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Metapost: Slashy, civil comments of the week!

Hi everybody! Please excuse a few programming notes before we get to the comment of the week. First off: Have you noticed that there’s an election coming up? I have, because there’s been an uptick of people in the comments section saying things like “I don’t want to get into politics, but…” but then it’s obvious that they do want to get into politics, because that’s what they do with the rest of the sentence. Thus, this is a time to review the posting and discussion policies, but the gist is: I don’t really care that much if you comment about politics, but it does tend to start fights, and I really, really dislike it when people get into fights in my comment section, and I might just ban everyone involved if it happens, including you, so maybe don’t do that! I understand the urge to get into political fights — I write for Wonkette, for pete’s sake — but the comments of this blog have always been very friendly and civil and I’d like to keep them that way. If you really want to get into political fights, though, I give you permission to do so … on this very post! And no others. If you get the urge to get into a fight on another post, you should come over here and have a politics hate party instead. (I’ll link back to this post more and more as we get closer to the election, I’m sure.)

But I’m not just telling you all this to be a scold! I’m telling all this to set up some true amazing excitement. Those of you who’ve been around for a while might remember how I dealt with the rising tide of political argument in 2008: by ordering the arguers to stop arguing and write Roosevelt/Taft slash fiction instead. And people obeyed this bizarre whim of mine and produced some amazing stuff. (This one was my favorite!) So for 2012, I’m going to produce, on its own separate site, a presidential slash fiction contest, which will bring all of America together in political hilarity! The site will launch in a couple of weeks, but I need some stuff to seed it with at launch, and you people are all talented and amazing, and I am very sure you would like to contribute!

The rules are that in your story there (a) has to be sex, or at least intense romantic longing, (b) between two or more people of same gender, of whom (c) at least one has to be a current or former US president, vice president, prominent candidate for president or VP, or spouse of any of the preceding, and (d) the other(s) has/have to be real living or dead prominent people/historical figures (and could of course be a president/VP/candidate themselves but don’t have to be). Is time travel allowed? Yes, of course time travel is allowed! How else would Ron Paul lecture William Jennings Bryan about the gold standard, and then they get it on? So, mail your stories to bio at jfruh dot com, and let me know how (or if) you want to be credited, and you will become famous, if I decide to use it!

THIS IS EXCITING STUFF, RIGHT? So obviously I’m fleeing off to a vacation. Uncle Lumpy will be here until the 26th. Be nice to him!

And finally, at long last, here’s your comment of the week.

“Years later Curtis is going to be in therapy for this, and the worst bit is at some point the therapist is going to stop believing him. ‘Okay, so you say she was dead. Hmm. Wait, what? You did what with the light bulbs? I think I’m going to have to cancel our next session. And the one after that too. Yes? Basically, never contact me again.’” –Holly Folly

And the runners up! Very funny!

“Sadly, ‘watching the Lawrence Welk Show’ is the plugger phrase meaning ‘died in his easy chair.’” –BigTed

“Perhaps the Phantom should be less concerned with los narcos in town and look into the real underground economy — steroids, which every man, woman and child in El Dodga seems to be taking.” –Islamorada Girl

“‘Hand it over, girl’? Has this strip been reformatted as Dennis the Sassy Gay Friend?” –Irrischano

“Everyone is ridiculing Dennis for wanting a penny, but when the train jumps the tracks and goes barreling through Mr. Wilson’s living room, we’ll see who’s laughing. That’s what we in the business call menace.” –Anonymous

“What could have been a seriously dangerous situation has devolved into a simple minor property crime. The sheep murderers are also camera snatchers! That will add about 30 days to their sentences when Rusty’s mom emails their pictures to the game warden.” –Mark B.

“Archie proves that poor people leave a trail of poverty stench behind them.” –Izzy

“‘And I promise Aunt Cathy, I’ll buy us some cell phones NOT made in the 1990s with the money from my new job!’ ‘Whatever dear, it’s not like I can even hold this one right-side up anyway.’” –Justin

“It might not be oil. It might be the fog of despair previously seen blacking out the sky, trying water for a change.” –maarvarq

“Any financial institution willing to take responsibility for Ziggy’s crap deserves to fail, and there’s no ‘too big’ about it.” –Doctor Handsome

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197 responses to “Metapost: Slashy, civil comments of the week!”

pugfuggly
August 17th, 2012 at 8:58 am [Reply]

I don’t want to get into politics, but presidential slash-fic sounds awesome.

