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Friday Funnies

Playing with funny money

Chip Bok | 1.1.2010 7:00 AM

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   16 years ago

    Copyright infringement... ON RACISM!

  2. Fist of Etiquette   16 years ago

    Actually, I like this one. But then again, I'm drunk.

    1. Suki   16 years ago

      I'm sober and don't find it funny.

      1. Untermensch   16 years ago

        Bok is like drunken fist kung-fu: you need to be a little drunk to appreciate his mastery: otherwise he looks a little unsteady. Come to think of it, I'm not sure intoxication would make him look steady...

      2. joshua corning   16 years ago

        Wait so a quote from a guy who says you can't spend like it is monopoly money...and then actually show an altered monopoly board that depicts grotesque amounts of spending.

        How is this not funny?

        1. The Libertarian Guy   16 years ago

          But... but... when Obama spends non-existent money, He is doing it according to His Divine Plan.

          Didn't you get the memo?

  3. Suki   16 years ago

    GOOD MORNING reason!

    Happy New Year!

  4. jester   16 years ago

    Bon Jour, tous le monde. New Decade. As if we all had a say. *heavy sigh*

  5. ed   16 years ago

    Who's the funny-looking white guy with the cane?

    1. Suki   16 years ago

      The Mayor of Libertopia, silly.

      1. JW   16 years ago

        Cxn't be. He'd have a moustache to wax and twirl.

        1. Suki   16 years ago

          Just noticed that! Thanks, my eyes weren't workin' right this morning.

          New news, charges against Blackwater contractors for killing civilians dismissed by judge. Federal prosecutors violated the rights of the defendants.

          1. Tulpa   16 years ago

            I bet the administration is kicking itself for letting those Blackwater guys get away with murder. Heads are gonna roll, I tell ya.

            </sarcasm>

            1. The Libertarian Guy   16 years ago

              The same admin that let the New Black Panther Party skate on intimidating voters with weapons?

    2. joshua corning   16 years ago

      Obama

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  6. Jesse Jackoff   16 years ago

    That's racist!

    1. jester   16 years ago

      everything is racist in our new decade. might as well accept it.

  7. The Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

    I'm not sure it's funny, but I like the art so I give it the Art-P.O.G. Seal of Approval?.

  8. P Brooks   16 years ago

    It *is* colorful.

    1. Tulpa   16 years ago

      So is my puke after eating a package of Starbursts, but I don't put that online and say it's funny.

      1. Barack Obama   16 years ago

        Soon, Starbursts will be taxed at a dollar apiece.

        Not per package... per piece.

        It's for The Children.

      2. Silentz   16 years ago

        Sounds like we have our next Friday Funnies submission!

  9. Tulpa   16 years ago

    Why does the Monopoly guy look like Homer Simpson? And why is he a fiscal conservative if he's working for the Obama administration?

    1. Joe Wilson   16 years ago

      Homer Simpson?

      You lie!

      1. Hermet   16 years ago

        You are right, he looks more like Nixon.

        It's the eyes.

    2. joshua corning   16 years ago

      http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....money.html

  10. In Time Of War   16 years ago

    Hmm, I think it would be a lot more funny if ol' Uncle Sam had a big shit-eating grin and was saying "We CAN spend tax dollars..."
    It'd be a lot closer to the truth.

  11. CatoTheElder   16 years ago

    Brilliant!

    Except the dice should show snake-eyes or boxcars 'cause the Obama is going to crap out.

  12. Tulpa   16 years ago

    And why aren't there any houses built on TARP?

  13. Mike M.   16 years ago

    Awesome cartoon to start off the new year right.

  14. Tsu Dho Nihm   16 years ago

    What's the difference between Monopoly money and US currency?

  15. the innominate one   16 years ago

    Monopoly money is worth something.

    Mike M. is still drunk, apparently.

  16. anarch   16 years ago

    Monopoly money can be used for its stated purpose.

  17. anarch   16 years ago

    At its full value.

  18. anarch   16 years ago

    Brilliant minds think alike.

  19. jester   16 years ago

    Luxury Tax shoulda read Carbon Tax. Lost opportunity.

    1. The Libertarian Guy   16 years ago

      Same thing, jester... both taxes are evil. Still gets the point across.

  20. John Galt   16 years ago

    LOLACAUST

  21. LarryA   16 years ago

    Notice that the "Go" arrow is pointed backwards? Priceless.

  22. Spencer   16 years ago

    i enjoyed this

    just think by the end of 2010 the entire board will be full

  23. Colonel_Angus   16 years ago

    It doesn't have to be funny. It bluntly states the contradiction in Obama's inane comment.

  24. Unique Stuff   16 years ago

    haha..funny picture.. anyway who made this? a brilliant idea,combining monopoly game board and current US policy..a nice medium to express the author mind.. keep posting..

  25. abercrombie milano   16 years ago

    My only point is that if you take the Bible straight, as I'm sure many of Reasons readers do, you will see a lot of the Old Testament stuff as absolutely insane. Even some cursory knowledge of Hebrew and doing some mathematics and logic will tell you that you really won't get the full deal by just doing regular skill english reading for those books. In other words, there's more to the books of the Bible than most will ever grasp. I'm not concerned that Mr. Crumb will go to hell or anything crazy like that! It's just that he, like many types of religionists, seems to take it literally, take it straight...the Bible's books were not written by straight laced divinity students in 3 piece suits who white wash religious beliefs as if God made them with clothes on...the Bible's books were written by people with very different mindsets...in order to really get the Books of the Bible, you have to cultivate such a mindset, it's literally a labyrinth, that's no joke

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