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Friday Funnies

The Democrats and taxes

Chip Bok | 2.13.2009 7:00 AM

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  1. domoarrigato   16 years ago

    Is it just me, or does the dog look like Leon Panetta?

  2. SIV   16 years ago

    To say Bok is “phoning it in” would be a compliment.

  3. Adam   16 years ago

    Um… this might have been clever, say, a week ago. Before 18,561 other people made the exact same joke.

  4. domoarrigato   16 years ago

    Oh – and C-

  5. ed   16 years ago

    It’s deja vu all over again.

  6. Jim Bob   16 years ago

    Sloth from Goonies has a pet anteater.

  7. Jason Weider   16 years ago

    LOL, Chip Bok like totally ROCKS!

    RT
    http://www.anon-tools.us.tc

  8. FrBunny   16 years ago

    If Bok’s sharp insights get Democrats to tow the lion on taxes, I applaud him.

  9. Marcvs   16 years ago

    Nothing like a partisan jab when the economy is in the shitter because of Republican and soon-to-be-enacted Democratic policies. So timely! So relevant!

    So pointless.

  10. Reinmoose   16 years ago

    Wait – wasn’t last week’s Friday Funnies this exact same joke?

    [checks]

    yup.

  11. FrBunny   16 years ago

    Don’t be silly RM. Last week two of them were standing up. Totally changes the context.

  12. Nick   16 years ago

    I get it now. Sorry, I’m kinda slow with some things.

    The funny part of Friday is making fun of unfunny cartoons. Do WE get paid for this?

  13. FrBunny   16 years ago

    I remember meeting Joel Pett at an editorial dinner when he was still with the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader. I was young enough at the time to be impressed by his Pulitzer. Now I understand Pulitzers for cartoons are awarded for lack of options.

    It’s like the Oscar for best animated feature. All you have to do to get nominated is make one.

  14. libertarian democrat   16 years ago

    You know it’s going to be bad, but you always hope for a bit better…

  15. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    I like the dog.

  16. SugarFree   16 years ago

    FrBunny,

    I remember meeting Joel Pett at an editorial dinner

    I am deeply sorry you had to go through that.

  17. Xeones   16 years ago

    Yo, fuck the Friday Funnies.

  18. ..   16 years ago

    It’s like the Oscar for best animated feature. All you have to do to get nominated is make one.

    Thread-winner for stupidity.

  19. Xeones   16 years ago

    Yeah, the preview of the dog at the top of this page is way better than the entirety of the cartoon. The sum diminishes the part.

  20. P Brooks   16 years ago

    Where’s his dog whistle?

  21. FrBunny   16 years ago

    Thread-winner for stupidity.

    Yay?

  22. FrBunny   16 years ago

    SugarFree,

    [namedrop] Add that to meeting Betty Winston Baye at a high-school assembly, and it’s no wonder I hate newspapers. [/namedrop]

  23. SugarFree   16 years ago

    Sweet fuck, Bunny. I’m surprised a black hole of stupidity didn’t swallow the room.

    I’ve dealt a lot with Pett, including watching him repeatedly asking out my married boss. Kept waiting, hoping I could see her throw him through a wood-chipper.

  24. re: Fr Bunny   16 years ago

    Your Betty Winston Baye should win a Pullitzer for this editorial gem:

    The Internet: A blessing and a curse

    There’s so much good about the Internet. I would have loved when I was back in college and graduate school, for example, to have such instant access to so facts and such instant access to family and friends afar. But every good thing has its downside. For example, you can collect a lot of information surfing the net, but that doesn’t make it all true. Moreover, cyberspace is a magnet for crooks and creeps. The crooks are out to steal your identity and to separate you from your cash. The creeps are out to infect your spirit with their vile rants. I always think how small, miserable, frightened and lonely must be those who apparently have nothing better to do than to throw up all over other people and to do so anonymously, or so they’d like to believe.

  25. FrBunny   16 years ago

    to do so anonymously, or so they’d like to believe

    That’s creepy.