“Rutherford B. Hayes” just might be the hottest thing to yell out during sex ever.
Chyron HR
August 17th, 2012 at 8:59 am [Reply]

Can’t we talk about something inoffensive and uncontroversial instead?

Say, how about that comic book superhero movie that came out this summer? It sure beat the pants off that rival publisher’s comic book superhero movie that also came out this summer, didn’t it?
C. Sandy Cyst
August 17th, 2012 at 9:02 am [Reply]

Looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.
Mibbitmaker
August 17th, 2012 at 9:02 am [Reply]

I don’t want to get into politics, but…. politics.
I’m sorry you had to see that.
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 9:34 am [Reply]

Ziggy watching a political ad.
UnclGhost
August 17th, 2012 at 9:39 am [Reply]

ron paul suck
Horace Broon
August 17th, 2012 at 9:46 am [Reply]

Congrats to the floaters!

As a non-American, I don’t feel I can join in the US politics thread. I can talk about how annoying I find all sides in the Scottish Parliament, if anyone cares?
Mark B.
August 17th, 2012 at 9:55 am [Reply]

Well, I got it wrong, anyway. Cherry isn’t going to email the photos to the game warden, they are printing them out and Rusty is going to hand carry them to the office. Meanwhile, the bad guys will be long gone.

I guess it was a huge leap forward when Rusty used a digital camera, but you don’t want to introduce too much technology too quick. Especially when Cherry has beenl using the same home perm product since the 60s.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
August 17th, 2012 at 9:56 am [Reply]

how Obama will Finish Mitt.

anyone reserved Hillary/Space Alien yet?
Naked Bunny with a Whip
August 17th, 2012 at 9:59 am [Reply]

Have you noticed that there’s an election coming up?

Technically, there’s always an election coming up.

Oh wait, I was supposed to say something inflammatory, not snobbish.
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 10:00 am [Reply]

@Horace Broon (#7): Scottish Parliament? Isn’t that an oxymoron or something?
Naked Bunny with a Whip
August 17th, 2012 at 10:01 am [Reply]

I only support political parties with extraneous U’s in their names.
Acilius
August 17th, 2012 at 10:02 am [Reply]

@Horace Broon #7: How about Joe Biden/ Alex Salmond slashporn? There could be a hair transplant fetish involved.
Naked Bunny with a Whip
August 17th, 2012 at 10:05 am [Reply]

If I tried writing presidential slash fiction, it would end up looking like an X-rated Capitol Critters.

Hmm….
Charlene
August 17th, 2012 at 10:05 am [Reply]

Is it still slash if the characters are/were really gay?

James Buchanan, I’m just sayin’.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 17th, 2012 at 10:05 am [Reply]

The candidate I back is the only one who can turn America back onto the path of prosperity and freedom! The other guy is a two-faced, deceitful liar using the power of the media to fool uninformed dupes into voting for him. Don’t be fooled!
TheDiva
August 17th, 2012 at 10:08 am [Reply]

Congrats to the happy float people!

I don’t want to get into politics, but I’m going to start prefacing everything I say with “I don’t want to get into politics, but” just to screw with people’s heads. (Seriously, I really don’t want to get into politics–we’re a swing state this year and the air is thick enough with mud and bullshit as is.)
Naked Bunny with a Whip
August 17th, 2012 at 10:08 am [Reply]

@The Spectacular Spider-Brick (#16): I’ll definitely vote for one of them, maybe.
Naked Bunny with a Whip
August 17th, 2012 at 10:09 am [Reply]

@TheDiva (#17): I’m from Iowa. I was sick of it before Christmas.
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 10:12 am [Reply]

I saw some newborn calves on my way to work this morning. That was better then politics.
Naked Bunny with a Whip
August 17th, 2012 at 10:14 am [Reply]

@Sequitur (#20): My favored candidate is totally popular with cattle! Wait…
Esther Blodgett
August 17th, 2012 at 10:17 am [Reply]

Is it true what they say about Bill Clinton’s wiener?
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 10:21 am [Reply]

@Esther Blodgett (#22): Does it plump when you cook it?
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
August 17th, 2012 at 10:21 am [Reply]

obligatory political message.
Ned Ryerson
August 17th, 2012 at 10:22 am [Reply]

