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Friday Funnies

How Obama saved 20-somethings from the bad economy.

Chip Bok | 5.18.2012 7:00 AM

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  1. Bee Tagger   13 years ago

    That stripper is not at all happy about the competition she's about to get from jobless co-eds.

    1. fried wylie   13 years ago

      "Shirley, don't sue a stripper. Life sued her and she lost."

      1. sloopyinca   13 years ago

        I have no intention of suing her.

        And stop calling me Shirley.

        1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

          "A hospital? What's that?"

          1. Mo' $parky   13 years ago

            It's a big building that people go to when they're sick but that's not important.

            1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

              It is if you are under 26, apparently.

          2. Mo' $parky   13 years ago

            PS- You messed it up Dr Love. It should be "A hospital? What is it?"

            1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

              I hang my head in shame and build my pyre post haste.

              1. Mo' $parky   13 years ago

                You don't need to make it too big, just high enough to singe the pubes. It's only an Airplane reference after all.

                1. Raistlin   13 years ago

                  Watch it, pal! There's no such thing as "only an Airplane reference!"

  2. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    It looks like someone is trying to kick that purple marital aid through those tiny uprights.

    1. Almanian...still   13 years ago

      +69

  3. sage   13 years ago

    I like how the big eared individual is half black half white. Needs a dog on a dinner plate, though.

  4. Xenocles   13 years ago

    I congratulate Chip Bok on his not terrible offering.

    1. invisible furry hand   13 years ago

      What he said. Reasonable caricature, good central idea, nice jibe in the presidential seal. Didn't make me laugh, but what does? Could it be that Chip-Bot, like anonbot, is becoming self-aware and able to interact with real people? One day he might even pass the Turing test

      1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

        Interesting theory; however, this theory will hold water when they start nuking Bok's illustrated musings with the same extreme prejudice they employ with the noble endangered species, The Anon-Bot.

        SAVE TIGGY FOO! PROTECT TAMPYDAMPY!

  5. Suthenboy   13 years ago

    Fauxbama is planning to save the 20-somethings from the bad economy? What bad economy? I thought we were in a recovery?

    1. db   13 years ago

      The state of the economy depends greatly on Obama's audience.

    2. SugarFree   13 years ago

      You must dissonate your cognate to move forward, my child.

  6. NotSure   13 years ago

    This may be a joke, but there are a scary amount of people that sincerly believe that having a job is being a "wage slave" and believe in movements such as zeitgeist that believe that governments must stop people from working and provide all these things completely for free.

    1. Suthenboy   13 years ago

      It is no joke NotSure. Nor is it funny.

    2. ThatSkepticGuy   13 years ago

      "Wage Slavery" is just the Left Wing's way of using an oxymoronic red herring to distract from the fact that they believe in de facto bondage to the state.

      In other words, a lie so big and contradictory that one can't help but instantly believe it.

  7. Suthenboy   13 years ago

    I hit submit too fast.

    Fauxbama is like a lying kid....he has told so many whoppers that now, no matter what lie he tells ( meaning every time he opens his fucking mouth ), he ends up contradicting some lie he has told in the past.

    1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

      As Fauxcahontas would say, "He speaks with forked tounge."

      1. Brandon   13 years ago

        I think Fauxcahontas would be more likely to say "he doesn't pay enough taxes."

  8. Lord Humungus   13 years ago

    "Seal of the First Female" - now that's funnier than the rest of the cartoon!

    I'll give this a 1.75/10

    1. Almanian...still   13 years ago

      I didn't get the "Seal". -1 for me 🙁

      1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

        Didn't you know? His Pestilency is the First Transgendered President. I have it on good authority that he is secretly a hermaphrodite, and is truly all things to all people. He's also a secret Catholic; the same priest that presided over Damien's birth also witnessed Obama's.

        Wait...that raven wasn't in my office a minute ago...

        1. sloopyinca   13 years ago

          DO NOT PET THAT ROTTWEILER THAT JUST WALKED UP TO YOU.

  9. JoshSN   13 years ago

    I get it, an Iraqi throws a shoe at Bush, so Americans must be throwing shoes at Obama!

