Shocked and awed appalled
Ziggy, 11/9/04
OK, so, no matter what you may think of the ultimate justification of any particular war, I think we can all agree that experiencing a war is no fun. So can we please have a moratorium on comics jokes derived from war lingo? It’s a little alarming that a phrase that entered the popular jargon when it described firing a cruise missile into a city in an unsuccessful attempt to kill a dictator is here used to denote a bird pooping on Ziggy’s bald head. It’s a serious matter, so let’s lay off the ha-ha war talk, shall we?
Well, except when my dad calls farting in bed “gassing your own people.” That’s still pretty funny. Heh.
insomni
November 9th, 2004 at 9:09 pm
Since you’re discussing what’s funny and what’s not, this is a perfect opportunity to tell you that most of what I’ve read on your site has been hilarious. The way you poke fun at inane or bizarre comics is very amusing. The “lecturing” in this edition wasn’t. Of course, I’m lecturing someone who lectured a cartoon… so maybe I’m a hypocrite? Anyway, my $0.02.
By the way, I came in via Treacher. Oh, and I did vote at the Baltimore Sun.
Rex May
November 10th, 2004 at 9:39 am
Okay, it’s worth a shot.
Anonymous
November 10th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
Actually, the phrase came to be popular from WWII where pilots who either missed there target or were on there way home would strike at “targets of opportunity”.
Mike Donovan
November 11th, 2004 at 2:46 pm
The “lecturing†in this edition wasn’t [very amusing].
I think the preaching was joke that I found amusing. Unless it wasn’t meant to be funny and really preaching… then I guess that’s even funnier because I totally read it wrong.
Mike O-P
January 26th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
BWahahahahahaha! Gassing your own people. That’s just funny. I can’t wait to use it. Tonight.
Jack Foster
April 21st, 2005 at 11:22 am
FYI:
Mauldin, Bill (William Henry Mauldin), 1921–2003, American cartoonist, b. Mountain Park, N.Mex. During World War II he achieved fame with his sardonic cartoons. Depicting the squalid reality of the enlisted man’s life mainly through the portrayal of two cynical and unkempt G.I.’s, Willie and Joe, they appeared in Stars and Stripes and elsewhere. Mauldin’s cartoons won him two Pulitzer Prizes (1945 and 1959). He was a political cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times. Among his principal books of cartoons are Up Front (1945), A Sort of a Saga (1949), Bill Mauldin in Korea (1952), and The Brass Ring (1971). Mauldin appeared in the movies The Red Badge of Courage and Teresa (both: 1951).
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Anonymous
November 20th, 2006 at 6:53 am
Jack Foster — why are you telling us this?