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Friday Funnies

Introducing Gov. Sarah Palin

Chip Bok | 9.5.2008 7:00 AM

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  1. galthran   17 years ago

    I decided to just look at the art and ignore the text this Friday – and with nice results! The look on McC and the moose actually did make me laugh. I’ll just pretend the words are funny, and not check back here so as to not have my fun ruined.

  2. ed   17 years ago

    The moose with the hole in its forehead is indeed amusing.

  3. VM   17 years ago

    hrumph.

  4. joe   17 years ago

    First they came for the antlered quadropeds…

  5. ed   17 years ago

    Leave Hillary out of this, joe.

  6. Episiarch   17 years ago

    Chip Bok is the NY Mets of cartooning.

  7. Pedro   17 years ago

    The Mets are in first place.

  8. Episiarch   17 years ago

    Ignore this year and you get my point.

  9. madmikefisk   17 years ago

    It does, however, underscore the point that her detractors end up underestimating her to their own peril. Early on, it seems like she looks like a librarian but campaigns like a cage fighter. It’s a heck of a disconnect for people.

  10. Warren   17 years ago

    Flight Case?

  11. sage   17 years ago

    Ed FTW.

  12. SugarFree   17 years ago

    Warren,

    Probably refers to when Palin sold off the tax-payer-expense jet the former governor bought as an extravagance.

  13. Warren   17 years ago

    Ah, yes. Thank you. Still not funny.

    galthran makes a good point. This isn’t a bad panel, it just has a bad caption. Let’s have a recaption contest.

    “Excellent. Now just stick a bible in her hand and it will be perfect.”

  14. KinkyKathy   17 years ago

    Does the hockey mom’s daughter score more than she does? Maybe.

  15. P Brooks   17 years ago

    The “Flight Case” had me stumped, too.

    Maybe the feds can lease a de Havilland for Ms Palin to jump puddles in.

    “Vice President’s Beaver headed to town- film at eleven.”

  16. libertymike   17 years ago

    Evidently, the hockey mom isn’t too good at playing goalie.

  17. J sub D   17 years ago

    VM –

    Whatsamatta U?
    A relative of yours?

  18. JMR   17 years ago

    The hockey mom’s daughter scored with a hockey player. Question: Would this pregnancy have happened if hockey mom hadn’t pushed thru a hockey rink subsidy??

  19. mk   17 years ago

    Whatsamatta U?

    I didn’t go there. I graduated from the watchmaker’s institute (tick-tock tech). The two schools had quite a rivalry going.

  20. madmikefisk   17 years ago

    The “Flight Case” bit, if I recall correctly, was in response to a comment she made somewhere about being able to pack for the campaign trail in basically one suitcase…

  21. Seer   17 years ago

    If McCain-Palin wins, I predict that they will inspire massive amounts of Oval-Office themed porn.

  22. mk   17 years ago

    massive amounts of Oval-Office themed porn.

    It would give a new meaning to the term “government pork”

  23. Tom   17 years ago

    Someone please tellme why she’s wearing on the left hip with the grip facing back… is she left-handed? Or is Bok just an idiot?

  24. Tom   17 years ago

    PS — the latter question above is in jest, not trolling. I love Bok’s work and I’m sure this was just a silly error (or Palin really IS a southpaw! :p)

  25. kinnath   17 years ago

    Someone please tellme why she’s wearing on the left hip with the grip facing back…

    Poetic license

  26. Earnesto Poplar   17 years ago

    Caption contest!

    1. “No Mr. Senator, I’m not going to ask her why she gave her kids stupid names.”

    2. “It’s called identity politics, sir.”

    3. “Yes, I’m sure she will help you tie your shoes too.”

  27. Warren   17 years ago

    Someone please tellme why she’s wearing on the left hip with the grip facing back

    Why don’t you assume there’s one on her right hip too. She’s a two fisted gun slinging mom of a VP.

  28. Seward   17 years ago

    madmikefisk,

    It does, however, underscore the point that her detractors end up underestimating her to their own peril.

    Sure, but her speech also apparently energized the Democratic base, if the $10 million the Obama campaign garnered following it is any indication. So both sides could fumble by underestimating.

  29. ed   17 years ago

    Palin could very well become our first lactating vice president.

    If you don’t count Al Gore.

  30. kinnath   17 years ago

    There was a short-lived comedy show (10 or so years ago) where the lead comic played Bill Clinton breast-feeding a puppy.

  31. sage   17 years ago

    Damn, and ed for a two-fer!

  32. madmikefisk   17 years ago

    Seward: Point taken. That being said, it doesn’t take all that many people to get to $10 million. The bigger question will be how the campaign itself responds, and that we’ll see in the next couple of weeks.

  33. angry d   17 years ago

    kinnath,

    That was the Dana Carvey Show. And of course it was short-lived–it had a terrible writing staff: Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert, Louis CK, Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufmann, Dave Chappelle.

  34. Bingo   17 years ago

    3. “Yes, I’m sure she will help you tie your shoes too.”

    Hahaha

  35. kinnath   17 years ago

    That was the Dana Carvey Show. And of course it was short-lived–it had a terrible writing staff: Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert, Louis CK, Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufmann, Dave Chappelle.

    Mountain Dew was a prominent sponser on one of the first few shows. The show ran a sketch with Dana Carvey sitting with a tall glass of MD (flat with no ice) smiling and asking “what does this look like?”. The connotation that it was a glass of warm piss was not hard to infer. Eventually Dana says that’s right, it’s a glass of liquid sunshine.

    You don’t survive long when you trash your sponsors on the air.

  36. Dello   17 years ago

    Caption:
    “Where was that gun when Bristol was getting knocked up?”

    Dello-ism:

    One simple rule for dating my teenaged daughter: I have a gun and 100 acres.

  37. Warren   17 years ago

    One simple rule for dating my teenaged daughter: I have a gun and 100 acres.

    Good for you. I have a “gun” and a large back seat. Don’t wait up for us.

  38. Droopy McCool   17 years ago

    Caption:

    “Next she changes my diaper.”

    …but it’s actually baby trig saying that, and he is hanging from the ceiling like a spider. McCain is spooked by this. Oh, and in thick letters it says ‘ohhh’ and McCain is thinking, where is Bristol, who would be drawn as a squid. Get to work Bok!

  39. Charles   17 years ago

    At least Chip threw something in.

    RNC, Reason: Suck… Less!

  40. Lajaw   17 years ago

    “No Mr. Senator, I’m not going to ask her why she gave her kids stupid names.”

    I don’t know for sure, but seeing her husband is of native alaskan heritage, maybe the name comes from there?

  41. *   17 years ago

    Chip Bok is the NY Mets of cartooning.

    That would imply that he is intermittent successful. As I see it, Chip Bok is more the Washington Generals of cartooning.

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