Bringing You the Funnies, Two Days Late

I've been known to bash Boondocks, but I'll give credit where it's due: Thursday's edition of the strip is pretty damn funny.

Comments

[joe]

John Derbyshire should be put in a museum to help modern students of politics understand Elizabethan/Edwardian-era Tories. He has very little tolerance for natives getting above their station and disrespecting their betters.

[joe]

Those of you who are regulars know I don't throw comments like that around lightly.

[Ruthless]

One more splash and I may be get this crap?

Okay. One more splash anyhoodie.

[Douglas Fletcher]

Don't worry, joe, they'll find a museum for you too one day.

[Openminded Leftist]

Right-wing intolerence! More backwards authoritiarian thinking from the right-wing corproate rulers! I didn't actually read the link, but just the title alone offended me.

[Jean Bart]

Can someone please explain the comic to me. Thank you. 🙂

[tchiers]

JB,

R. Kelly is a big R&B singer, who recently got in trouble for videotaping himeself having sex with a 14-year-old.

Make sense now?

[Josh]

And by "having sex with," tchiers means "urinating on." Just so you know.

[KJ]

Well, could someone please explain Joe's post to me?

Why does contempt for that particular comic signalize "little tolerance for natives getting above their station and disrespecting their betters?" To what extent is this "little tolerance" a symptom of Edwardian-era Torysm?

And what, pray tell, are "Elizabethan-era Tories?" For all I know, the Elizabethan era ended in 1603, whereas "Tory" appeared some 90 years later as a frequently-used term for partisans of the House of Stewart, changing its meaning in the course of time.

[The Lonewacko Blog]

Joe's post is explained by his universe coming into alignment with our universe for a brief period around midnight GMT.

[Tim Cavanaugh]

And what, pray tell, are "Elizabethan-era Tories?" For all I know, the Elizabethan era ended in 1603, whereas "Tory" appeared some 90 years later as a frequently-used term for partisans of the House of Stewart, changing its meaning in the course of time.

Maybe it has something to do with the current queen's name also being Elizabeth?

[richard]

Tim, no one...not even the tabloids would ever refer to the current Queen's rule as the Elizabethan era...what the hell is going on with the intelligence level here...I think H & R may have flatlined.

[joe]

Er, "Victorian" not "Elizabethan." I doubt even Derb pines for bear bating.

Now that's embarrassing.

[Sam I Was]

John Derbyshire should be put in a museum ...

Joe, are you sure you posted to the right thread?

[Jesse Walker]

It made me grin. I don't remember whether I laughed out loud.

[Chad P.]

Jesse, you're a Jean Shepherd fan? Alright!!! Shep kicks ass.

[bcook]

Everyone clicked the strip but not the blog link, in which he quotes Derbyshire's somewhat frothing evaluation of the strip. Poor Jesse.

I loved the Boondocks when I first came across it, but McGruder went from annoyed, which is always funny, to plain angry, which is only funny when John Cleese does it.

[Huey Generally Sucks]

JW, when you wrote "pretty damn funny," did you mean it in the sense "it made me laugh out loud?"