Friday Funnies: It's Not So Good to Be King

Henry Payne | 11.7.2014 7:00 AM

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Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago

...and bad grammar. No wonder she's voting Republican.
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  ...?
  
  So what, Herr Grammar, is the problem?
  
  You may not like it, but that is English in common use, which supercedes proscribed English.
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    What you should be more concerned about is that there is only one box on the ballot, and it's for a party instead of a candidate.
    1. Ted S. 11 years ago
      
      Or the campaigning going on inside a polling place.
  2. Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago
    
    You must vote GOP. For all the good it does you.
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      Don't you tell me what to do!
      1. PM 11 years ago
        
        Spread anarchy!
        
        UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        And here I was expecting a jar of 'Anarchy spread' like vegemite.
        
        PM 11 years ago
        
        'Anarchy spread'
        
        Not a bad label name for, say, artisanal mayonnaise.
        
        Ted S. 11 years ago
        
        Who the hell wants Vegemite?
        
        (Not counting antipodean freaks like IFH, of course.)
        
        UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        Who the hell wants Vegemite?
        
        All right, Ted, Have some beef spread instead.
  3. Heroic Mulatto 11 years ago
    
    You may not like it, but that is English in common use
    
    Sure...in Great Britain.
    
    Which is why it sounds strange to American ears, as it is an idiom that developed after the split between our dialects.
    
    Still your point about descriptive versus prescriptive is well stated. The sin was in "style", not grammar.
    1. seguin 11 years ago
      
      Huh. Its incredibly common here in Tx as well. Interesting. It actually took your comment for me to understand what grammar FoE was talks ing about.
    2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      Dammit, for some reason my mind can't separate the two except with completely contradictary usages of words. I don't know why, I've only been to the UK twice, and I went to NY Public schools.
2. Roger the Shrubber 11 years ago
  
  ...and bad grammar. No wonder she's voting Republican.
  
  She can't even think in incorrect grammar? Is this a thought-crime? Your pedantry if off the charts.
  1. Heroic Mulatto 11 years ago
    
    Your pedantry if[sic] off the charts.
    
    Please tell me that was intentional.
    1. lap83 11 years ago
      
      long s?
      1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 11 years ago
        
        iff, yef?
    2. Roger the Shrubber 11 years ago
      
      Yes. I caught the wrong prey so I will let you go.
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

I've got a bottle and a glass
1. hamilton 11 years ago
  
  Inefficient. That is already 50% too much equipment.
2. Almanian! 11 years ago
  
  And I've got a hand and your ass
  
  *SLAP*
  1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
    
    *slap!*
    1. WTF 11 years ago
      
      *SLAP!*
      1. Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago
        
        *SLAPP*?
        
        Almanian! 11 years ago
        
        FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGS! NTTAWWT
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago
        
        Obviously, Almanian got into Agile Cyborg's stash. I'm just a little jealous.
Gweskoyen 11 years ago

This doesn't make much sense. Why should it bother a king what happens in parliament? Kings don't belong to political parties, so describing Obama as one in this context doesn't work as an insult.
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  Don't you know, they've instituted an elective monarchy in Payneland
  1. hamilton 11 years ago
    
    "I am your king!"
    "Well I didn't vote for you!"
    "You don't vote for kings"
    1. Almanian! 11 years ago
      
      You have to know these things when you're king...
      1. BiMonSciFiCon 11 years ago
        
        "Moistened bint."
Rev-Match 11 years ago

I can't believe how racist this is.
1. Almanian! 11 years ago
  
  Forget it, Rev - it's Reasontown
PM 11 years ago

Who is Gop and for which office is he running? Needs moar labelz!
1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
  
  Gop is a typo for Gloop. Gwyneth has all the answers you need
Bee Tagger 11 years ago

That pen is her nose.
Will4Freedom 11 years ago

If the voter needs an arrow on the ballot box to show them where the slot is... maybe she's got more problems than the "Gop" can fix... not that the "Gop" plans to fix the main problem... Government.
1. An Innocent Man 11 years ago
  
  Someone on the county voting committee has a brother that owns a company that makes arrows on boxes.
2. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  Where I live, you have to stick your ballot into an electronic counting machine in the same way you stick a dollar bill into a vending machine, so the arrows are a bit more necessary as the slot was quite thin. (However, it apparently didn't matter which direction you put your ballot in.)
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    I don't trust those machines - they don't tell me what they think I voted.
    1. WTF 11 years ago
      
      They don't need to tell you, they just need to make sure you vote the 'right' way.
    2. Ted S. 11 years ago
      
      Yeah, I've wondered, too. I don't know if they ever do an audit with the acutal paper ballots to check whether the machine is working.
      1. Mercutio 11 years ago
        
        "It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who counts the votes." -- Josef Stalin
        
        Dweebston 11 years ago
        
        Yo CHEF, stallin'?
Idle Hands 11 years ago

That black guy has some broad shoulders. I bet he can take on the weight of the world.
1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
  
  And stop the rise of the oceans and heal the planet!
Cyto 11 years ago

I know it is the Friday pastime, but you can't bust his chops over this one. It is a perfectly constructed political cartoon with an insightful point to make about checks on executive power and the election results.

As routine political cartoons go, this is as solid as it gets. A solid 7. If you expected a string of 9's and 10's you are in the wrong place. Just a few 8's and 9's would land a position at the top papers. A single 10 could make your entire career. Political cartoons are hard.
1. Almanian! 11 years ago
  
  Interloper...
2. hamilton 11 years ago
  
  Oh, you're no fun any more.
3. WTF 11 years ago
  
  Someone misses the entire point of the Friday 'Funnies'.
4. Lord Humungus 11 years ago
  
  *snort*
  1. Ted S. 11 years ago
    
    They've got the noses for it.
5. Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago
  
  GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE.
Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago

Cartoons are over. Memes are so much better
Almanian! 11 years ago

I don't get it. Awful - therefore, perfect.

