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Friday Funnies

McCain's environmental hot air

Henry Payne | 6.6.2008 7:00 AM

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  1. Taktix®   18 years ago

    Not to bad by Friday Funny standards, but a little unrealistic -- McCain can't raise his arms that high...

  2. Reinmoose   18 years ago

    Not to bad by Friday Funny standards, but a little unrealistic -- McCain can't raise his arms that high...

    Immediate winner.
    And way funnier than the actual cartoon

  3. Episiarch   18 years ago

    Why does reason hate good comedy?

  4. Reinmoose   18 years ago

    I find it ironic that the friday funnies are less funny than most of the ridiculous authoritarian stuff that we read about during the week.
    Maybe you should call it the Friday Cartoon, or Friday Illustration or something.

  5. J   18 years ago

    Better than the average Friday funny... which is still a bit depressing.

  6. brotherben   18 years ago

    If marijuana were legal, would this be funny?

  7. SugarFree   18 years ago

    If marijuana were legal, would this be funny?

    Maybe. Let's try it for ten years or so.

  8. Warren   18 years ago

    If marijuana were legal, would this be funny?
    Probably not, but it would be interesting.

    I still remember being captivated by Madhouse (1990 John Larroquette Kirstie Alley) one summer afternoon. Nobody was laughing, but nobody said a word either. That's 20 minutes I'll never get back (commercial broke the spell and we all headed out the door) but I can't say they were wasted because I was.

  9. Episiarch   18 years ago

    If marijuana were legal, would this be funny?

    Well, maybe if you were smoking it while reading the cartoon it would. But that's not saying much.

    "Look, all I'm saying is if you still wanna smoke pot then be prepared to spend a lot of time laughing with your friends." -- Jeffrey Jellineck

  10. Elemenope   18 years ago

    Maybe you should call it the Friday Cartoon, or Friday Illustration or something.

    The Vendredoodle.

  11. Nigel Watt   18 years ago

    SWIM finds things which fail at being funny to be buzzkills.

  12. Taktix®   18 years ago

    Immediate winner.
    And way funnier than the actual cartoon

    I'd like to thank everyone that contributed to this win, including all you trolls out there; and all the little people, who never get a chance to win threads; and the DEMAND KURVE!; and...

  13. Marcvs   18 years ago

    You guys should just start using Family Circus for your Friday "Funnies". Or Ziggy. Or Garfield. Or this.

  14. Art-P.O.G.   18 years ago

    The genius of juxtaposition through unwilling collaboration is validated by the "Family Circus" w/random Nietzsche quotes or "Garfield without Garfield". 'Course absurdity is somewhat cheap.

    Now when I think of CO2 emissions and mortality, I think of that Modest Mouse song "Parting of the Sensory".

  15. Rhywun   18 years ago

    Who can forget "The Nameless Dread": The Family Circus + H.P. Lovecraft?

  16. Art-P.O.G.   18 years ago

    It's really hard for me to say which is more brilliant, Family Circus +Nietzsche or Fam Circ +Lovecraft, but I guess I would give a slight nod to Lovecraft.

  17. Sam Grove   18 years ago

    Warner Brothers

    I remember catching a WB toon one buzzy morning when the mice counfounded Claude the cat by mounting all the furniture on the ceiling while Claude slept.

    and watching the expressions on Wile E. Coyote's face when he repeatedly met his fate.

  18. Jonathan Hohensee   18 years ago

    I still remember being captivated by Madhouse (1990 John Larroquette Kirstie Alley) one summer afternoon. Nobody was laughing, but nobody said a word either. That's 20 minutes I'll never get back (commercial broke the spell and we all headed out the door) but I can't say they were wasted because I was.
    In high school, they showed the entire 10th grade The Other Sister.
    When we walked out of the auditorium, no one said a fucking word.

  19. Francesco Sinibaldi   18 years ago

    Hello my dear.

    Behind a melody
    the close of the
    day resembles the
    north wind attending
    a field, and this
    water-course appears
    in my mind like
    a delicate sadness
    at the height of
    the season: I wait
    for a pleasure, I dream
    the sunflower.

    Francesco Sinibaldi

  20. Air Jordan 14 XIV Retro   15 years ago

    very good

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