Friday Funnies

Catching Osama bin Laden

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  • Fist of Etiquette| |

    Plus, bin Laden's residence consumes electricity at a rate of about 12 times the average for a typical house in Abbottabad, compared to Bush's eco-friendly Crawford ranch.

  • BigT| |

    Much like algore's Nashville compound - high energy consumption, high security. Gore terrorizes civilization and tries to take us back to the 6th century.

  • MNG| |

    OBL didn't clear brush?

  • Untermensch| |

    Apparently neither did Gore, at least in the elections…

  • jacob| |

    Burning the brush would have increased his carbon footprint.

  • | |

    http://3eanuts.com/

    How about a Friday depressing. Peanuts cartoons without the fourth and humorous panel. It is the most existentially devastating I have ever read.

  • | |

    ouch. This runs up there with the Garfiel-sans-Garfield comics.

  • | |

    The Garfield sans Garfield ones are brilliant and very disturbing.

  • | |

    despair pervades all.
    sounds like schools w/o chocolate milk...

  • MrGuy| |

    I would have chosen the word "inconsequential" or "boring".

  • | |

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    eh...I don't get it.

  • Pakistan Taliban| |

  • WTF| |

    Needs more labels.

  • mr simple| |

    It's a good thing they never learned about the advances in explosives technology.

  • J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o]| |

    The cartoon is so dull it isn't even generating interesting snide remarks.

  • WTF| |

    However, ^this^ was actually an interesting snide remark.

  • Fist of Etiquette| |

    Whatever.

  • George V| |

    I would have never known that the mailbox was a mailbox!

  • Barely Suppressed Rage| |

    "Comment" --> Hardy freakin' har.

  • some guy| |

    Does '666' mean anything in the Muslim world, or is Payne just being Christocentric?

    Also, I don't think "Friday Funnies" means what Reason thinks it means...

  • Platypus| |

    This is the most salient point, really. I always thought that was part of the joke; that 'funny' was being used in a sardonic sense... like describing Two And a Half Men as a situation-comedy.

  • | |

    Payne is completely unaware that Osama worships the same God that he does.

  • Mike M.| |

    I want to know who Osama was mailing a letter to.

  • rather| |

    You forgot to draw the Pakistani military officials knocking at Osama's door welcoming their new neighbors with Shahi tokray and Lassi

  • anarch| |

    All that writing should have been in Urdu.

  • signs of domestic terrorist| |

    *American flag
    *Country music
    *Pickup truck
    *Gone during the day (has a job)
    *Smell of grilled meat

  • WTF| |

    signs of domestic terrorist|5.13.11 @ 8:30AM|#
    *American flag
    *Country music
    *Pickup truck
    *Gone during the day (has a job)
    *Smell of grilled meat

    *Constitutionalist
    *Supports 'fringe' candidates like Ron Paul

  • P B| |

    *Gadsden flag too

  • Almanian| |

    *Pays own bills
    *Raises own kids

  • Barely Suppressed Rage| |

    *Gadsden flag sticker
    *NRA sticker

  • Platypus| |

    pink flamingos...

  • | |

    subscribes to Samalia Today...

  • jacob| |

    Garden gnomes with little bombs strapped to their chests.

  • Mr Whipple| |

    Stash of physical gold and silver buried in back yard.

  • Mensan| |

    *Has a DD Form 214
    *Can quote (at least paraphrase) the Constitution

  • sarcasmic| |

    Only constitutional lawyers are qualified to interpret the Constitution.

    Without sufficient training in nuance someone might think "Congress shall make no law" means "Congress shall make no law", or "shall not be infringed" means "shall not be infringed".

    Those words do not limit government.
    They empower government!

    "Congress shall make no law" authorizes Congress to make laws.

    "Shall not be infringed" authorizes Congress to infringe.

    Only domestic terrorists think words actually mean what they say.

  • jacob| |

    LMAO
    that is sad

  • | |

    *Tractor pull ticket stubs

    *Wal Mart recepit

  • Mr Whipple| |

    Don't all Pakistani homes have most of those features?

  • Bee Tagger| |

    Are car bombs supposed to be bigger than cars?

  • | |

    where are all the children's balls they never gave back?

  • | |

    The world needs ditch diggers, too, Payne.

  • | |

    Go for it.

  • | |

    LOL! It's funny because it's true!

  • Matt Felch| |

    I saw a very similar comic right after the raid.... Jes' Sayin'

  • Fist of Etiquette| |

    Payne has Ziggy bed sheets?

  • Nipplemancer| |

    NEEEDZ MOAR LABELZZ!!1!!!111!OnE1!eLEVENTY!

  • Byron| |

    Could have been done better by a second grader.

  • Dept O| |

    +1

  • emerson| |

    Seriously Reason, what does Henry Payne have on you?

  • Dept O| |

    +1

  • | |

    The comic would be pretty funny without the labels. Just a barbed wire, bomb-laden (heh) building with a blank residential mailbox in front.

  • Dylboz| |

    Yes, I too despise the editorial cartoonist's obsession with labeling the obvious. I work with one, I'm going to go ask him if they have a rule about it somewhere.

  • For trash-burning alone...| |

    ...he deserved what he got!

  • Dept O| |

    I... I hate friday funnies. Not only are they barely ever the most current works of the cartoonist, but they're certainly the dullest. Fuck, i would take the stupid dog cartoon that's on HP's blog today over more OBL garbage!

    Reason! You could find someone to do stick figure drawings that are more pointed, current and funny than this Glenn Beck trash humor!

    For christ-steaks! The fucking cars have over sized cartoon bombs on them AND he has to point out what they are! Why? Probably because they don't look like cars!

    Exclamation points! One! Exclamation points!

  • TRTB| |

    The Friday Funnies aren't about the cartoons. They are about the comments on the cartoons. Having good cartoons would actually diminish the overall entertainment value.

  • | |

    This is what keeps me coming back. If you want actual funny in the main dish, go elsewhere.

  • Dept O| |

    Aww, thanks for your genuine concern. i agree, it would be less fun in here, that's why i'll tell you a secret.

    ( I'm not really the over-reaction guy in real life, i just play one on reason message boards. )

  • Dept O| |

    This is not me ^ :(

  • | |

    Hate to say it, but Tony is funnier than this.

  • Almanian| |

    I was tied up Friday in meetings - did I miss anything?

    *looks around*

    Nope.

    PS If I were sage, and I actually read this on Friday, I'd have said:

    HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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