  26. SugarFree   16 years ago

    There is no anonymity, Bunny.

    Episiarch’s real name is Horatio ManBlower.

  27. FrBunny   16 years ago

    List of Disney, Dreamworks Animation, and Pixar films combined (out of 21 produced) that didn’t get nominated for best animated feature since the category began in 2001:

    Madagascar
    Flushed Away
    Shrek 3
    Bee Movie
    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Home on the Range

    SugarFree,

    Horatio ManBlower of the Kennebunkport ManBlowers? Their garden parties are legendary in the heteroflexible community.

  28. SugarFree   16 years ago

    Yes, I believe so. It’s hard to be sure, because the ManBlowers, paradoxically, have hundreds of offspring.

  29. Xeones   16 years ago

    It’s not such a paradox. They’ll bang anything warm and concave, up to and including that weird dent in the side of joe’s head.

  30. P Brooks   16 years ago

    But every good thing has its downside. For example, you can collect a lot of information surfing the net, but that doesn’t make it all true.

    How insightful!

    *swoons*

  31. P Brooks   16 years ago

    the ManBlowers, paradoxically, have hundreds of offspring.

    It must have something to do with the fertility clinic in the basement.

  32. SugarFree   16 years ago

    P Brooks,

    Check out the post where she is mystified by fans of UofL and UK basketball who never went to school there and then look at the post less than a month later where she, a non-native of KY and not an alumni of any KY school, enthuses about UofL women’s basketball.

    Seriously, this is the sort of stupid it would be hard to make up. You put this stupid in a novel and it would be believable.

  33. SugarFree   16 years ago

    wouldn’t be.

    And neither would my lack of typing ability…

  34. BakedPenguin   16 years ago

    Crap, I forgot it was Friday. Here’s my alternative. It’s marginally better!

  35. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    BakedPenguin lies. It’s quite good. Funny and disturbing at the same time.

  36. hotsauce   16 years ago

    I will subscribe immediately if reason starts running BakedPenguin’s options instead.

  37. P Brooks   16 years ago

    Once again, the Penguin strikes paydirt.

    Here’s an idea for you, if you’re interested:

    Bush thought balloon: evil scrawny turbanned boogeyman

    Obama thought balloon: evil rotund tophatted and monocled boogeymen

  38. FrBunny   16 years ago

    P Brooks,

    Don’t forget the crying Statue of Liberty.

  39. domoarrigato   16 years ago

    BakedPenguin provides much needed Humor Stimulus once again.

  40. Mike M.   16 years ago

    Wait – wasn’t last week’s Friday Funnies this exact same joke?

    It should be reprinted every single time Timmy Turbotax has the I.R.S. haul some poor schlub into court.

  41. Mike Laursen   16 years ago

    If Bok’s sharp insights get Democrats to tow the lion on taxes, I applaud him.

    “Tow the lion” is so much more interesting of an expression than “tow the line.”

  42. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Toe the line.

    Or tow the lying.

  43. Mike Laursen   16 years ago

    It’s my observation that a lot of libertarians are so critical of the government because they were younger they took good citizenship and obeying the laws and High School Civics seriously. Sort of like a lot of hardcore atheists who used to be religious.

  44. Mike Laursen   16 years ago

    Oh, yeah. “Toe the line”. Thanks. Now can you make that damned Toto song, “Hold the Line”, get out of my head?

  45. green mamba   16 years ago

    What everyone else said.

    Chip Bok might be a nice guy, but isn’t it time Reason got a cartoonist who had some wit and originality? P.S. Where’s Peter Bagge these days?

  46. Francesco Sinibaldi   16 years ago

    A vocal path.

    You live
    near a vocal
    path, and always
    a young bird
    returns in your
    head like a
    beautiful song
    in the light
    of a white dream…

    Francesco Sinibaldi

  47. Marc   16 years ago

    P.S. Where’s Peter Bagge these days?

    Indeed! I was just wondering that, and why they don’t have Peter do the Friday Funnies.

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