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Chip Bok | 3.30.2012 7:00 AM

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Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Justices Dee and Dum ain't buying it.
1. Bill 13 years ago
  
  Before the whole thing (I won't dignify it by calling it a comic) came up, I thought it might actually be a good one.
  
  I thought it would be a Humpty-Dumpty reference about not being able to put it together again.
  1. It's not statism unless we say 13 years ago
    
    librulz are statist government luuvers
    commie fags are statist gummit luuvers
    
    WI: Officer, am I free to gambol?
    
    FiBertard: OMG! WE NEED GUMMIT TO PROTECT OUR GUMMIT LAND OFFICE PRIVATION PROPERTY RIGHTS!
    
    The hypocrisy and blatant contradictions of the "anti-statist" (LOL!) defenders of agricultural city-Statism (civilization) is Funny. Every. Day.
    
    Deregulate gambol lockdown, oh ye self-styled deregulators, if you would be free.
    1. Joey Lawrence 13 years ago
      
      Whoa.
      1. cowardly commenter some guy 13 years ago
        
        It's ok Joey. He's just being sarcastic.
    2. Caveman 13 years ago
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkfVdrtLcRs
      1. Jesus H. Christ 13 years ago
        
        That is one scary looking dude. I mean, if there's anyone who just looks like they eat human flesh, it would be him.
    3. Rokk Krinn 13 years ago
      
      So you are a commie fag then?
Abdul 13 years ago

That's almost as funny as a gas leak at a Holocaust survivor convention.
1. Adolf 13 years ago
  
  Now that's funny!
  1. Hitler isn't all bad. Jeesh. 13 years ago
    
    It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aimed at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has for the moment saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.
    
    ~Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism (1927)
    1. WHITE INDIAN FART 13 years ago
      
      Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs.
    2. Owebama isn't all bad. Cheese. 13 years ago
      
      looking back, i'm sure that all the crap Owebama and his minions pulled will be blamed for the rise of the Tea Party, the routing of 'moderate republicans'and the refocus of people on the Constitution and what the founders created. thanks George Soros!
Mary's Stacked & Comcast Sucks 13 years ago

Ah, I see. Supporters of UrkleCare are dildos. A sly, witty commentary on the nexus between healthcare and the culture wars. Well done.
Amakudari 13 years ago

Because of the piece of paper saying "Supreme Court," we know that this scene takes place in the Supreme Court.
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  It helpful for Justice Thomas as well.
  1. Almanian 13 years ago
    
    racist
  2. Justice Thomas, Randroid? 13 years ago
    
    The Fountainhead is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's favorite book ? he even makes his clerks learn it.
    
    ATLAS SHRIEKED: Ayn Rand's First Love and Mentor Was A Sadistic Serial Killer Who Dismembered Little Girls
    http://exiledonline.com/atlas-.....nds-heart/
    1. WWNGD? 13 years ago
      
      If it is on the internet then I will believe it and repost it on as many sites as possible!
      1. Libertymike 13 years ago
        
        What did Rand see in Hickman?
        
        A Selfish Individual 13 years ago
        
        Everything that capitalism does to mother earth and her children.
        
        "The Earth is not dying - she is being killed. And those who are killing her have names and addresses." ~Utah Phillips
        
        Bucky 13 years ago
        
        whew! at first i thought Rev. Al at it again...
2. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
  
  Because of the piece of paper saying "Supreme Court," we know that this scene takes place in the Supreme Court.
  
  Ohhh, that explains it. I thought it took place in a Chinese restaurant called Supreme Court. The egg-man was begging the cooks to be spared from today's egg foo young.
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

Are you telling me to not hire Danny Devito if I ever have a case go in front of the Supreme Court?

I'll need more than a hilarious cartoon, I'm afraid.
1. Bobarian 13 years ago
  
  How would you know you need more than a hilarious cartoon, until you actually tried it?
MikeP 13 years ago

Humpty Dumpty was a lawyer.
Humpty Dumpty argued the side of the government in defending PPACA.
All the president's horses
And all the president's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
1. Amakudari 13 years ago
  
  Your poetry is really good.
  
  You should, like, write a book or whatever they call those things with lots of poems in them.
  1. MikeP 13 years ago
    
    Do you think there's a market for iambic triskaidecameter?
    1. gubmit 13 years ago
      
      We'll create one!
      1. Libertymike 13 years ago
        
        Then subsidize it.
        
        Libertymike 13 years ago
        
        Then regulate it.
        
        Libertymike 13 years ago
        
        Then individual mandate it.
        
        GAMBOL REGULATIONS! 13 years ago
        
        That's BIG GUMMIT that Libertards can really love!
        
        Bucky 13 years ago
        
        i'll gamble that you couldn't stop using the caps. key if you tried...
2. Brian from Texas 13 years ago
  
  "My name is Humpty,
  Pronounced with an 'umpty'!"
  
