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Friday Funnies

Will the auto bailout work?

|3.13.09 @ 7:23AM|

This cartoon is a better illustration of the Friday Funnies than it is of what it purports to be.

jester|3.13.09 @ 7:38AM|

If you drop acid and stare at it for 20 min., the meaning will become very very clear.

Elemenope|3.13.09 @ 7:53AM|

Weak!

|3.13.09 @ 8:01AM|

boo. D+ reversion to the mean...

Untermensch|3.13.09 @ 8:05AM|

Come on guys. It's still better than Marmaduke, so I give it a passing grade. (Although it's hard to imagine what would fail that standard: I'm defining dumb down.)

ed|3.13.09 @ 8:21AM|

It's funnier without the caption.
D-

Guy Smiley|3.13.09 @ 8:27AM|

The driver should have a name tag that says, "Unions".

|3.13.09 @ 8:37AM|

My Friday Funny was watching Jon Stewart tear Jim Cramer a new one last night.

|3.13.09 @ 8:39AM|

Untermensch, cancer and AIDS both suck. Which one gets the passing grade?

|3.13.09 @ 8:40AM|

My Friday Funny was Syracuse beating UConn in 6 OT's, game took so long it ended on Friday.

Bingo|3.13.09 @ 8:51AM|

All of the Friday Funnies comments are always the same. Now that's funny!

|3.13.09 @ 8:58AM|

Hmmm...not bad, really. And as Untermensch points out way funnier than Marmaduke. And as a corollary* to what Bingo said, like this thread, Marmaduke is an exercise in dreadful repetition.


*mathematicians, please don't kill me. I'm trying.

|3.13.09 @ 9:02AM|

(Although it's hard to imagine what would fail that standard: I'm defining dumb down.)

Anything that fails the Marmaduke standard is technically a war crime.

Elemenope|3.13.09 @ 9:02AM|

*mathematicians, please don't kill me. I'm trying.

We use corollaries in Philosophy too, so you're safe.

Elemenope|3.13.09 @ 9:04AM|

Anything that fails the Marmaduke standard is technically a war crime.

Coming from a soldier in a war zone, that's...harsh.

|3.13.09 @ 9:09AM|

Haiku day today
Show me what you got, bitches!
Sorry, off topic

|3.13.09 @ 9:11AM|

There is no topic
More important, more vital
Than Friday haiku

|3.13.09 @ 9:13AM|

Anything that fails the Marmaduke standard is technically a war crime.

Best description of Cathy I've ever heard.

|3.13.09 @ 9:15AM|

Oh Cathy Guisewite
Why do you hate me so much
You are comic whore

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 9:16AM|

Statement is half true:
It is actually Friday.
Funny? Not so much.

|3.13.09 @ 9:16AM|

Marmaduke sucks ass
But, sadly, Friday Funnies
Fail to be better

|3.13.09 @ 9:18AM|

You don't understand
Marmaduke is big red dog
Do you get it now?

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 9:21AM|

Marmaduke, i heard
So much coke in the 80s
His nipple fell off

(thanks, Achewood.)

|3.13.09 @ 9:21AM|

You have it wrong, dude
Clifford is the big and red
That dog must poop huge

|3.13.09 @ 9:23AM|

Fat Cathy: "AACK, AACK!"
"The bikini is too small!"
Irving: "Lose weight, sow."

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 9:24AM|

Dog guano exports
Major economic deal
In Clifford's hometown

|3.13.09 @ 9:25AM|

Clifford, Marmaduke
These things are best left to suits
in Washington, dude

|3.13.09 @ 9:33AM|

Homer Simpson shocked
Cathy is woman, he asks?
To be honest, who knows?

|3.13.09 @ 9:34AM|

Lecherous Pinkley
Cathy's atrocious boss
The only one I like

|3.13.09 @ 9:36AM|

giant piles of shit

the sound of GM dying

no boo hoo from me

|3.13.09 @ 9:38AM|

Cathy? A woman?
Could have fooled me... Women should
not be shaped like tubes

|3.13.09 @ 9:43AM|

Cathy Guisewite sucks
Got Emmy in '87
Is Emmy worthless?

|3.13.09 @ 9:44AM|

naughty marmaduke

cathy gets some puppy love

go marmaduke go

Lefiti|3.13.09 @ 9:46AM|

What's really funny is how right-wing market fundies cling to the same old bromides no matter what happents in the real world.

|3.13.09 @ 9:48AM|

Lefiti is cool
I want to be just like him
But my hands chafe fast

Low-Brow|3.13.09 @ 9:49AM|

Nancy Pelosi
Plays Harry Reid of
Barack Obama

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 9:50AM|

Shorter Lefiti:
"Pay attention to me, waahhh!"
What a fucking douche.