It does not matter which way you vote. Either way your planet is doomed. Doomed. Doomed.
Anonymous
August 17th, 2012 at 10:23 am [Reply]

@pugfuggly (#1): I prefer “Grove her Cleveland!”
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 10:24 am [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#24): Now there’s a candidate Senator Kevin from Prickly City can run with.
Anonymous
August 17th, 2012 at 10:24 am [Reply]

Do we get extra points for using “Santorum” as a verb?
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 10:25 am [Reply]

@Anonymous (#26): Grove her? I hardly know her!
Crankenstank
August 17th, 2012 at 10:25 am [Reply]

Long Live Whiggery! DOWN WITH THE TORIES!
Biggus Dickus
August 17th, 2012 at 10:27 am [Reply]

Does it have to be American politicians? I have a hankering for some Stephen Harper / Michael Ignatieff bromance with John Barrowman in a hot tub.

Mmmm. Better use an alias for this one.
Crankenstank
August 17th, 2012 at 10:27 am [Reply]

@Anonymous (#28): points off for posting this word anonymously.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
August 17th, 2012 at 10:28 am [Reply]

@C. Sandy Cyst (#3):

“Damn! How does the spambot keep its material so fresh?”

“Dont.Praise.The.Machine.”
Bill Peschel
August 17th, 2012 at 10:29 am [Reply]

After reading Baby Blues, I had to research a kapalua butterfly:

2/3 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup dark rum
6 tablespoons canned cream of coconut (such as Coco López)*
1/4 cup sweet and sour mix
2 tablespoons grenadine
2 teaspoons frozen orange juice concentrate, unthawed
20 (about) ice cubes

Available in the liquor department of most supermarkets.

Not sure which supermarkets have liquor departments, thought. Not in bloody Pennsylvania (although some have state stores attached to them).
Ian Beste
August 17th, 2012 at 10:33 am [Reply]

@Bill Peschel (#34): Must be consumed by men wearing a guayabera shirt or women wearing a tropical-patterned skirt and bikini top.
Esther Blodgett
August 17th, 2012 at 10:35 am [Reply]

@Bill Peschel (#34): When I was growing up in Milwaukee, most of the Kohl’s supermarkets had attached liquor stores. Just in case you couldn’t get to one of the six liquor stores you passed on your way to the supermarket.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 10:35 am [Reply]

Happy Vacation Josh and Amber! I take the CC Salmon Square pledge to play nice.

Ah, politics – I try to avoid the subject, even on Pacebook, as I have longtime real-life friends with various views and party affiliations, ranging from pacifist hippie to Libertarian to Republicans, NRA supporters, and Army vets. Some are Christian, some Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist, some are Agnostic or Atheist. All good people with different views, all of whom would give the shirts off their backs to help another in need. Personally I verge toward medium rare democrat with a Libertarian twist and an occasional tweak of viewpoint depending on what’s going on/what pisses me off or concerns me.

Hard to believe we’re in another election year already.

The poly slashfic sounds awesome, though! I’ve watched “Who’s Nailin’ Palin” on YT with all the nasty bits cut out – it’s pretty funny, and I’m looking forward to reading, and perhaps writing, some!
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 10:39 am [Reply]

@Calico (#37): You work at the UN don’t you.
Esther Blodgett
August 17th, 2012 at 10:44 am [Reply]

Political slashfic? Ah, my dream encounter between Groper Cleavage and Hairy Ass Truman may finally reach fruition!
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 10:45 am [Reply]

Foob, 8/16 – Lynn reveals she had pica as a child
Foob, 8/17 – Lynn used to psychologically torment her children
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 10:45 am [Reply]

@Bill Peschel (#34): The only state I remember seeing a liquor department inside the supermarket (not a seperate store) was in Louisiana.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 10:46 am [Reply]

@Sequitur (#38):
Kofi and I are in like Flynn! : )
@Esther Blodgett (#39):
Oh my, that sounds fantastic.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 10:52 am [Reply]

@Naked Bunny with a Whip (#19):
Ugh, I’ll bet.
We have a Provincial election coming up in Quebec Sept. 4, (Charest is playing a fairly dangerous hand by calling this) and already I’m burned out, and I can’t even vote here (yet). I do find it a bit more fascinating than the US stuff because of the language and culture debate, though.

