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Catching Osama bin Laden

Henry Payne | 5.13.2011 7:00 AM

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Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Plus, bin Laden's residence consumes electricity at a rate of about 12 times the average for a typical house in Abbottabad, compared to Bush's eco-friendly Crawford ranch.
1. BigT 15 years ago
  
  Much like algore's Nashville compound - high energy consumption, high security. Gore terrorizes civilization and tries to take us back to the 6th century.
2. MNG 15 years ago
  
  OBL didn't clear brush?
  1. Untermensch 15 years ago
    
    Apparently neither did Gore, at least in the elections?
    1. jacob 15 years ago
      
      Burning the brush would have increased his carbon footprint.
John 15 years ago

http://3eanuts.com/

How about a Friday depressing. Peanuts cartoons without the fourth and humorous panel. It is the most existentially devastating I have ever read.
1. Madbiker 15 years ago
  
  ouch. This runs up there with the Garfiel-sans-Garfield comics.
  1. John 15 years ago
    
    The Garfield sans Garfield ones are brilliant and very disturbing.
    1. Bucky 15 years ago
      
      despair pervades all.
      sounds like schools w/o chocolate milk...
2. MrGuy 15 years ago
  
  I would have chosen the word "inconsequential" or "boring".
Pakistan Military 15 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

eh...I don't get it.
1. Pakistan Taliban 15 years ago
  
  Oh, you got it alright http://www.boston.com/news/wor....._pakistan/
tank 15 years ago

I offer to your attention a film about six priorities of the generalized instruments of management by countries and people of Earth.
Six Principles of Global Manipulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fF3TQ0lJnU
and:
Anti-Qur'an Strategy of the Bible Project Wheeler-Dealers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1wXgXwj3MI
WTF 15 years ago

Needs more labels.
tank 15 years ago

I offer to your attention a film about six priorities of the generalized instruments of management by countries and people of Earth.
Six Principles of Global Manipulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fF3TQ0lJnU
and:
Anti-Qur'an Strategy of the Bible Project Wheeler-Dealers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1wXgXwj3MI
mr simple 15 years ago

It's a good thing they never learned about the advances in explosives technology.
J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o] 15 years ago

The cartoon is so dull it isn't even generating interesting snide remarks.
1. WTF 15 years ago
  
  However, ^this^ was actually an interesting snide remark.
2. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
  
  Whatever.
George V 15 years ago

I would have never known that the mailbox was a mailbox!
1. Barely Suppressed Rage 15 years ago
  
  "Comment" --> Hardy freakin' har.
some guy 15 years ago

Does '666' mean anything in the Muslim world, or is Payne just being Christocentric?

Also, I don't think "Friday Funnies" means what Reason thinks it means...
1. Platypus 15 years ago
  
  This is the most salient point, really. I always thought that was part of the joke; that 'funny' was being used in a sardonic sense... like describing Two And a Half Men as a situation-comedy.
2. Mongo 15 years ago
  
  Payne is completely unaware that Osama worships the same God that he does.
Mike M. 15 years ago

I want to know who Osama was mailing a letter to.
rather 15 years ago

You forgot to draw the Pakistani military officials knocking at Osama's door welcoming their new neighbors with Shahi tokray and Lassi
anarch 15 years ago

All that writing should have been in Urdu.
signs of domestic terrorist 15 years ago

*American flag
*Country music
*Pickup truck
*Gone during the day (has a job)
*Smell of grilled meat
1. WTF 15 years ago
  
  signs of domestic terrorist|5.13.11 @ 8:30AM|#
  *American flag
  *Country music
  *Pickup truck
  *Gone during the day (has a job)
  *Smell of grilled meat
  
  *Constitutionalist
  *Supports 'fringe' candidates like Ron Paul
  1. P B 15 years ago
    