    Hilarious.

    1. rac3rx   13 years ago

      No, I think that's supposed to be Jill Abramson's shoe. She was originally scheduled to give the speech at Barnard college, but Obama's people called and invited him to the slot, so she got the boot.

  10. Almanian...still   13 years ago

    I also don't understand the reference to throwing a saxophone. Would that be Bill Clinton being mad at how badly Obama (PBUH) has made the Presidency look, so he's throwing his sax at Obama, and the "seal" represents the future Reich zum Hillary, der thousanad yaren Reich(sp?)!!?

    I think maybe that's it...I am confuse.

    HAPPY FRIDAY, REASONOIDS! And Mary Stack, wherever you are...

    1. 0x90   13 years ago

      saxamaphone...

    2. 0x90   13 years ago

      Saxamaphone...saxamphone.

    3. Cool Story, Bro   13 years ago

      Speaking of saxophones.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder   13 years ago

        That's just not right

  11. Mike M.   13 years ago

    Look out, Dumbo!

  12. Scruffy Nerfherder   13 years ago

    To quote one of my favorite Reasonoids:

    *barf*

  13. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    Why is someone throwing a question mark at Will Smith?

    Doesn't make any sense.

    Needs more labels.

    1. joshua corning   13 years ago

      Its a question mark??

      It looks like a giggling purple inch worm to me.

  14. mr simple   13 years ago

    I get it. Seal of the first female is a reference to Obama being gay because he supports gay marriage, right? Right?

  15. Ice Nine   13 years ago

    Needs more Aborigine.

    1. Mr Whipple   13 years ago

      Is he related to Abbey Nomal?

  16. Mo' $parky   13 years ago

    Previous Chip Bok offerings have at least provided some indication as to what was supposed to be funny. This "cartoon" fails even at that. Maybe I'm just missing something.

    Is the stripper Georgetown student throwing the shoe at him because he forgot to mention free contraceptives?

  17. sloopyinca   13 years ago

    Nothing to worry about if you're the Kenyan-born mulatto with only a Masters Degree standing at Eleanor Roosevelt's podium. That spike heel-shaped drone seems to be defending him just fine by spraying bullets at his detractors.

  18. sloopyinca   13 years ago

    Is the shoe symbolic? I'm trying to figure out why the need for quotation marks around it.

    1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

      Yes, they are not smart quotes, which is why Bok's piece got past that stupid ASCII 50-character limit. Imagine if it had an ampersand.

  19. Tonio   13 years ago

    What's the deal with the whiteboard illustration behind him, the one with the egyptian serpent hieroglyph and the dotted line? Too cryptic, needs moar labels.

    1. 0x90   13 years ago

      It's a treasure map that leads to a, quote-unquote, purple question mark. Given the FIRST FEMALE seal on the podium, I think we can figure out what that means. Bok, subtlety, peas in a pod.

  20. wantgant   13 years ago

    Dude that jsut looks like its gonna be really cool. Wow.

    http://www.Privacy-People.tk

    1. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

      SAVE ANONBOT!

  21. Ralph Wylie   13 years ago

    Didn't Obama federalize student loans by taking the private sector out of the student loan market? It occurred early in his term as president and the US was still in its honeymoon period with the dictator. He also made the US Census a department under the executive branch at that time. The chickens are coming home to roost..and we are so surprised now?

  22. Brandybuck   13 years ago

    Oh gawd, it's Friday already.

  23. sweeterjan   13 years ago

    How Obama saved 20-somethings from the bad economy. http://www.ceinturesfr.com/cei.....-c-16.html

  24. tee shirt pas cher   13 years ago

    Tout comme dans d'autres aspects de la vie, genre rock a trop critiques, affirmant qu'il s'agit d'une forme de bruit et ne devrait pas ?tre consid?r?e comme la musique. Mais de nombreux amateurs instrumentales croient encore que c'est l'?me des paroles et de cantiques, comme l'un des fondements de l'industrie musicale. En effet, il a repris presque toutes les g?n?rations.

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