OK, more comics and zippers!
DAS
August 17th, 2012 at 10:52 am [Reply]

Are political comments on other threads allowable so long as they display Herb & Jamaal style non-specificity or are limited to disparaging remarks about drunken duck (and I don’t mean the Perfessor)?
LP2004
August 17th, 2012 at 11:06 am [Reply]

@Crankenstank (#30): If I’m going to continue speaking with any of you, I need to know: Guelph or Ghibelline?
Rob
August 17th, 2012 at 11:09 am [Reply]

Finally, a chance for my series of Roseanne Barr/Sarah Palin novels to get published!

Should I include my penciled illustrations inline, or in a separate attachment?
Downpuppy
August 17th, 2012 at 11:15 am [Reply]

The female possibilities are pretty weak. Ferraro or Palin? {shudder} Hillary Clinton? Done to death. Victoria Woodhull, Barbara Jordan, Bella Abzug? Nah.

Guess it’ll have to be Tricky Dick in a Nixon mask. Again.
Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol
August 17th, 2012 at 11:17 am [Reply]

Dilbert — I’d gladly pony up $85 to watch Dogbert do his “work”.
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 11:19 am [Reply]

Has anyone mentioned Lincoln’s log?
Dr. P and the Women
August 17th, 2012 at 11:22 am [Reply]

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others! We must go forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling,? twirling, twirling towards freedom!

….unless of course you vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, in which case it’s abortions for nobody and miniature American flags for everyone. In lieu of paychecks, as we twirl away from freedom faster than the speed of sound. (cough) Ok, I’m done now. Vote Kodos!
Jamoche
August 17th, 2012 at 11:23 am [Reply]

@Naked Bunny with a Whip (#12): I’ve always been fond of the concept of a Monster Raving Loony Party. If nothing else, they have the benefit of truth in advertising.
Artist formerly known as Ben
August 17th, 2012 at 11:34 am [Reply]

MT: Well now, Cherry, that depends on a few things. If the poachers keep consistent facial features from panel to panel then yes, there’s a good chance the game warden will recognize them. That would distinguish them from some people I could name.

MW: “It’s a life-changing experience, like being wife/caretaker to an increasingly doddering old man. Or so I hear.”

Ziggy: Is Ziggy getting anything from the Randy Travis interview?

FW: If this is how John speaks to Becky on a regular basis, I can’t say I’m surprised that bedtime is dead time.

Archie: “… and to Keith Haring knockoff t-shirts.”

JP: It’s funny because it sounds like they’re talking about Avery paying Bea for sex. Hey, maybe Sam will have another contract to draw up tonight.

GA: No don’t. The rabbit-eared mule could get hurt. There might be other downsides too, although I can’t think of them.

HtH: It’s not entirely clear what a bake sale in Medieval Scandinavia would go to support. Helga’s status as inventor of the bake sale?

DT: I have a feeling that Dick is faking a heart attack so that he can panic the people trying to kill him by thinking that he’s going to die. Not saying I can make sense of it, but I’m pretty sure that’s what’s happening.

GT: Work on the Tyson thing, Steve. There’s no ear biting in golf. Although if there were, it could rake in some big pay-per-view dollars.

Blondie: Dagwood’s caterer wife will delight the whole office by bringing her own cupcakes in. She may also bake some.

6C: Today’s gossip is going to be all about the supply clerk who came in with a raging hangover.

SSmith: “Th’ hills? Oh, you mean the toxic waste dumps. Well, they just started in ’85.”

SFx: As crazy and nightmarish as the hotdog drawing is, I still prefer it to TJ’s version.

A3G: I like to think that Margo is about to tap her nose to punctuate the “nice chat” part. “It will be a good meeting, as long as we have the right refreshments. You did pick up that six-pack of coke, right?”
Islamorada Girl
August 17th, 2012 at 11:39 am [Reply]

Since my FB timeline is about 68 column inches of Democrat/Liberal stuff every day and these people are preaching to the choir, I’m going to use this space to pass on the word that the WashPost announced Richard Thompson will cease Cul de Sac in September as his Parkinson’s gets worse and worse. There has never been a nicer, more modest guy than Richard, and he just happens to be one of the funniest people in the universe, so this is a massive sucking hole in the culture. Cul de Sac doesn’t get a lot of coverage here, because it’s so good. But if tying Romney and Rylan to the top of an SUV and driving to Canada would cure Richard, I’d do it and damn the consequences. Sometimes, life just hands the best people the worst
crap. Thanks Richard for everything.