    *Gadsden flag too
    1. Almanian 15 years ago
      
      *Pays own bills
      *Raises own kids
2. Barely Suppressed Rage 15 years ago
  
  *Gadsden flag sticker
  *NRA sticker
  1. Platypus 15 years ago
    
    pink flamingos...
    1. Bucky 15 years ago
      
      subscribes to Samalia Today...
      1. jacob 15 years ago
        
        Garden gnomes with little bombs strapped to their chests.
3. Mr Whipple 15 years ago
  
  Stash of physical gold and silver buried in back yard.
4. Mensan 15 years ago
  
  *Has a DD Form 214
  *Can quote (at least paraphrase) the Constitution
  1. sarcasmic 15 years ago
    
    Only constitutional lawyers are qualified to interpret the Constitution.
    
    Without sufficient training in nuance someone might think "Congress shall make no law" means "Congress shall make no law", or "shall not be infringed" means "shall not be infringed".
    
    Those words do not limit government.
    They empower government!
    
    "Congress shall make no law" authorizes Congress to make laws.
    
    "Shall not be infringed" authorizes Congress to infringe.
    
    Only domestic terrorists think words actually mean what they say.
    1. jacob 15 years ago
      
      LMAO
      that is sad
5. sage 15 years ago
  
  *Tractor pull ticket stubs
  
  *Wal Mart recepit
Mr Whipple 15 years ago

Don't all Pakistani homes have most of those features?
Bee Tagger 15 years ago

Are car bombs supposed to be bigger than cars?
1. Bucky 15 years ago
  
  where are all the children's balls they never gave back?
P Brooks 15 years ago

The world needs ditch diggers, too, Payne.
1. Lacey Underall 15 years ago
  
  Go for it.
Mister DNA 15 years ago

LOL! It's funny because it's true!
Matt Felch 15 years ago

I saw a very similar comic right after the raid.... Jes' Sayin'
1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
  
  Payne has Ziggy bed sheets?
Nipplemancer 15 years ago

NEEEDZ MOAR LABELZZ!!1!!!111!OnE1!eLEVENTY!
Byron 15 years ago

Could have been done better by a second grader.
1. Dept O 15 years ago
  
  +1
emerson 15 years ago

Seriously Reason, what does Henry Payne have on you?
1. Dept O 15 years ago
  
  +1
LB 15 years ago

The comic would be pretty funny without the labels. Just a barbed wire, bomb-laden (heh) building with a blank residential mailbox in front.
1. Dylboz 15 years ago
  
  Yes, I too despise the editorial cartoonist's obsession with labeling the obvious. I work with one, I'm going to go ask him if they have a rule about it somewhere.
For trash-burning alone... 15 years ago

...he deserved what he got!
Dept O 15 years ago

I... I hate friday funnies. Not only are they barely ever the most current works of the cartoonist, but they're certainly the dullest. Fuck, i would take the stupid dog cartoon that's on HP's blog today over more OBL garbage!

Reason! You could find someone to do stick figure drawings that are more pointed, current and funny than this Glenn Beck trash humor!

For christ-steaks! The fucking cars have over sized cartoon bombs on them AND he has to point out what they are! Why? Probably because they don't look like cars!

Exclamation points! One! Exclamation points!
1. TRTB 15 years ago
  
  The Friday Funnies aren't about the cartoons. They are about the comments on the cartoons. Having good cartoons would actually diminish the overall entertainment value.
  1. Comments are ALWAYS better... 15 years ago
    
    This is what keeps me coming back. If you want actual funny in the main dish, go elsewhere.
Dept O 15 years ago

Aww, thanks for your genuine concern. i agree, it would be less fun in here, that's why i'll tell you a secret.

( I'm not really the over-reaction guy in real life, i just play one on reason message boards. )
1. Dept O 15 years ago
  
  This is not me ^ 🙁
Kuwanki 15 years ago

Hate to say it, but Tony is funnier than this.
Almanian 15 years ago

I was tied up Friday in meetings - did I miss anything?

*looks around*

Nope.

PS If I were sage, and I actually read this on Friday, I'd have said:

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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