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

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[Fist of Etiquette]

...and bad grammar. No wonder she's voting Republican.

[UnCivilServant]

...?

So what, Herr Grammar, is the problem?

You may not like it, but that is English in common use, which supercedes proscribed English.

[UnCivilServant]

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.

[Ted S.]

Or the campaigning going on inside a polling place.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You must vote GOP. For all the good it does you.

[UnCivilServant]

Don't you tell me what to do!

[PM]

Spread anarchy!

[UnCivilServant]

And here I was expecting a jar of 'Anarchy spread' like vegemite.

[PM]

'Anarchy spread'

Not a bad label name for, say, artisanal mayonnaise.

[Ted S.]

Who the hell wants Vegemite?

(Not counting antipodean freaks like IFH, of course.)

[UnCivilServant]

Who the hell wants Vegemite?

All right, Ted, Have some beef spread instead.

[Heroic Mulatto]

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.

[seguin]

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.

[UnCivilServant]

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.

[Roger the Shrubber]

...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.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Your pedantry if[sic] off the charts.

Please tell me that was intentional.

[lap83]

long s?

[Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)]

iff, yef?

[Roger the Shrubber]

Yes. I caught the wrong prey so I will let you go.

[invisible furry hand]

I've got a bottle and a glass

[hamilton]

Inefficient. That is already 50% too much equipment.

[Almanian!]

And I've got a hand and your ass

*SLAP*

[invisible furry hand]

*slap!*

[WTF]

*SLAP!*

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

*SLAPP*?

[Almanian!]

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGS! NTTAWWT

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Obviously, Almanian got into Agile Cyborg's stash. I'm just a little jealous.

[Gweskoyen]

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.

[UnCivilServant]

Don't you know, they've instituted an elective monarchy in Payneland

[hamilton]

"I am your king!"
"Well I didn't vote for you!"
"You don't vote for kings"

[Almanian!]

You have to know these things when you're king...

[BiMonSciFiCon]

"Moistened bint."

[Rev-Match]

I can't believe how racist this is.

[Almanian!]

Forget it, Rev - it's Reasontown

[PM]

Who is Gop and for which office is he running? Needs moar labelz!

[invisible furry hand]

Gop is a typo for Gloop. Gwyneth has all the answers you need

[Bee Tagger]

That pen is her nose.

[Will4Freedom]

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.

[An Innocent Man]

Someone on the county voting committee has a brother that owns a company that makes arrows on boxes.

[Ted S.]

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.)

[UnCivilServant]

I don't trust those machines - they don't tell me what they think I voted.

[WTF]

They don't need to tell you, they just need to make sure you vote the 'right' way.

[Ted S.]

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.

[Mercutio]

"It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who counts the votes." -- Josef Stalin

[Dweebston]

Yo CHEF, stallin'?

[Idle Hands]

That black guy has some broad shoulders. I bet he can take on the weight of the world.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

And stop the rise of the oceans and heal the planet!

[Cyto]

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.

[Almanian!]

Interloper...

[hamilton]

Oh, you're no fun any more.

[WTF]

Someone misses the entire point of the Friday 'Funnies'.

[Lord Humungus]

*snort*

[Ted S.]

They've got the noses for it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Cartoons are over. Memes are so much better

[Almanian!]

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*

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Drinking early today?

[UnCivilServant]

I don't think he stopped from last night.

[Almanian!]

What - are guys gayfriad to play slap-ass Friday?

*SLAP!!*

God damnit, get with the program!

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Consider this an HR training video

[UnCivilServant]

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!]

You might want to pull that stick out of your ass.

Your choice. No pressure.

But you're like a Snickers commercial this morning.

[WTF]

*SLAP SLAP SLAPPITY SLAP*

[Almanian!]

ow!

[WTF]

You know you love it.
NTTAWWT

[Rev-Match]

I don't think he stopped from last night.

Kudos. I wouldn't have stopped if I didn't have to work today.

[Ted S.]

It's always happy hour somewhere.

[UnCivilServant]

But never here. There's a miasma of misery over this whole place.

[Ted S.]

When you say "here", do you mean H&R or Albany? Because either would fit.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

I prefer "cloud of cynicism" for here.

[db]

I thought we had settled on "vortex of filth?"

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

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?]

Whirlpool of Greed

Sucking Vortex of Need

[db]

Define..."early."

[db]

For that matter, why doesn't it mean "like or in the manner or an Earl?"

I would rather be baronly, myself.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Dukely?

[db]

Nah, I like the.lower levels of the nobility better. Seems like there'd be less pressure.

[Libertarian]

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

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Wow

[PM]

Keep Big Organic out of our neighborhoods!

[WTF]

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.

[PM]

I never realized Tom Hanks was such a giant lefty douche.

And so much more.

[WTF]

Holy shit. Now I know why he was so good at 'playing' Forrest Gump, Hanks actually is functionally retarded.

[lap83]

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.

[Ted S.]

Philadelphia is so awful, it makes Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? look subtle.

[invisible furry hand]

Surprise, surprise, salad-dodging Rob Reiner has a problem with a fresh food market

[lap83]

I laughed.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Same people who express concern about "food deserts"...

[Libertarian]

Yep, it's as if Rob Reiner and Barbra Streisand don't do their own shopping.........

[WTF]

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!"

[UnCivilServant]

Malibu never had 'small-town character', and with so many overpaid, overbearing assholes, it never will.

[Libertarian]

To be honest, I'm surprised at the hostility. Overpriced, organic food. What's not there for a progressive to like?

[WTF]

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.]

Don't they dislike the Whole Foods CEO for not being sufficiently progressive, too?

[mr lizard]

At least he doesn't waste our time putting the mask on. I can respect that.

[lap83]

How about you let the people vote for the establishment with their dollars?

[UnCivilServant]

Because they 'know better'.

[AlmightyJB]

Ohio BWC quotas

http://www.nbc4i.com/story/273.....the-system

[db]

I read that, and I quite frankly have no idea what is going on there.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

It was just one rogue Ohio office.... hey, wait.

[John Galt]

Ha ha ha! It's soooo true!