If you like, there’s a tribute book done by other cartoonists to support Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s Research Foundation, and you can help by buying it. All proceeds go to research.

Oh, and Rush Limbaugh is a giant, stinking intestinal cyst who has a warm chair in Hell’s Hitler Stadium reserved for him. Thank you.
Mibbitmaker
August 17th, 2012 at 11:42 am [Reply]

(pdq) — Wanting to be neither a hood ornament nor dinner, Marmaduke, Snoopy, Barfy, Earl, Odie, Grimm, and others of their compatriots together decided they were going to move to Canada after election day, no matter who wins.

Fred Basset, relaxing in England, had no comment
Artist formerly known as Ben
August 17th, 2012 at 11:44 am [Reply]

Congratulations to the COTW folk. I had a nice guffaw over irrischano’s Dennis the Menace comment.

Probably going to ignore any political fights that spring up here, but this presidential slash thing may get my creative juices flowing.
Ian Beste
August 17th, 2012 at 11:47 am [Reply]

@Dr. P and the Women (#50): Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Artist formerly known as Ben
August 17th, 2012 at 11:48 am [Reply]

@Biggus Dickus (#31): Have you got permission from Billy Joel to use his song “Captain Jack”?
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 11:51 am [Reply]

@Mibbitmaker (#54): Everything you need to know about Fred Basset
The Control Voice
August 17th, 2012 at 11:57 am [Reply]

@Santa Royale With Cheese (#y46): JP: Will someone please adjust the vertical hold on Avery’s glasses?

/wonders if anyone gets the joke

My bad. I meant to stop after I changed him to a soft blur. Now sit quietly as Harry “Cannon-cocker” Truman takes Warren “Ahm-a-lyin’ here” Harding to his outer limits.
Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol
August 17th, 2012 at 12:01 pm [Reply]

@Dr. P and the Women (#50): Now, when you say a candidate is giving away miniature US flags, are we sure they are “proper” flags? Last major election, a congressional candidate in my area gave away non-US-made flags (I won’t mention the country where they were made), complete with 48 stars and 12 stripes.
Kauri
August 17th, 2012 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

Josh’s link to his favourite presidential slash/fic led me to a page including a post by the late but never forgotten Dingo. When I clicked on his name it took me to his You Tube channel, which is still active and full of comics themed music videos. I watched Mary Worth: Dancing Queen in his memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhiYsW7T2o&feature=relmfu
Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol
August 17th, 2012 at 12:07 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): “Oh, and Rush Limbaugh is a giant, stinking intestinal cyst who has a warm chair in Hell’s Hitler Stadium reserved for him. Thank you.”

I don’t see that this is a very political or biased statement at all. It is my very liberal opinion that more people would vote conservative without his presence in the world. Oh, well — you can’t fault a guy for coming up with a money-making schtick and using it (unless you are a Democrat, for which I’m told that money-making is a sin).

Bill The Cat in ’12!!! He’s been “one of us”! http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3032/2853127942_4c96eac346_z.jpg
Kauri
August 17th, 2012 at 12:10 pm [Reply]

Correction: Okay, Dingo’s page (under the name falsehurrah) only has two actual comics music videos, although you will be directed to many other Mary Worth videos done by others, some highlighted here at one point or another.
Bill Peschel
August 17th, 2012 at 12:16 pm [Reply]

@Artist formerly known as Ben (#57): Heh. No, but Doctor Who did. Surely he must outrank a captain.
Nehemiah Scudder
August 17th, 2012 at 12:17 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): 2nded
odinthor
August 17th, 2012 at 12:19 pm [Reply]

#Y42. TheDiva. –

It’s ostensibly erotic, but it’s really incomprehensible, pretentious, and dragged out for way too long.

But, enough about marriage . . .
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 12:40 pm [Reply]

@Ed Dravecky (#Y9): I’m already hearing “Dust In The Wind Polka” in my head and picturing the band teeshirt. Dismal Corn is headed for the big time. I can feel it.
Chaze
August 17th, 2012 at 12:44 pm [Reply]

Congrats to all of the COTW winners. I’ll keep pluggin’. Guess that makes me a Plugger. Shoot me now. Please.