|3.13.09 @ 9:51AM|

Haiku writing fools
ignore the master calling
the days grow longer

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 9:53AM|

Way to bash our fun,
Domoarrigato, with
Lines cribbed from Japan

|3.13.09 @ 9:55AM|

Sorry to tell you
That the date for Haiku Day
Was In December.

|3.13.09 @ 9:56AM|

This has to be done:
Uh, Domo arrigato,
Mister Roboto

|3.13.09 @ 9:57AM|

Sorry to tell you
That the date for Haiku Day
Was In December.

|3.13.09 @ 9:57AM|

re: PBrooks @ 9:44

Now that's funny. Or am I just sick?

Preston|3.13.09 @ 9:58AM|

Haha, he's all bloody.

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 9:58AM|

Whatever, crimethink
I am libertarian
I do what i want

|3.13.09 @ 10:02AM|

Libs wear Santa garb
With July sun beating down?
That would be silly

|3.13.09 @ 10:03AM|

eye of beholder

that is where the sickness lies

my hands remain clean

|3.13.09 @ 10:04AM|

crimethink says the time
for haiku has passed but knows
it will come again

|3.13.09 @ 10:09AM|

Every day can be
Haiku Day, if you open your
heart to it, crimethink

Cindhi|3.13.09 @ 10:12AM|

Am I the only one that got a good chuckle out of this one? Wow...I thought it was rather entertaining...not the best but definately one that was dead on...

|3.13.09 @ 10:16AM|

Cindhi, hating the
Funnies makes us forget how
much we hate ourselves.

Reinmoose|3.13.09 @ 10:17AM|

The Friday Funny
it doesn't make any sense
big fucking surprise

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 10:21AM|

Hey Cindhi, see,
All commentary should be
In haiku format

|3.13.09 @ 10:21AM|

Cindhi has ruined
Our haiku day with laughter
Now we hate on her

|3.13.09 @ 10:25AM|

bonus points are had
for alluding to seasons
as all haiku do

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 10:29AM|

Pedantic domo:
"Silly gaijin, not like that!"
Dude, it's Friday, chill.

|3.13.09 @ 10:39AM|

Haiku are more fun
when rules are followed my friend
I am white as snow

|3.13.09 @ 10:43AM|

obey rules he sez

how unlibertarian

go sit in corner

Cindhi|3.13.09 @ 10:50AM|

SugarFree isn't it
More fun to
discuss and disect?

Cindhi|3.13.09 @ 10:51AM|

Episiarch really?
Shove it deep
My lovely commentator.

|3.13.09 @ 10:54AM|

A cold, cold winter
has hardened my heart, Cindhi
now I wear only black

|3.13.09 @ 10:56AM|

Oh we can only
Comment in Haiku format?
My prose is wayward.

|3.13.09 @ 10:57AM|

Episiarch's never
really very "really," Cindhi
black velvet clown tears

|3.13.09 @ 10:58AM|

Cindhi, your meter
is wrong; it's five-seven-five
I just shoved it deep?

|3.13.09 @ 10:59AM|

blushing maid Cindhi
invites a chilly response
from her secret crush

tarran|3.13.09 @ 11:01AM|

Haikus are pointless
Electrical Generator
too long for last line

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 11:07AM|

tarran, five eight five?
No rule can contain you, man
Watch out for domo

Loa Tzu|3.13.09 @ 11:08AM|

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Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 7:23am | #

This cartoon is a better illustration of the Friday Funnies than it is of what it purports to be.
jester | March 13, 2009, 7:38am | #

If you drop acid and stare at it for 20 min., the meaning will become very very clear.
Elemenope | March 13, 2009, 7:53am | #

Weak!
domoarrigato | March 13, 2009, 8:01am | #

boo. D+ reversion to the mean...
Untermensch | March 13, 2009, 8:05am | #

Come on guys. It's still better than Marmaduke, so I give it a passing grade. (Although it's hard to imagine what would fail that standard: I'm defining dumb down.)
ed | March 13, 2009, 8:21am | #

It's funnier without the caption.
D-
Guy Smiley | March 13, 2009, 8:27am | #

The driver should have a name tag that says, "Unions".
John-David | March 13, 2009, 8:37am | #

My Friday Funny was watching Jon Stewart tear Jim Cramer a new one last night.
Nick | March 13, 2009, 8:39am | #

Untermensch, cancer and AIDS both suck. Which one gets the passing grade?
Nick | March 13, 2009, 8:40am | #

My Friday Funny was Syracuse beating UConn in 6 OT's, game took so long it ended on Friday.
Bingo | March 13, 2009, 8:51am | #

All of the Friday Funnies comments are always the same. Now that's funny!
Art-P.O.G. | March 13, 2009, 8:58am | #

Hmmm...not bad, really. And as Untermensch points out way funnier than Marmaduke. And as a corollary* to what Bingo said, like this thread, Marmaduke is an exercise in dreadful repetition.


