urkobold likes black. Feel free to correct him.

Dagny T.|10.3.08 @ 11:26AM|#

The "useless chick" thing was to include you! Don't take it the wrong way.

"What are you guys doing, shooting a porno? ...Never mind, I don't care."

|10.3.08 @ 11:32AM|#

This cartoon is too subtle. Replace the Wall Street dude with a cat, and then have a caption (with an arrow pointing to him) saying "Wall Street Fat Cat". Sarah Palin might be reading this.

Oh, and the lifeguard can have a thought bubble saying "Well at least my employer will be forced to cover my ennui just like they do my sciatica, and it won't cost me a dime more!" and then have an asterisk at the bottom that explains the various riders attached to the bailout bill.

Can you add blinking text? I'm pretty good with HTML...

|10.3.08 @ 11:37AM|#

"We're going to tell these parole board dickheads that you raped us!"

hmmmm|10.3.08 @ 1:25PM|#

sphincter mouth....

|10.3.08 @ 8:46PM|#

But, why is Nixon the taxpayer lifeguard?