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Civil Liberties

Friday Funnies: SpiPhone

Henry Payne | 6.14.2013 7:25 AM

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    He downloaded the new iPhone app, BlackfaceTime.

    1. SIV   12 years ago

      "Feets don' fail me now!"

    2. WTF   12 years ago

      ^Fisty made me laugh.

      The comic did not.

      1. Scarcity   12 years ago

        Agreed. FOE crushed Payne.

    3. Zakalwe   12 years ago

      No, that's a stock Obama phone.

    4. Joe M   12 years ago

      "I don't know nuthin' 'bout violatin' no rights!"

  2. Zakalwe   12 years ago

    Is this the laziest Friday Funny ever?

    1. LTC(ret) John   12 years ago

      Indeed it is... only one label!!!

      /Bok

    2. Rich   12 years ago

      RACIST!

  3. 0x90   12 years ago

    Marvin the Martian is NSA, and he's trapped inside Raymond's brother's iPod...

    1. LTC(ret) John   12 years ago

      +1 Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

  4. WTF   12 years ago

    Serves him right for buying an NSA phone.

    1. Bardas Phocas   12 years ago

      Is it as shitty as the Obama phone?

  5. Lord Humungus   12 years ago

    To be, or not to be, that is the question:
    Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
    The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
    Or to take Arms against a Sea of trouble

    1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

      Alas, poor Yorick.

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        I knew him well

        1. LTC(ret) John   12 years ago

          For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
          The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
          The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
          The insolence of office and the spurns
          That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
          When he himself might his quietus make
          With a NSA Phone?

        2. Restoras   12 years ago

          You know noothin', John Snow!

          1. Nephilium   12 years ago

            Not even how to spell Jon Snow...

        3. Arkansaustrian Economics   12 years ago

          I knew him, HORATIO.

  6. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

    Sad thing is, Bok's most recent contributions were so bad I was actually looking somewhat forward to a Payne cartoon.

    As for the cartoon, where can I download the floppy tits app?

    1. Ted S.   12 years ago

      Here's your floppy tits app.

  7. John Galt   12 years ago

    It's funny because spiPhone sounds like iPone.

    1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

      Pwned!

      1. WTF   12 years ago

        iPwned!

    2. Tim   12 years ago

      Who did you pone?

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        Corn. Corn Pone

  8. Bee Tagger   12 years ago

    That mulleted hockey player does not like the look of the new puck design one bit.

    1. Zakalwe   12 years ago

      Steve Jobs got some hair plugs and a nose job in heaven.

    2. LTC(ret) John   12 years ago

      Yeah, somebody tell Payne that the Kings are out as of last round.

  9. Bee Tagger   12 years ago

    Is the mobile carrier for that phone VerEyesOn US?

    1. LTC(ret) John   12 years ago

      Verspieson.

      1. db   12 years ago

        Jackboots Mobile

  10. Tim   12 years ago

    I heard a John McCain soundbite on the radio this morning. He's so horny for war now that Obama has agreed to sell weapons. In case there's any doubts, McCain says that we need to sell not just weapons but heavy weapons to stop tanks, shoot down planes. Plus a no fly zone and "take out" Assad's airfields. Plus a Red Ryder lever action BB gun.

    1. PS   12 years ago

      Doesn't McCain realize they'll shoot their eyes out?

      1. DJF   12 years ago

        Could somebody please find a frozen light pole and dare McCain to lick it.

    2. DJF   12 years ago

      Has he released his latest song yet, Bomb, bomb, bomb bomb, bomb Syria?

    3. Almanian!   12 years ago

      A Red Ryder lever action BB gun??!!one! That could HURT someone!

      *calls Child Protective Services*

    4. Tim   12 years ago

      Santa needs to promise him a crummy football and boot him down the slide.

    5. 0x90   12 years ago

      "McCain says that we need to sell not just weapons but heavy weapons to stop tanks, shoot down planes. Plus a no fly zone and 'take out' Assad's airfields. Plus a Red Ryder lever action BB gun."

      And that's all I need, too! I don't need one other thing!

      Not one -- I need this.

      The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure!

    6. db   12 years ago

      Someone fuel up an old A4 Skyhawk, put McCain in the seat, and tell him to go do what he does best.

      ...get shot down behind enemy lines.

      1. WTF   12 years ago

        And then spend many years as a POW.