  -Digital Underground
  1. Almanian 13 years ago
    
    "I look funny..."
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      "My nose is big
      Big like a pickle..."
    2. Bucky 13 years ago
      
      i like my oat meal lumpy...
  2. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
    
    "Do the Humpty hump,
    Come on and do the Humpty hump."
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      People say ya look like M.C. Hammer on crack, Humpty
      That's all right 'cause my body's in motion
      It's supposed to look like a fit or a convulsion
  3. Brian from Texas 13 years ago
    
    I started a chain of dominos here. Surprised you people remember that song anymore. I played it on a jukebox not too long ago and someone asked if that was Will Smith.
3. Bill 13 years ago
  
  Yeah. That's where I thought he was heading too. Damn shame.
Suki 13 years ago

I smiled.
Ska 13 years ago

I saw this article on my google news feed and it just made me want to punch some faces. Some really nice alternatives to Obamacare.

Link
1. Amakudari 13 years ago
  
  12. An actual free market.
  
  I just thought of that off the top of my head. I must be some kind of genius or something.
  1. Ska 13 years ago
    
    "11 different ways to subsidize insurance companies, penalize consumers, and basically force everything about health insurance"
    1. Almanian 13 years ago
      
      We should try that just to see how it works out.
      
      Oh, wait...
  2. Dollar Hollar 13 years ago
    
    13. Expand Medicare to cover everyone.
    
    It will bankrupt the government sooner than later.
    1. Ominous Parallel 13 years ago
      
      13. Expand agricultural city-Statism to cover everyone.
      
      It will bankrupt mother earth's fertility sooner than later.
      1. Fib E Tard 13 years ago
        
        14. Inhabit caves, pick berries, and hunt gophers.
        
        And don't forget the leeches, Beetchez.
      2. Tard E. Fibber 13 years ago
        
        How about my foot you know where?
        Or is that too ominous?
  3. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    But, but, but in an actual free market, who will command and control everything?
    
    I mean, without central authority, how can something exist?
    
    It would be chaos! Anarchy! Cats sleeping with dogs!
    
    THE END OF THE WORLD!
    1. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
      
      "That's a big twinkie."
    2. Sandra Fluke 13 years ago
      
      How can I get access to birth control unless you buy it for me?
      1. Libertymike 13 years ago
        
        If the fetus knows that you are going to be its mother, that is all the birth control you need.
      2. Libertard Parasite 13 years ago
        
        How can I have [PRIV]ation [PRIV]ileges in agricultural city-Statism (civilization) unless Teh Gummit protects them for me?
        
        Gummit for me, but not for thee.
Bok Sux 13 years ago

"Mary's Stacked & Comcast Sucks" is going back to being Bok Sux, in honor of the FF.
1. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  YAY! We can enjoy the old times for a bit.
  
  Where's The Gobbler, anyway?
2. R 13 years ago
  
  FF? Friday Fail?
3. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  See two or more and they're FFS. Which is usually the reaction to them around here too
marmaduke 13 years ago

Apt.
1. Major Jakov 13 years ago
  
  Whoah, that is big dog!
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Needs more labels.
MANGO PUNCH 13 years ago

HahahahahaahHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha, not.
Habeeb 13 years ago

Better than herpes.
Almanian 13 years ago

First, THANKS for the "Supreme Court" label, or I wouldn't have gotten that part, Chipper. Thought maybe Penis was arguing before the Senate.

Second, thanks for making the Administration Lawyer a penis without ears, cause the Admin does NOT listen to The People? (except the ones they want to), and that lawyer WAS a dick.

All in all, I give you a grade of "D". That's a good day for you, Chip.

Happy Friday, you racist, sexist, homophobic gaycist, mircoaggressing, selfish, hate-mongering, "othering" Reasonoids. You magnificent bastards.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Happy Friday back at you. Hope it gets funnier than Friday Funnies. That shouldn't be hard
2. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  Please note that "penis without ears" above is to distinguish this from the more-customary "penis WITH ears" when referring to a "Dickhead".
  
  Thank you. As you were.
  1. Eyes without a Face 13 years ago
    
    Les yeux sans visage
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFpfTd0EIs
  2. Bobarian 13 years ago
    
    Hey, I thought all the penises (penii, penus?) Bok drew had characteristic big ears... and he colored them darker?
Boom 13 years ago

Are these intentionally bad, or does he just suck?
1. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  Let's ask Bok Sux his thoughts about this...
2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  yes
Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago

That's got to be the worst yet
Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago

Shit. I spent 10 minutes actually studying this and figuring out the meaning behind the images and I'm still unimpressed. Somebody now owes me 10 minutes.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  why do you do this to yourself?
  1. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
    
    My white guilt got the better of me and I felt the need to punish myself for some unknown slight against humanity.
    1. Humanity 13 years ago
      
      Apology accepted!
    2. Treyvon Martin 13 years ago
      
      Fuck you! Trippin cracker. Talkin shit? I'll fuck you up! I'll fuckin kill you!
      1. Barack Obama 13 years ago
        
        If I had a son, he'd probably sound like you.
        
