Friday Funnies

Just another day at Obama Motors

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[SIV]

By Friday Funny standards this cartoon rates as "good".

[ed]

A car tethered to a wind turbine.
That's comedy bronze.

[Big_Mike]

Classic. That's hilarious. Or would be, if it wasn't so true.

It hits on the oft ignored down side to electric cars (horrible range) and the fact that Obama and the Congressional Dems are picking who wins and loses (windmills, but not coal fired plants) because of where their own money is invested. Forcing only the green energy they're going to make a profit off of on the public.

[domoarrigato]

Yup, Chip scores a touchdown, ok maybe a field goal. Ok, maybe he kicked an extra point and didn't get beat up in the locker room after the game.

[Team America]

@domoarrigato

We have to beat him up anyway - to stay in practice. The cartoon is probably plagiarized anyway, since any attempt at actual humor is totally out of his character.

[BakedPenguin]

You know, it wouldn't hurt to just say "well done" once in a while. Perhaps the encouragment might actually lead to more funny cartoons.

[CoyoteBlue]

Perhaps the encouragment might actually lead to more funny cartoons.

Do you really think so? Penquin please.

[ed]

Praise for mediocrity? Is Bok a federal employee?

[FrBunny]

I really like it.

I also think Major League is the greatest comedy movie ever made, so my endorsement is probably more of a poke in the eye.

[John C. Randolph]

Yesterday, I heard someone on Judge Napolitano's show mention that Nixon said Amtrak would only be a government enterprise for about three years and then it would get sold to investors.

The Russians are right: we're sliding into the same trap they just escaped.

-jcr

[SugarFree]

I also think Major League is the greatest comedy movie ever made

I won't go that far HoneyBunny, but it is strangely compelling. I end up watching it whenever it's on. Much like Highlander or The One.

[the innominate one]

Major League is pretty funny, but it's no Clerks. It's maybe Mallrats-level funny.

:p

[P Brooks]

Maybe you need some sort of Carribbean voodoo talisman to rub on your pen, Chip.

But- not bad.

[FrBunny]

Last week, when I was telling my therapist that I think I've finally moved past the innominate one and his Kevin Smith comments, I smiled for the first time in months.

That's all over now.

As for ML, "Up your butt, Jobu" is one of the 20th century's most versatile phrases, but I can't pass up a USA Network showing of Highlander either.

[Warren]

ROFLMAO
ROFL
LOL

Heh heh
Best Bok Ever

[John-David]

Cool, because I liked it, but wasn't sure if the popular kids were in agreement. Maybe the wedgies will cease.

[the innominate one]

The cartoon was slightly funnier than Pineapple Express.

[Cabeza de Vaca]

"Since she emphasized her Latinaness and played it up as a virtue, I thought, 'Well, how about a fiesta and a pi?ata?'" said cartoonist Chip Bok. "This is a Mexican thing, but again, we're dealing with stereotypes. That's all kind of the joke, I thought."

I guess Chip Bok has a the Latino community pissed off at him, because off a cartoon he drew.

http://www.koco.com/cnn-news/19663527/detail.html

[Anonymous]

Does Chip Bok have compromising pictures of Matt Welch or something?

[JW Gacy]

Well, at least the Sotomayor cartoon isn't getting the Jyllands-Posten treatment. I found it on latinlista.net.

[Fascitis Necrotizante]

The Sotomayor pinata is shitting out candy? Or just little rocks?

Chip, you might want to try a little Senor Wences cartoon where Sotomayor is just drawn onto Obama's hand... "S'aright?" "S'aright!"

[Art-P.O.G.]

Quality. More props to Bok.

[ed]

I end up watching it whenever it's on. Much like Highlander or The One.

Don't forget Road House.
Watch for the Fat Guy's sweat stain to grow and shrink miraculously between edits.

[the innominate one]

FrBunny: who wants to live forever, snoogans?

nootch!

[Art-P.O.G.]

can't pass up a USA Network showing of Highlander either.

Christopher Lambert being weird +Sean Connery and Clancy Brown being over the top= win.

[FrBunny]

Road House edited for basic cable is great because of the scene where the guy in the leather vest and no shirt whispers "I used to fuck fight guys like you in prison" while holding the Swaze in a headlock.

[Nick]

At least you didn't say Major League 2, FrBunny.

Along with any Jaws sequel, admitting it's existence taints the original to some degree.

[Jewel]

The Obama Motors cartoon isn't as funny as the pinata one. But what's REALLY funny is LatinLista.net explaining the cartoon.

[Paul]

Very good.

[emerson]

This cartoon is a well-aimed dig at Obama's famous proposal that cars should only be able to go in circles. Gold!

[Sam-hec]

"Maybe you need some sort of Carribbean voodoo talisman to rub on your pen, Chip."

Chip's environmental items seem to have the effectiveness of a Flaming Voodoo Cannon Ball?.

Wind turbines are selling well. Wind energy capacity is doubling every three years. Electric cars actually make sense for many people.

The joke is on Chip, as he 'drops' his latest Flaming Voodoo Cannonball?.

Argh!?

[Sam-Hec]

Seperately I intend on NOT buying ex-GM's vehichles out of spite for this waste of my tax money. The Big O could at least have bought a company that profitably creates wealth (without subsidies).

[MaterialMonkee]

The South African's have come up with a nice EV

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/10/south-african-e/

I reckon genetically modded Biofuels are the way forward

[Technomist]

As far as I can recall, that is the probably the first Chip cartoon that has ever made me laugh

[R C Dean]

Electric cars actually make sense for many people.

Absent, of course major advances in battery technology, they actually make sense for very, very few people as an "only" car.

Sure, as a second or third car, but on any day that you will need to drive more than the range of the car, its worse than useless. For some people that day is every day (me). For practically nobody does that day never come.

[Colonel_Angus]

"Wind turbines are selling well. Wind energy capacity is doubling every three years. Electric cars actually make sense for many people."

Too bad it is partly dependent on entitlements to buyers and subsidies to the industries at taxpayer expense, and therefore does not represent the products' true costs.

This cartoon is a nice improvement in Bok's work.

[the innominate one]

Technomist - you may want to visit your doctor.

[LarryA]

Wind turbines are selling well. Wind energy capacity is doubling every three years. Electric cars actually make sense for many people.

Right on. In another ten or twenty years there may be enough wind energy to run a hundred or so cars per town.

Looks like I better replace my '99 Jeep while there are still some good options left.

[Sam-Hec]

I seem to have touched a nerve.

R C Dean,
Fortunately, battery advances are here. Some factory retooling needed.

Colonel_Angus
The subsidies etc, when compared to KW hours delivered over the past decade are no more than the subsidies etc that the fossil fuel industry has received over the same time. And of course when looked at over the past century, fossil fuels have received a considerably hueg amount of subsides and other market protections, far more than renewables ever have.

LarryA,
If you look at the numbers via Wikipedia, and follow the math of Doubling, by 2030, wind energy global capacity will be at over 70 Terrawatts of capacity. Far more than we will by that point. And of course the doubling isn't likely to continue at that rate. At least not with conventional style horizontal turbines at ~80 meters up; which has an estimated maximum global capacity of 72 Terrawatts (off shore, near shore, and inland).

[Scarpe Nike Italia]

is good