Comments on: It’s a barrel of laughs!

By: William

William — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:56:39 +0000

There’s a new book from Rowling coming out set in the HP universe so actually Ziggy is spot on AND topical so… not really an issue to gripe about.

By: Kiesha

Kiesha — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:00:11 +0000

I’m mostly concerned with how saggy the breasts on the women in the barrels must be.

By: Mary Dell

Mary Dell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:11:20 +0000

If I remember my Laura Ingalls Wilder books correctly, relatives back east would send things out west by train, and pack the things in a barrel. The Ingalls family received a Christmas barrel in May after the blizzard finally ended in The Long Winter, and at one point Ma explains to Laura that although Nelly Olson has fancy dresses, they “came out of a barrel,” meaning they were premade and therefore low-quality, as opposed to being handsewn in a frontier shack like Laura’s.

So I suppose once you’ve sold all of your goods and clothes, what you have left is the barrel they shipped in. The modern equivalent would be wearing an amazon.com cardboard box.

By: ms. docweasel

ms. docweasel — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:08:12 +0000

oh for flippin’ pete’s sake
don’t we have enough “victim groups?”

I refuse to acknowledge that the murder or injury of a transgendered person is any more tragic or worthy of note than the murder or injury of _any_ person. There are certainly less transgendered people murdered or injured than say, black youths or white straight women. Why do they need a day of remembrance or special attention?

Jesus, get over your special interest victimology. This kind of crap is usually a prelude to asking for dedicated government funds to study the particular problem of transgendered people being murdered and set-aside funds to help transgendered people avoid being murdered, which is just hooey for more government money down a rathole.

I have nothing against transgendered people, but get in the victim line if you want any especial sympathy from me. They are neither more nor less worthy of note than anyone else, and acting like they deserve some additional consideration because of their transgendered state is as bad as being prejudiced against them. It’s a zero sum game and if you are giving extra credit to them, you’re ripping off some other group.

Why can’t we just say all murdered people are victims and worthy of note, instead of separating them into victim categories for special treatment, as if the murder of a gay or transgendered or Inuit or left-handed person means more or less than, say, a white man in Idaho.

God, harassing some cartoonist for an innocuous cartoon because it fell on some random, meaningless “day of remembrance” is worse than stupid, it’s asinine.

By: agony

agony — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:43:49 +0000

Used that link to write to the Agnes creator. Here’s his reply:

Dear Linda,

I assure you, until just now, I had absolutely no idea there was such a thing as Transgender Remembrance Day. My wall calendar only lists days like Easter, Christmas, Flag Day, etc. All my strips are written 6 months in advance. I apologize for the coincidence, and only for that.Agnes is just upset that a young boy was trying to sneak into her girl group. That’s all. No inuendo. No mean spirited transgender hate.

Tony Cochran-cartoonist of Agnes