        Or else Biden, maybe.
        
        Michele 13 years ago
        
        So you've been stepping out with Joe have you?
        
        joe jackson 13 years ago
        
        Now the mist across the window hides the lines.
        
        But nothing hides the colour of the lights that shine.
        
        Electricity So Fine.
        
        Look and dry your eyes.
    3. THE WHITE RIGHT TO TAKE 13 years ago
      
      Invisible Hand Fundamentalists ever gonna answer? lulz! glory!
      
      ? Is any white person's right an individual or collective right?
      ? Is the right to take a negative or positive right?
      
      "[The Native Americans] didn't have any rights to the land ... Any WHITE person who brought the element of civilization had THE RIGHT TO TAKE over this continent."
      
      ~Ayn Rand, US Military Academy at West Point, March 6, 1974
      1. Kwanzaa Cake 13 years ago
        
        Fucking die already.
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        Do not engage, I repeat, DO NOT ENGAGE
        
        Comrade POLITICAL OFFICER Nerf 13 years ago
        
        We must defeat the Enemies of the city-State, comrades!
        
        We LOVE STATISM when WI is around.
        
        Da, tovarisch.
        
        Mary Stack 13 years ago
        
        Thinks the mailman wants to kill her.
        
        why you goin' postal, bro? 13 years ago
        
        Die? City-Statists like that 13 years ago
        
        Premise Ten: The culture as a whole and most of its members are insane. The culture is driven by a DEATH urge, an urge to DESTROY LIFE.
        
        http://www.endgamethebook.org/Excerpts/1-Premises.htm
      2. Fib E Tard 13 years ago
        
        Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs.
Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago

I can't tell if he's hard-boiled or just poached
1. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
  
  If I know Bok's sense of "humor", I'd say poached just because of the double meaning.
2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  Soft. Definitely soft.
3. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  we should be grateful Humps isn't throwing away the Constitution with one hand, waving a piece of paper saying "Obamacare", and claiming "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
  
  You can have that one BTW, Bok-bot
  1. Bill 13 years ago
    
    You know who else liked to make references to omelets?
    1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
      
      Alton Brown?
    2. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
      
      Emeril Lagasse?
      1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
        
        Tony Bourdain?
    3. Rich 13 years ago
      
      Shakespeares?
    4. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      Marie Antoinette?
      1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
        
        No. She baked cakes.
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        It takes eggs to make a cake, doesn't it?
        
        Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
        
        Touche
    5. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
      
      '60's Batman villain, "Egghead"?
      1. Jesus H. Christ 13 years ago
        
        Eggzaktlee!!
        
        Eggzellent referrence!
        
        I am eggstremely impressed.
        
        He was one of my fave villains.
Rich 13 years ago

The drumming fingers indicate an overturn is imminent. Thanks, Chip!
Tim 13 years ago

What does Anakin Skywalker have to do with Obama Care?
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  Maybe he'll pick up Obama high over his head and throw him into the abyss?
  1. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
    
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo........
the fall of city-Statism 13 years ago

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

Its in your head now, forever, and you know it is true.

Civilization = agricultural city-STATISM.

The original initiation-of-force was domestication.

Now the whole human race is domesticated. Dominated. By daily city-Statist aggressions.

Aggressions that Fibertards support, whitewash, deny.

Fibertard mocks freedom, autonomy, sovereign individuals in Non-State sociopolitical typology.

Fibertard crows that Might makes Right.

Fibertard jeers at victims of agricultural city-Statist aggression as powerless losers.

FIBertard: OMG! WE NEED GUMMIT TO PROTECT OUR CITY-STATIST PRIVATION PROPERTY PRIVILEGES.
1. WHITE INDIAN TURD 13 years ago
  
  Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs. Eat baybehs.
2. Gilbert Martin 13 years ago
  
  Get back to me when you can prove with uneqiuvocal and absolute definitiveness that my right to own land is one iota less legitimate in any way than your right to own the bag of cheetos that you're stuffing your face with.
Charlotte Corday 13 years ago

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2.....arted.html

Ann Althouse destroys someone named Charles Pierce for his pathetic and bigoted attack on Antonin Scalia.

I understand that there are stupid liberals in the world. There are stupid Libertarians, stupid Conservatives, stupid anything just like there are smart anything. But how is it that the most stupid liberals seem to be concentrated in jobs as commentators for large publications?