*mathematicians, please don't kill me. I'm trying.
Art-P.O.G. | March 13, 2009, 9:02am | #

(Although it's hard to imagine what would fail that standard: I'm defining dumb down.)
Anything that fails the Marmaduke standard is technically a war crime.
Elemenope | March 13, 2009, 9:02am | #

*mathematicians, please don't kill me. I'm trying.

We use corollaries in Philosophy too, so you're safe.
Elemenope | March 13, 2009, 9:04am | #

Anything that fails the Marmaduke standard is technically a war crime.

Coming from a soldier in a war zone, that's...harsh.
sage | March 13, 2009, 9:09am | #

Haiku day today
Show me what you got, bitches!
Sorry, off topic
SugarFree | March 13, 2009, 9:11am | #

There is no topic
More important, more vital
Than Friday haiku
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:13am | #

Anything that fails the Marmaduke standard is technically a war crime.

Best description of Cathy I've ever heard.
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:15am | #

Oh Cathy Guisewite
Why do you hate me so much
You are comic whore
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 9:16am | #

Statement is half true:
It is actually Friday.
Funny? Not so much.
SugarFree | March 13, 2009, 9:16am | #

Marmaduke sucks ass
But, sadly, Friday Funnies
Fail to be better
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:18am | #

You don't understand
Marmaduke is big red dog
Do you get it now?
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 9:21am | #

Marmaduke, i heard
So much coke in the 80s
His nipple fell off

(thanks, Achewood.)
sage | March 13, 2009, 9:21am | #

You have it wrong, dude
Clifford is the big and red
That dog must poop huge
SugarFree | March 13, 2009, 9:23am | #

Fat Cathy: "AACK, AACK!"
"The bikini is too small!"
Irving: "Lose weight, sow."
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 9:24am | #

Dog guano exports
Major economic deal
In Clifford's hometown
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:25am | #

Clifford, Marmaduke
These things are best left to suits
in Washington, dude
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:33am | #

Homer Simpson shocked
Cathy is woman, he asks?
To be honest, who knows?
SugarFree | March 13, 2009, 9:34am | #

Lecherous Pinkley
Cathy's atrocious boss
The only one I like
P Brooks | March 13, 2009, 9:36am | #

giant piles of shit

the sound of GM dying

no boo hoo from me
SugarFree | March 13, 2009, 9:38am | #

Cathy? A woman?
Could have fooled me... Women should
not be shaped like tubes
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:43am | #

Cathy Guisewite sucks
Got Emmy in '87
Is Emmy worthless?
P Brooks | March 13, 2009, 9:44am | #

naughty marmaduke

cathy gets some puppy love

go marmaduke go
Lefiti | March 13, 2009, 9:46am | #

What's really funny is how right-wing market fundies cling to the same old bromides no matter what happents in the real world.
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:48am | #

Lefiti is cool
I want to be just like him
But my hands chafe fast
Low-Brow | March 13, 2009, 9:49am | #

Nancy Pelosi
Plays Harry Reid of
Barack Obama
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 9:50am | #

Shorter Lefiti:
"Pay attention to me, waahhh!"
What a fucking douche.
domoarrigato | March 13, 2009, 9:51am | #

Haiku writing fools
ignore the master calling
the days grow longer
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 9:53am | #

Way to bash our fun,
Domoarrigato, with
Lines cribbed from Japan
crimethink | March 13, 2009, 9:55am | #

Sorry to tell you
That the date for Haiku Day
Was In December.
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 9:56am | #

This has to be done:
Uh, Domo arrigato,
Mister Roboto
crimethink redux | March 13, 2009, 9:57am | #

Sorry to tell you
That the date for Haiku Day
Was In December.
Art-P.O.G. | March 13, 2009, 9:57am | #

re: PBrooks @ 9:44

Now that's funny. Or am I just sick?
Preston | March 13, 2009, 9:58am | #

Haha, he's all bloody.
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 9:58am | #

Whatever, crimethink
I am libertarian
I do what i want
crimethink | March 13, 2009, 10:02am | #

Libs wear Santa garb
With July sun beating down?
That would be silly
P Brooks | March 13, 2009, 10:03am | #

eye of beholder

that is where the sickness lies

my hands remain clean
domoarrigato | March 13, 2009, 10:04am | #

crimethink says the time
for haiku has passed but knows
it will come again
SugarFree | March 13, 2009, 10:09am | #

