Friday Funnies: Sequestration at the White House

Chip Bok | 3.15.2013 7:00 AM

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Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago

Looks like Michelle never visits the calligraphy office. Dudes are fat.
1. AlmightyJB 12 years ago
  
  Silly. Those rules are just for us Plebs.
2. Wendy J. Elliot 12 years ago
  
  what Peggy answered I'm surprised that a person able to get paid $8947 in one month on the computer. did you see this link... http://zapit.nu/31P
  1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
    
    I saw that Wendy, but I'm making $8948 in one month on Hit & Run so thanks but no thanks
    1. Tim 12 years ago
      
      $8400 of that from just Warty.
  2. Bardas Phocas 12 years ago
    
    So Fist's real name is Peggy?
    hmmmm, that explains a lot.
    1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
      
      And how he has the money, and leisure to time be first, constantly.
      1. Bardas Phocas 12 years ago
        
        Well he/she/it is a cam-whore so between 'shows' it can pound f5.
      2. Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago
        
        Consistantly, not constantly. But you don't want to anger me, or I'll disappear you like I disappeared this morning's brickbat comments.
        
        LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
        
        Oh, it is not anger I should be inspiring, Fist - more like sorrow at my all too apparent jealousy.
    2. Ted S. 12 years ago
      
      She makes her money asking you what's in your wallet.
WTF 12 years ago

Monks? The fuck? Don't monks take a vow of poverty? Or maybe Bok thinks only monks do caligraphy?
1. WTF 12 years ago
  
  Although Obama worship is pretty much a religion, but I doubt that's where Bok was actually going with the monks.
  1. AlmightyJB 12 years ago
    
    Maybe we can just pretend Bok is actually that clever for one week. At least that would be funny:)
    1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
      
      Sure, but one can only stretch their credulity so far.
2. Bardas Phocas 12 years ago
  
  I googled calligraphy club image and got a picture of a bunch of dorky chinese girls (and one guy, who I hope is totally getting it on but is likely gay).
  No Monks Bokkee. Correct your bad cartoon!
  http://www.nanhuahigh.moe.edu......li2012.png
  1. Eduard van Haalen 12 years ago
    
    Chinese calligraphy, I understand, is a bit more demanding than the American kind.
3. Eduard van Haalen 12 years ago
  
  Well, they don't have to pay the monks a salary, but they're so obese the medical bills would be through the roof.
  1. phandaal 12 years ago
    
    So, typical government employee then?
Concerned Citizen 12 years ago

So what, the Fuckhead in Chief can't stop the production of the third Trailer Park Boys movie, which starts Sunday.
1. AlmightyJB 12 years ago
  
  Never heard of it? It the the actual name of the movie?
  1. Concerned Citizen 12 years ago
    
    Don't know the movie's name, but TPB was the #1 show in Canada for 7 seasons. Look them up on YouTube.
    1. BakedPenguin 12 years ago
      
      Better yet, Netflix
    2. Silent Cal 12 years ago
      
      And unlike most #1 shows in Canada, Trailer Park Boys was really good.
invisible furry hand 12 years ago

Are they designing the official White House tattoo?
1. Counterfly 12 years ago
  
  I think it's the official rolling paper.
  1. AlmightyJB 12 years ago
    
    White House Closed? That would be a great rolling paper. I'll smoke to that.
Counterfly 12 years ago

I recognize Edwardian Script when I see it, Bok. Couldn't even do the calligraphy yourself, had to Word it in? You hack!!!
1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  you've seen what happens when he tries being funny, so be grateful he didn't try calligraphy
  1. Counterfly 12 years ago
    
    I was hoping it would be interpretted as arabic and they might issue a fatwa with extreme prejudice.
    1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
      
      so he'd be like Salman Rushdie? Marx was right - history happens twice, first as tragedy, the second time as farce
      1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
        
        You have to admit, it would be Bok being funny for once.
        
        Oh, did you manage to plant a drop bear in Senator Conroy's path just yet?
        
        invisible furry hand 12 years ago
        
        don't need to - it looks like it's all going to hell. He rushed it through Cabinet and declared it had to be rammed through Parliament in just over a week or it would be dead. As this is a minority government it needs the support of the independents, which isn't looking likely. And unless there's a miracle, they'll be voted out in September, and our version of the Republicans has promised to repeal it (their libertarianish wing has been going in hard on this, to their credit)
        
        LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
        
        Well, that is good for Australia...might be bad for you, however, if the H&R commentariat here in the US decides to leave in disgust. You might end with most of us on your proverbial doorstep.
        
        db 12 years ago
        
        I'm curious--what's this legislation?
        
        invisible furry hand 12 years ago
        
        read 'em and weep
2. Teenage Girl 12 years ago
  
  Edwardian, eewwwwww. Team Jacobian FTW!
3. Ted S. 12 years ago
  
  White House invitations should be in Comic Sans. Or maybe Bank Gothic.
SumpTump 12 years ago

Sometimes man you jsut have to rol lwith it.

http://www.EliteAnon.tk
1. Counterfly 12 years ago
  
  You should have put that as a reply to my comment above.
Bee Tagger 12 years ago

No women, no people of color, no lefties. Is there an underprivileged class Obama won't snub?
PS 12 years ago

Actually this isn't bad.

*sobs*

Stop hating on Chip you bitter clingers!
1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  are you in a cupboard with mascara streaming down your face?
  1. Counterfly 12 years ago
    
    'E wos under a duvet, naught jerried up in a cupboard ya daft cow.
Almanian! 12 years ago

Horrible. Other than having nearly enough labels.

Happy Friday, Reasonoids.
Tim 12 years ago

Are calligraphers "at will" flunkies or are they part of some bizarre union, United Pen and Quill Artisans local 1313?
Way Of The Crane 12 years ago

Can You Tell The Difference From White House's $277,000 Calligraphy Staff Invite And Fake Made With Computer?
1. WTF 12 years ago
  
  Not one thing that can be cut from the budget. None.
2. Rich 12 years ago
  
  Yes. The calligraphy staff version looks amateurishly inconsistent in comparison to the computer version.
Ted S. 12 years ago

Why is the link to the Brickbat bringing up a 404?
1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
  
  Fist was stirred to anger and disappeared it. Tempt not his wrath.
Tim 12 years ago

If the story broke that the Vatican had three calligraphers, the media would be all over it. Obama? We trust Him to know what's best.
CampingInYourPark 12 years ago

Where's the AM links? There are a few gems out there:

"Obama couldn't eat at Hill meeting without food 'taster'"

"'He looked longingly at it,' Collins continued. 'He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.'

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03.....z2Nc11LK9x
1. Mainer2 12 years ago
  
  Almost scary reading this, and considering Obama.
  
  http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
2. Silent Cal 12 years ago
  
  In his defense, it was almost the Ides of March. Emperors have to watch their backs.
mtopper 12 years ago

Each????
mtopper 12 years ago

Shouldn't approximately one of the caligraphers depicted by racially diverse?

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