And since when is "Tony" a diminutive for "Antonin" as opposed to Anthony?
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Since forever, I'd say. But maybe just since they decided to make diminutives shorter.
  1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
    
    So is Antonin the actual Italian for Anthony? Like Santino is for Samuel?
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Antonin is a French variant, but it pops up in other places too - like Dvorak, who was Czech. BTW Santino != Samuel in Italian. Samuel in Italian = Samuele. Santino comes from santo ie holy or sacred
      1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
        
        My knowledge of Italian names is pretty poor. And shame on me for not knowing Antonin was French. 😉
    2. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Oh, and Anthony in Italian = Antonio
2. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Did she really destroy him? I mean, literally DESTROY him? Because that would be awesome.
  1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
    
    Professor Althouse marching around Madison with Pierce's head on a stick or maybe stabbing him in his bath would be quite entertaining.
    
    But sadly, she only made him look like a fool, which is pretty easy all things considered.
Ice Nine 13 years ago

His "joke" can be conveyed in its entirety without the accompanying graphics. Pretty sad for a cartoonist.
1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
  
  Actually pretty common. All but the most brilliant cartoonists walk over their jokes. Take the cat's lines out of Garfield (leaving John talking and the cat just staring) and it goes from being really lame to oddly surreal and funny.
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    And that's why Gary Larson is a genius.
    1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
      
      Yes. And he only used a single panel. Charles Schultz is another example of how to do it. His best cartoons often ended with no dialog in the last panel. It is what is not said that is often the most important thing.
      1. . 13 years ago
      2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        As it should be for a cartoonist and as was my point above. In this one Bok did the polar opposite.
        
        Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
        
        I was agreeing with you. I was just saying that most cartoonists suck not because they don't have humorous ideas. They sometimes do. But because they execute them poorly by writing too much and walking over the punch line.
        
        sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        Needs more labels.
      3. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
        
        It is what is not said that is often the most important thing.
        
        You just blew my mind...
  2. Amakudari 13 years ago
    
    Still better if you remove Garfield entirely.
    1. Charlotte Corday 13 years ago
      
      I like keeping the cat.
      1. Amakudari 13 years ago
        
        Okay then, what about just removing that fourth frame of Peanuts?
        
        I like the sense of existential dread caused by a handful of omissions.
        
        Amakudari 13 years ago
        
        More 3eanuts.
LIz Jones 13 years ago

lol, OK man those guys really crack me up man. WOw.

http://www.Anon-Works.tk
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

The use of the back of the chairs is certainly a cheap shortcut to draw less.
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  Ah, but he filled in the background behind Humpty to compensate.
Kenny Rogers 13 years ago

I am the Gamboler.
1. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Know when to walk away, know when to run.
Joey Lawrence 13 years ago

You witless nobodies have even less talent than Bok.

Whoa.
. 13 years ago

Gamboling about plain and forest, hunting and living off the land is fun. Farming is not. That's all one needs to know to begin a rethinking of the issue. The fundamental question was properly phrased by Colin Tudge of the London School of Economics: "The real problem, then, is not to explain why some people were slow to adopt agriculture but why anybody took it up at all."

~Richard Manning
Against the Grain, p. 24
http://us.macmillan.com/agains.....ardManning
1. Socialistic Individual Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Needs more [BRACKETS] and bold.
  1. At your service, Sparky 13 years ago
    
    But some scholars have advanced a different theory: that the wall [Great Wall of China] was built not so much to keep the Mongols out as to keep Chinese peasants in. Certainly anyone who got a good look at equestrian life on the steppe would prefer it to stoop labor in the rice paddies of that intensely hierarchical society.
    
    ~Richard Manning
    Against the Grain, p. 44
    
    In 1960, we ran out of new land.
    Richard Manning on the Green Revolution
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xvyRd-uVqM
2. Mary Stack 13 years ago
  
  Likes to Gambol in her living room.
  1. you Mad about Mary, bro? 13 years ago
    1. Mary Stack 13 years ago
      
      Doesn't like it when people recognize her.
      1. you inquisitional, bro? 13 years ago
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0Y39eMvpI
LIz Makers 13 years ago

I never really thought about it liek that before. WOw.

http://www.Anon-Nets.tk
Loki 13 years ago

I'll just leave this here.

http://news.cnet.com/2010-1028-6022491.html

Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."

As near as I can tell this law hasn't been overturned or superseded, and has been on the book since 2006. Thought it might be relevant to some folks...
shrike 13 years ago

Better dead than Red
hmmmm 13 years ago

That solicitor looks like a Tom Baker era Dr. Who villain.
tapirmusic 13 years ago

Finally after months of waiting I am pleased to see Mr. Bok return to drawings of penises! I prefer the brown-skinned ones (who doesn't) but at least I'm satiated...

...For now
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1mammoth 13 years ago

Nicely said
1. 1mammoth 13 years ago
  
  here here!
Jesus H. Christ 13 years ago

Spike Lee, is that you?

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