Happy slap-ass Friday, Reasonoids. I hope you choke to death on your gruel as you celebrate your TEAM RED victory that all you BOOOOOOOOOSHITLERCHRISTFAGtarians achieved on Tuesday. Cause - shriek.

Fuck you.

*SLAP*
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago
  
  Drinking early today?
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    I don't think he stopped from last night.
    1. Almanian! 11 years ago
      
      What - are guys gayfriad to play slap-ass Friday?
      
      *SLAP!!*
      
      God damnit, get with the program!
      1. Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago
        
        Consider this an HR training video
      2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        Two things. One, I've never participated, but have never criticized those who have. And two, it was your incoherent ranting that led me to conclude you were still drunk and imbibing more than your advocation of 'tradition' such as it is in H&R.
        
        Almanian! 11 years ago
        
        You might want to pull that stick out of your ass.
        
        Your choice. No pressure.
        
        But you're like a Snickers commercial this morning.
      3. WTF 11 years ago
        
        *SLAP SLAP SLAPPITY SLAP*
        
        Almanian! 11 years ago
        
        ow!
        
        WTF 11 years ago
        
        You know you love it.
        NTTAWWT
    2. Rev-Match 11 years ago
      
      I don't think he stopped from last night.
      
      Kudos. I wouldn't have stopped if I didn't have to work today.
  2. Ted S. 11 years ago
    
    It's always happy hour somewhere.
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      But never here. There's a miasma of misery over this whole place.
      1. Ted S. 11 years ago
        
        When you say "here", do you mean H&R or Albany? Because either would fit.
        
        Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
        
        I prefer "cloud of cynicism" for here.
        
        db 11 years ago
        
        I thought we had settled on "vortex of filth?"
        
        Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
        
        Whirling Vortex of Filth
        
        The Detroit condom and tampon one, or the H&R Mexican pot fueled ass sex one?
        
        Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
        
        Whirlpool of Greed
        
        Sucking Vortex of Need
  3. db 11 years ago
    
    Define..."early."
    1. db 11 years ago
      
      For that matter, why doesn't it mean "like or in the manner or an Earl?"
      
      I would rather be baronly, myself.
      1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
        
        Dukely?
        
        db 11 years ago
        
        Nah, I like the.lower levels of the nobility better. Seems like there'd be less pressure.
Libertarian 11 years ago

In other election news:

Residents of Malibu, California, approved a measure to require a vote of the people for many new retail projects, prompted by a plan to build a Whole Foods market in the beach getaway for billionaires and celebrities.

The ballot item, Measure R, spearheaded by actor, director and producer Rob Reiner and backed by entertainment-industry figures including Barbra Streisand, Tom Hanks and David Geffen, passed with 59 percent of the vote, according to election results released today.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/.....alibu.html
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 11 years ago
  
  Wow
2. PM 11 years ago
  
  Keep Big Organic out of our neighborhoods!
3. WTF 11 years ago
  
  Someone should propose a ballot measure to require a public vote on any new film projects for these idiots. And I never realized Tom Hanks was such a giant lefty douche.
  1. PM 11 years ago
    
    I never realized Tom Hanks was such a giant lefty douche.
    
    And so much more.
    1. WTF 11 years ago
      
      Holy shit. Now I know why he was so good at 'playing' Forrest Gump, Hanks actually is functionally retarded.
    2. lap83 11 years ago
      
      That's disappointing. But I guess it shouldn't be. I find that I'm usually better off not knowing about a celebrity's real persona.
  2. Ted S. 11 years ago
    
    Philadelphia is so awful, it makes Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? look subtle.
4. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
  
  Surprise, surprise, salad-dodging Rob Reiner has a problem with a fresh food market
  1. lap83 11 years ago
    
    I laughed.
5. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
  
  Same people who express concern about "food deserts"...
  1. Libertarian 11 years ago
    
    Yep, it's as if Rob Reiner and Barbra Streisand don't do their own shopping.........
6. WTF 11 years ago
  
  Reiner,...takes pride in describing the measure as a "not in my backyard" effort to retain Malibu's small-town character.
  
  "This is 100 percent NIMBYism," he said in an interview before yesterday's election. "Everybody here is a NIMBY. It's all in their backyard."
  
  Shorter Reiner: "I'm an elitist douchebag and proud of it!"
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    Malibu never had 'small-town character', and with so many overpaid, overbearing assholes, it never will.
    1. Libertarian 11 years ago
      
      To be honest, I'm surprised at the hostility. Overpriced, organic food. What's not there for a progressive to like?
      1. WTF 11 years ago
        
        They like the products, they just don't want the physical store in their town. They want it in some other town where they can send their assistants to go get their groceries without having to see the actual store.
        
        Ted S. 11 years ago
        
        Don't they dislike the Whole Foods CEO for not being sufficiently progressive, too?
  2. mr lizard 11 years ago
    
    At least he doesn't waste our time putting the mask on. I can respect that.
7. lap83 11 years ago
  
  How about you let the people vote for the establishment with their dollars?
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    Because they 'know better'.
AlmightyJB 11 years ago

Ohio BWC quotas

http://www.nbc4i.com/story/273.....the-system
1. db 11 years ago
  
  I read that, and I quite frankly have no idea what is going on there.
2. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
  
  It was just one rogue Ohio office.... hey, wait.
John Galt 11 years ago

Ha ha ha! It's soooo true!

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