Because of my business, I lobby in DC quite a bit, both sides of the aisle. I have come out of it even more cynical than when I started. I’ve stopped arguing politics because that is not what they do there. They want power and to control the purse strings.
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#67): Dave used to shuck my corn.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 12:50 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#68):
Yes, and that is what understandably pisses people off.
(See? That ‘s my Libertarian blood acting up)
I thought government was supposed to work for us … *heh*
Droopy Says
August 17th, 2012 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

Let’s celebrate the one actual accuracy in today’s Spider-Bland. It looks like the web is coming out of the same area from which real spiders shoot their webs. In other words Spiderman pulls it out of his ass, just like his ideas.
Pedant
August 17th, 2012 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

@Downpuppy (#47): The rules also include spouses of presidents, vice presidents, candidates, and only one of the people has to be a US political figure. So you could do Jackie O/Susan B Anthony or Sarah Palin/Margaret Thatcher. It just involves a little more imagination.
Snarkotix Addict
August 17th, 2012 at 12:54 pm [Reply]

“The rules… the others have to be real living or dead prominent people/historical figures…”
Huh. So no comics characters. Or ‘mudges. And I had such dreams for Evan and me! And Franklin Pierce.
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 12:54 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): Oh no. Oh no. I am so sad.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#74):
I wish Mr. Thompson the best.
Hank
August 17th, 2012 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

@Pedant (#72): Sarah Palin/Margaret Thatcher. It just involves a little more imagination.

Sarah Palin/Debbie Wasserman Schultz and people might actually pay for it.
Esther Blodgett
August 17th, 2012 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

@Pedant (#72): Spouses?

“Oh, Milhouse,” murmured Tipper as she felt Tricky Dick’s touch. “Talk dirty to me, like a 2 Live Crew album with an ‘Explicit Lyrics’ sticker.” “Put one of those stickers on my ass, Tipper, and I’ll sing you Prince’s entire filthy oeuvre. Haroooo.“
Alfred E. Neuman
August 17th, 2012 at 1:27 pm [Reply]

@Artist formerly known as Ben (#52) said: “Blondie: Dagwood’s caterer wife will delight the whole office by bringing her own cupcakes in. She may also bake some.”

Definitely Padumpum!-worthy.
This Guy
August 17th, 2012 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): I’m sad now. Guys like Thompson and strips like Cul de Sac don’t just come along every day.
Ed Dravecky
August 17th, 2012 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

As I’ve said elsewhere… I can’t believe that half the country is going to vote for that guy with the foreign-born father, controversial religious ties, and a weird middle name. And the other half? Don’t get me started.
tallyHO
August 17th, 2012 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

First of all, congratulations to all you meddling COTWeekers.

You each brought smiles on platters of gold.
Your mirth unlike the earth never gets old
Your breath however…whew ehugh foo

PLOP!

@Islamorada Girl (#53):

It is a drag to read about Thompson but do want to say good for you bringing up the strip ending here. I saw it mentioned on another site and was kind of shocked it wasn’t mention here, yet.

Other than that sad news, you don’t know how happy your comment made me. The rest of it is alright. While I don’t think webpages would be referred to as having “column inches” I just hate the metric system so much that give me an inch and I’ll put a foot down! (just kidding. for some reason newspaper lingo make me happy.)
Mayor Dalton's Prostate
August 17th, 2012 at 1:39 pm [Reply]

Dalton 2012!

(Yes, this is still a thing. I’m as surprised as you are.)
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

Congratulations to the triumphant float-riders, Holly Folly et al! Nice work all, and I needed a long laugh.
tallyHO
August 17th, 2012 at 1:43 pm [Reply]

What else make me happy?

When Hulk have politcal-philosophical dialogue with Mistopher Trendy.

That Thar Debate between Great Mines Will Happen As the Crow Flies totely coat the Hollerberry Pie in the Winder Sill!.

(Hulk translation: Sometime Around Smash O’ Clock, the cocktail hour.)

//the promises I make when I forget to add an “S” in an earlier post.
Ed Dravecky
August 17th, 2012 at 1:48 pm [Reply]

I have this horrible notion of LBJ holding his lover up by his or her ears… but who to pair with him? And how many “Johnson” jokes can I stand? Hmm…
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

@Ed Dravecky (#85): There’s always Andrew Johnson. Something about Johnson & Johnson and Band Aids.
Bootsy
August 17th, 2012 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

@Bill Peschel (#34):

Not sure which supermarkets have liquor departments, though.

