Friday Funnies: The Government Made Me Buy It

Chip Bok | 11.8.2013 7:00 AM

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cavalier973 11 years ago

I don't get it. Fish don't ride bicycles. This is NOT funny.

/progcultist
1. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
  
  A better prog answer would be "You just don't know that you need it, which is why Top Men need to inform you, and also, you need to buy it to keep prices low for those whose votes we need to buy who deserve our help."
  1. cavalier973 11 years ago
    
    But fish really don't NEED bicycles. People DO need affordable health care administered by the government, else we would have anarchy in the health care market, and people would DIE.
    
    A funny cartoon would have had the fish out of water saying he doesn't need water, when he really does. See, that would make more sense, because it would represent how stupid you anarchists are, who think you don't need health care, when you really do.
    
    /progcultist
2. Stephdumas 11 years ago
  
  Here in Quebec, Canada. We use the term "poisson", a French word mean fish as a counterpart to the word sucker who also design from what I saw on the Free Dictionnairy website:"Any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae, having a toothless jaw and a thick-lipped mouth adapted for feeding by suction."
  1. mad libertarian guy 11 years ago
    
    We use the term "poisson", a French word mean fish
    
    Hey, Canuckistani!
    
    I've seen The Little Mermaid. You don't need to tell me what poisson means, asshole.
  2. KDN 11 years ago
    
    Dictionnairy
    
    I hope this isn't a simple typo, because I just want to say that I love the habit of native French speakers intentionally and repeatedly putting double consonants in words that don't require them. It's one of my favorite things about any Quebec related thread on hockey boards.
3. David Wall 11 years ago
  
  It WAS very funny.
  
  Are you stupid?
  
  Fish out of water: The bicycle is the individual mandate--a government intrusion on individual liberty. IT will carry society (the fish) out of water and to its destruction.
  
  Now that you forced me to explain it, it's not funny anymore. But it had to be done, I guess.
  1. Snark Plissken 11 years ago
    
    No you dork.
    
    The bicycle will force the fish to evolve into a land animal where it will replace humans and ultimately reach it's evolutionary pinnacle. Just as socialize medicine such as Obamacare will help humans reach their full potential.
    1. Agammamon 11 years ago
      
      Its a commentary on the genesis of New Soviet Man!
  2. ReasonableS 11 years ago
    
    It would have been better if the bike was made entirely out of bells and whistles with the fish saying
    
    "My underwater scooter didn't comply with the Affordable Care Act so I had to buy this land bike. It is more affordable, but it is made out of only bells and whistles. It doesn't work."
4. Dr. Kenneth Noisewater 11 years ago
  
  The ironic thing is Obamacare mandates drive transferring even more dollars from males into servicing the increased medical demands of females. So the feminist fish is actually leeching off the bicycle even more!
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

i didn't laugh, but i didn't groan, so this must be accounted a triumph for Bok
1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
  
  We are lining up the triumphal chariot, parade route and legion to march with as we speak!
  1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
    
    Don't forget the slave whispering in his ear "Remember, you are usually only as good as Henry Payne"
    1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
      
      Indeed - if that does not bring him back down to Earth....nothing will.
Jaybirdmojo 11 years ago

Until the oil needs changing!
Generic Stranger 11 years ago

Political Cartoons
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

I will give this much credit - I could at least figure out what was meant to be the joke this time.
1. CampingInYourPark 11 years ago
  
  Now I can't figure out whether you're implying the cartoons are not clear or if you're admitting to being dim witted. Opacity for the win!
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    If it makes you feel better to believe you're smarter than me, go with that one. If you realize I was ragging on the track record of unfunny cartoons, you might have hit upon the truth. It's early yet, and my wordsmithing isn't at its best in these morning hours.
    1. CampingInYourPark 11 years ago
      
      If it makes you feel better to believe you're smarter than me, go with that one
      
      Nah, I was just razzing you. No need to go all Jonathan Martin on me. I apologize.
      1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        I fail troll.
        
        🙁
        
        CampingInYourPark 11 years ago
        
        There are a lot of other bridges to live under. Don't give up yet.
        
        Almanian! 11 years ago
        
        can't tell if unserious
Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago

Death panel at Long John Silver's.
_____

Q: Why did he make you buy that?

A: For the halibut.
____

Some clever third joke about bait and switch.
1. gaijin 11 years ago
  
  Fish of Etiquette
  1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
    
    First (joke of its kind).
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  This isn't the plaice for bad fish puns.
  1. gaijin 11 years ago
    
    would they be ok if I included some typos?
  2. gaijin 11 years ago
    
    You're just being shellfish. Or maybe they are too deep. Can't you fathom it? For what it's worth, Bok seems to be under a lot of pressure.
  3. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
    
    Fugu you
    1. Almanian! 11 years ago
      
      Why are you being so crappy? If you want to carp about this, that's fine - he who dealt it smelt it. If you can salmon the courage to put your enemy's head on a pike, your puffer-y might all be worth it. The sunfish will come up tomorrow, and if others are bluegill with envy, they might skeedaddle like a catfish on a hot tin roof.
      1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
        
        i'm just floundering
        
        wareagle 11 years ago
        
        I'm brimming with anticipation over the next word play that bubbles up.
        
        Rich 11 years ago
        
        Or that comes down the pike.
        
        gaijin 11 years ago
        
        Hey chum, we're all guilty of somefin, right?
        
        Fatty Bolger 11 years ago
        
        No mora! If I keep herring these puns, I might have to gill myself.
        