Every day can be
Haiku Day, if you open your
heart to it, crimethink
Cindhi | March 13, 2009, 10:12am | #

Am I the only one that got a good chuckle out of this one? Wow...I thought it was rather entertaining...not the best but definately one that was dead on...
SugarFree | March 13, 2009, 10:16am | #

Cindhi, hating the
Funnies makes us forget how
much we hate ourselves.
Reinmoose | March 13, 2009, 10:17am | #

The Friday Funny
it doesn't make any sense
big fucking surprise
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 10:21am | #

Hey Cindhi, see,
All commentary should be
In haiku format
Episiarch | March 13, 2009, 10:21am | #

Cindhi has ruined
Our haiku day with laughter
Now we hate on her
domoarrigato | March 13, 2009, 10:25am | #

bonus points are had
for alluding to seasons
as all haiku do
Xeones | March 13, 2009, 10:29am | #

Pedantic domo:
"Silly gaijin, not like that!"
Dude, it's Friday, chill.
domoarrigato | March 13, 2009, 10:39am | #

Haiku are more fun
when rules are followed my friend
I am white as snow"

A Winner!

Lao Tzu|3.13.09 @ 11:09AM|

I have no idea why it did that.

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 11:11AM|

Loa Tzu, goddamn
SugarFreed a cut 'n' paste
How does that happen?

|3.13.09 @ 11:14AM|

I take credit for
bad links, but cut n' paste is
not my bailiwick

|3.13.09 @ 11:19AM|

I do like me some haiku
unfortunatly
my counting is dyslexic

Cindhi|3.13.09 @ 11:19AM|

My gleeful heart flys
As I lovingly and ternderly
Tell "Ep" to shove it!

Spoonman|3.13.09 @ 11:20AM|

Can we still call it
joe'z law of the internets?
Don't summon him now.

|3.13.09 @ 11:22AM|

Lao Tzu's trickery

masterful intertube ploy

how does he do it

|3.13.09 @ 11:26AM|

What the fuck Lao Tzu?
Cindhi you wound me dearly
You shoved so very hard

Cindhi|3.13.09 @ 11:28AM|

Sweet SugerFree, I
Will do my best to humor
The gaiety here on

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 11:36AM|

Ah, but SugarFree
Memetic evolution!
"Lao Tzued," not as fun

|3.13.09 @ 11:40AM|

Xeones, but "Laoed" or
"Lao'd!" has its subtle charms, right?
Let the crowd decide.

Cindhi|3.13.09 @ 11:41AM|

Wounded Episiarch
Wouldn't deservingly so,
But call a gentle truce

|3.13.09 @ 11:41AM|

Friday Funnies suck.
In other news, babies are
Reportedly cute.

Xeones|3.13.09 @ 11:45AM|

Cindhi's desire to
Violate Epi's anus
Is hilarious

|3.13.09 @ 11:46AM|

If only gentle
Had been your approach Cindhi
My ass wouldn't hurt

Reinmoose|3.13.09 @ 11:52AM|

Just face it Epi
You actually like Cindhi's
violation, whore

|3.13.09 @ 11:58AM|

you think ass hurts now

bipartisanship will come

much more pain for all

|3.13.09 @ 12:00PM|

Sex and violence
Have no place in Haiku, friends
Instead welcome spring

fucke|3.13.09 @ 12:02PM|

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Kolohe|3.13.09 @ 12:08PM|

Lao Tzu's point was that
this has all happened before,
will happen again.

JW Gacy|3.13.09 @ 12:08PM|

Unloved Lefiti.
Overinflated ego.
That's embarrassing.

JW Gacy|3.13.09 @ 12:10PM|

Matt Welch was so wrong
In his tweet the other day.
This thread is the wins.

|3.13.09 @ 12:13PM|

Barack Obama
The Negro has gone quite mad
"Hope" is shit on bread

|3.13.09 @ 12:15PM|

My new Reason vow:
No more profanities here;
Ah, fuck that cunt shit

economist|3.13.09 @ 1:34PM|

I drink way too much
Then I come to haiku thread
and compose haiku

Johnny Nowhere|3.13.09 @ 1:44PM|

Friday Funnies scrawl
Worth one hundred responses?
Ha! Haiku fun time.

|3.14.09 @ 6:18PM|

Like an oak in a fantasy.

The yellow
sand appears
in my mind
with a rumbling
and delicate
look; you call
me near a
sylvan hedge,
and everything
shines like a
taciturn wind.

Francesco Sinibaldi

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