  11. Almanian!   12 years ago

    So the new App looks like when The Little Rascals did their variety show in the basement, and when they shut the lights off, all you could see were eyes, CAUSE THERE WERE A BUNCH OF BLACK KIDS IN THE AUDIENCE! Get it??!

    Therefore, racist. I'd think someone writing for the Detroit News would know this, but apparently Payne's one of those White Suburbanites? trying to steal the cities "jewels".

    So now we know where Payne's racism comes from.

    RACIST MUCH, PAYNE? Also, fried chicken, fuck California and 'you know who else was a racist'.

    1. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

      Oh noes, Almanian! has caught a meme virus. Quick, we need to get him into treatment before he's fully brain dead.

  12. SugarFree   12 years ago

    I've been extremely ill for two weeks. This is not helping.

    1. SIV   12 years ago

      Get well soon.

      1. SugarFree   12 years ago

        Thanks. I'm on the mend, swimming in an ocean of antibiotics.

        Avoid having an ear infection spread to your salivary gland. Not only is it painful, the flavor is amazingly terrible.

        1. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

          Just thinking about it made me sick, thanks for the psychosomatic illness SF.

        2. John   12 years ago

          Get well soon. That sounds ghastly.

        3. Ted S.   12 years ago

          This is what happens when Warty rapes you in the ear.

          Seriously, get well soon.

          1. SugarFree   12 years ago

            And I just realized that I came to work with my shirt on inside-out.

            1. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

              so despite your illness you remained fashion forward. Did I ever tell you you're my heeeeeeeero?

              1. SugarFree   12 years ago

                Someone has to class this joint up.

          2. John   12 years ago

            Gonorrhea of the ear is often antibiotic resistant.

          3. LTC(ret) John   12 years ago

            Pretty good one, Ted... but everyone knows that nobody has survived a Warty Ear Rape.

        4. Zakalwe   12 years ago

          That wasn't her ear you stuck your tongue in, friend.

        5. db   12 years ago

          That sounds awful. Have you found an appropriate bourbon pairing?

          Get well soon!

          1. SugarFree   12 years ago

            ***weak stomach trigger warning***

            Brie rind with a hint of clotted blood. Occasional acrid notes, reminiscent of witch hazel.

            1. Tonio   12 years ago

              Get well soon, Sug. Ear infections are the worst.

              At least it hasn't affected your powers of description.

    2. Bones   12 years ago

      But laughing is good for the immune system. And this is the funniest thing ever! It's brilliant and hilarious because of the unnecessary label. See, that's comedy gold right there. This chap bought an NSA phone, see the label tells us that, so, omg this is so good. OK. So, the NSA spies on people, and this fellow bought an NSA phone. And the phone is looking right at him. Spying on him. See? His NSA phone is spying on him. Humor and junk. Why aren't you laughing?

      1. LTC(ret) John   12 years ago

        A smile struggled to find its way to Sugarfree's face. The effort so taxed him, a single tear began to pool under each bleary eye. "For Payne, I must laugh, for...Henry" he thought. But, alas, the effort was too much, and he slipped back into a light coma, dreaming of being pursued by a herd of leather Jackets.

        ~fin

        1. SugarFree   12 years ago

          Their zippers are shark teeth.

      2. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

        You explained the 'joke'. Even if it were funny to begin with that act drains the humor from anything.

        Now I have to go find some suffering to feed off of that won't make me ill.

        1. Bones   12 years ago

          Wow, really?

          1. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

            Bear in mind, my sarcasm detector broke earlier this year and my sense of humor has been classed as a crime against humanity, so take anything I say with a grain of salt.

        2. Tonio   12 years ago

          "The squirrel is dead, that is why the joke is funny."

    3. Gray Ghost   12 years ago

      You have been missed.

      I am imagining the taste from an infection in my salivary system and it sounds even more unpleasant than the aggressive sinus infection I had in the past. About as bad as your bourbon match.

      Best wishes that you get well soon.

  13. Rich   12 years ago

    That's not a spiPhone.

    It's a WaterMelon Z10.

  14. sarcasmic   12 years ago

    So there's this old couple who meet once a week to sit together at a park bench where she would discretely hold his penis. One day he doesn't show. She returns the next week anyway, but after a month she figures he passed on. Then she finds him with another woman. Indignant, she demands "What does she have that I don't have." He smiles, looks her in the eye, and says "Parkinson's."

    1. Lord Humungus   12 years ago

      Mary with the shaky hand?

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