        PaulW 11 years ago
        
        I disagree, we dolphinately should continue. If anyone has more puns, let minnow.
      2. Francisco d Anconia 11 years ago
        
        Okay
        
        Entropy Void 11 years ago
        
        I knew someone would have to do this ... Thank you, Frankie.
Night Elf Mohawk 11 years ago

That one was actually decent, I think, because of the allusion.
Fatty Bolger 11 years ago

Those are clearly fish, that is very clearly a bicycle, and two of the fish are obviously swimming in water. In other words, as Bok cartoons go, this is an artistic masterpiece.
SugarFree 11 years ago

But what if the the fish and bicycle had a child? It wouldn't be covered under your old crappy plans that you've been told you you don't actually like. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE FISHCYCLE CHILDREN?!?
1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
  
  opponents of gay marriage predicted this very outcome, but did we listen?
  1. cavalier973 11 years ago
    
    And now I have to hire a fishcycle at my florist, against my religious beliefs, and MY CUSTOMERS ARE LEAVING!!!
    1. Neoliberal Kochtopus 11 years ago
      
      I think fishcycle should now be the stand-in for all minority jokes. Like "Canadians" was back in the 1990s.
      1. cavalier973 11 years ago
        
        Q: How many fishcycles does it take to screw up a lightbulb?
        
        A: Three! Hilarious!!
        
        No...wait. I told that wrong.
        
        Q: WHY does it take three fishcycles to screw up a lightbulb?
        
        A: BECAUSE THEY'RE SO STUPID!!!!
        
        hahahahahahah!!!!!
        
        Almanian! 11 years ago
        
        Q: Why did the fishcycle cross the road
        
        A: For moar free shit
        
        HAHAHAHAHAHA!
        
        Also - fried chicken.
        
        Snark Plissken 11 years ago
        
        Q: Why did the vagina smell like fish?
        
        A: Because it was riding a fishcycle!
2. Neoliberal Kochtopus 11 years ago
  
  Fishcycle children are only cute when they're babies.
3. Slammer 11 years ago
  
  Fishcycles only get created when you hit a fish and a bicycle with a bus.
  1. Pope Jimbo 11 years ago
    
    You got fish on my bicycle!
    
    My bicycle was ridden by a fish!
    
    Reeses GM Motors introduces the fishcycle
4. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
  
  Oh come on, how would a fish and a bicycle even have a kid? That can't happen....Unless.... What if they got hit but a bus?
  1. Pope Jimbo 11 years ago
    
    I hate to agree, but if there aren't any BritCars (and they've been trying hardNSFW) there probably ain't going to be any fish cycles.
    
    And it wouldn't even be good fish pr0n either. It would just be a shallow depression full of bikes which is then doused with fish sperm (probably from a helicopter). How many hits on YouPorn is that going to get.
Lord Humungus 11 years ago

The best cartoon I've ever seen... on Reason... which isn't saying much.
1. Snark Plissken 11 years ago
  
  Yeah, I was about to say the same thing. I would even go so far as to say it was fairly clever.
  1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
    
    Whoa, whoa whoa! Let us not go too far, all at once!
cavalier973 11 years ago

That fish needs to have a helmet. Kids might see this cartoon and think that it's safe to ride a bicycle without a helmet.
1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
  
  Nicely done.
  1. Snark Plissken 11 years ago
    
    It has my stamp of approval.
2. DontShootMe 11 years ago
  
  Bravo!
Almanian! 11 years ago

Sucks. Therefore - perfect.

Happy Friday, Reasonoids.
Almanian! 11 years ago

Also, this is pretty clearly a treatise in pen and ink about the death of Lou Reed, which is also the death of Civilization As We Know It.

Matt Welch has a three-part miniseries on Reason.tv about it.

*lights fishcycle incense and downs another shot of whiskey*
1. Rich 11 years ago
  
  fishcycle incense
  
  Nice band name.
Rich 11 years ago

Why can't a bicycle stand up by itself?

It's too tired!
Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago

Um....NEEDZ MOAR LABELZ?
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  "Water" "Fish" "Shore" "American Public" - Sprinkle on cartoon as desired.
2. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
  
  Alt-text is a kind of label... so yes.
The Late P Brooks 11 years ago

Abnormally non-horrible.
Spoonman. 11 years ago

Yeah, but what if the fish gets hit with a bus?
1. Auric Demonocles 11 years ago
  
  Hmmm.... timestamp inconclusive...
Eduard van Haalen 11 years ago

Bok was funny? (Consults Book of Revelation) uh, oh...
Pompey 11 years ago

Why is The Creature From The Black Lagoon/hermaphroditic alien lover of Dennis Quaid from Enemy Mine riding a bicycle? And why in the devil is it talking to fish????
Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago

Its 8:02 - no AM Links - did the intern hit the snooze button one too many times?
johnl 11 years ago

This is funny.
BFawlty 11 years ago

You shouldn't make fun of fish.
Libertarius 11 years ago

"See, the evil insurance companies and the Koch Brothers made the fish think it didn't need a bicycle, but it turns out that they just didn't want to pay for it!"

/progtards on facebook

But seriously, I'm still seeing this "your insurance was crap anyway" non-argument trotted out by the leftoid sheep on facebook. Are these people really this fucking stupid, that they just mindlessly repeat whatever the other leftoids are saying?
wingnutx 11 years ago

Best. Bock. Evar.
alizamkz783 11 years ago

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Rach 11 years ago

Funny double play:

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" -- Patricia Irene (Irina) Dunn

This cartoon is both lampooning that statement, and Obamacare; One of the provisions of Obamacare is for Single MEN to pay for abortion, birth control, and maternity services to defray the costs women need to pay.

I say it is a great political cartoon.
1. don quixote 11 years ago
  
  Good catch!
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