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Policy

Friday Funnies: Stuck Debt Ceiling

Chip Bok | 2.21.2014 7:00 AM

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    If only Capitol Hill was teeming over with pink slips like that.

    1. Pavlov's Cat   12 years ago

      By the time they get around to it, that's the only way they would be able to afford it.

  2. Almanian!   12 years ago

    I don't get it. Seriously. I don't.

    #FirstWorldProblems

    Happy Friday, you manky Reasonoid gits.

    1. WTF   12 years ago

      What is all the pink stuff inside the observatory? Where id the telescope?

      NEEDZ MOAR LABELZ!!!11!!!

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        See? I thought it was a trash compactor or something.

        I. DON'T. GET. IT.

        i haz a sad....:(

        1. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

          That's okay, I'm still trying to figure out why Tom Baker is standing on the Debt half of the silo cover.

          1. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

            "I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you." - Tom Baker

            1. Loki   12 years ago

              "I don't read the script, script reads me."

          2. Pompey   12 years ago

            No no no silly buns, that is the Angel Moroni. I always knew Mormons were controlling Washington!

            1. WTF   12 years ago

              So the Mormons believe in an Italian angel?

              1. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

                he's the angel of special ed.

                1. Swiss Servator, mehr K?se!   12 years ago

                  You...I mean...

                  *shakes head*

              2. SugarFree   12 years ago

                No, Smith was seeing how far he could push it until people realized it was a joke. I mean, the Angel Moron(i)? They really didn't (and still don't) get that?!?

                But they lapped it up and Smith laughed all the way to the bank--a bank filled with money and underage poontang.

                1. WTF   12 years ago

                  That's the best part-he was actually calling his marks morons to their faces and they still didn't get it.

          3. Swiss Servator, mehr K?se!   12 years ago

            +1

  3. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    You know what causes penis captivus? When the glans swells up and splits open like we see here. And no, it's not great.

  4. John Galt   12 years ago

    Large pee hole phallic cartoon.

  5. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

    As wedding cakes go, this is about as bad as these ones

    1. WTF   12 years ago

      The beach cake looks like someone threw up on it.

    2. Rich   12 years ago

      Thanks, ifh! I started losing it at "Cake and Fruit Explosion".

      1. Loki   12 years ago

        The sad part is the cake isn't even the worst thing in that picture. That would have to go to the old man in the background wearing the multi-colored suit and the fez hat. I get the distinct feeling that guy's got a windowless van with a tear soaked air matress in the back.

  6. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Little known fact: Thomas Jefferson actually came up with the design for the retractable roof, although his intended application was to let out of a building the stink coming off all those sweaty wigs.

    1. WTF   12 years ago

      I thought it was to let out the stench of corruption.

      1. John Galt   12 years ago

        A bit of natural ventilation would've worked back then. Today high powered air moving machines would be required.

        1. Almanian!   12 years ago

          High powered air moving machines BUILT BY OUR CRONIES, UPON WHOM WE HAVE SHOWERED TAX AND REGULATORY INCENTIVES, would be required.

          fixed

        2. Pavlov's Cat   12 years ago

          And a tank train load of Frebreze.

  7. The Hyperbole   12 years ago

    Where is Bok getting his news? Who talks about "splitting" "opening" or "retracting" the debt ceiling?

    1. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

      True. Shouldn't it be hanging from something - ie "suspended"?

      1. gaijin   12 years ago

        like a sex swing?

  8. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

    What? I don't get it. I actually need labelz.

    1. Will4Freedom   12 years ago

      I'm with you there.

  9. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

    But you're missing the important news: Johnny Football's hand size is just shy of 10 inches #NFLCombine

  10. Rich   12 years ago

    This is truly baffling.

    It's *raise* the debt ceiling, not "open" or "split" or whatever Bok is trying to say.

  11. Will4Freedom   12 years ago

    I would have drawn a building bulging with I.O.U.s sticking out of windows, doors and cracks in the walls. Obama is trying to rip off the roof and Boehner is offering him a bigger crow bar.

  12. GILMORE   12 years ago

    I don't get it.

    What's more: I don't want to get it.

  13. Jack Holby   12 years ago

    I'll chime in...I don't get it either.

    Good new is, leaving work early to go drinking.

    Happy Friday, Reasonoids!

  14. plusafdotcom   12 years ago

    What the Bok is he trying to say?!

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