Really? Every grocery, pharmacy, convenience store, gas station and drive-through daquiri store I pass in this town has a liquor department. Hell, the kid on the corner’s lemonade stand I think has beer on draft.
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

I look forward to reading the bizarre demented brilliant slash fiction winning entries. I think.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
August 17th, 2012 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

FW – Oh, yeah, that’s right, my mom did go after your store. So you win that round. Looks like I need to pull out the big guns … the doctors say I might have cancer. No big deal, join the club, huh? Except … I have cancer in my arm. No, not this one. THE MISSING ARM. Yep. They can’t even do a biopsy to see how far it has progressed because the arm is missing! But, they are pretty sure it is terminal. TOP THAT MOTHERFUCKER!!!!
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 17th, 2012 at 1:59 pm [Reply]

Archie: Props to the color monkeys for at least trying to represent Jughead’s torso in panel 2.

BB: Oh, yeah, that guy! I remember his routine about the dumb sergeants. It’s a real laugh riot. I hear he’s going on Conan to talk about the different way some people pronounce “colonel.” Ha! Ha!

C’haft: Oh, I get it. He wants the kids to have their water fight on his lawn so his lawn will get watered, so he doesn’t have to wait ONE FLIPPING DAY until it’s his side of the street’s turn to water. Makes perfect sense. Or at least it makes more sense than when I thought he was yelling “Stop getting off on my lawn,” because that would indicate Crankshaft understood and correctly used slang from this century.

JP: “I offered her money and she turned me down!” “Sorry, Shorty, but you physically repulse me! Besides, it’s traditional to offer money before you honk my boob!”

Ghost-Who-Skypes: Hey, who’s this black woman Walker’s video-cheating with? It sure as hell ain’t his lily-white wife!

Pluggers: GAH. IT’S NOT LIKE TWEETING. STOP SAYING TECHNOLOGY TERMS LIKE THEY WERE PUNCHLINES.

RWO: Now, if there were a chicken and an egg sitting at the counter, THAT would be a joke.

S-M: “Today on the Bad Hair Day network, we’re going to interview a man who keeps his hair mashed under a hood all day!”
Dale
August 17th, 2012 at 1:59 pm [Reply]

Is
“I don’t want to get into politics, but …”
more or less obnoxious than
“I don’t mean to interrupt, BUT …”
?

I am thinking of at least one TV loudmouth. Which one?
Not a trick question. I’m really not sure at the moment.
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

Politics. Good to know I can come back here in the future and rant if I want — thanks, Josh. For now I’ll just say that I really wish I could wave a magic wand and make the entire United States of America scientifically-literate. We would still face incredibly difficult unpleasant choices, but at least I wouldn’t feel so much like banging my head hard on concrete when I listen to some of the discussions. That is all.
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

9CL — Could we please skip the rest of this snorefest and watch the mice in the Nutcracker Suite instead? I love the mice in the Nutcracker Suite. I always wish they would win.
Bootsy
August 17th, 2012 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#93):

They don’t? They do in my head.
Nehemiah Scudder
August 17th, 2012 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

@Ed Dravecky (#85): I have been reading Robert Caro’s books on LBJ recently. An astonishing man.
Irrischano
August 17th, 2012 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

thanks josh!
tallyHO
August 17th, 2012 at 2:39 pm [Reply]

Serious)

if this is to be a default and future post centering around politics then are any comments related to today’s comic strips worth posting here?

Usually, commenting migrates to the newest thread if there’s more than one Topic a Day. So, if theoretically, I go to make fun of something, should it be here or on the earlier one?
Droopy Says
August 17th, 2012 at 2:50 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#92): I second the motion, even if the motion isn’t the waving of a magic wand. (I’m still grumbling over the not-distant-enough relative who comes up with crackpot theories and wants me to prove them for him. “No, I’m not doing your homework for you.”)
un malpaso
August 17th, 2012 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

I want to try my hand at the slash fiction contest, but I want to make sure I can include the phrase “Even in spite of maniacal clowns.” I’m sure we all agree this should be one of the requirements for every entry.
Peanut Gallery
August 17th, 2012 at 2:56 pm [Reply]

@LP2004 (#45): If commodorejohn stops by, maybe we can start a fight over big-endian vs. little-endian.
Pamster
August 17th, 2012 at 2:58 pm [Reply]

@The Spectacular Spider-Brick (#90): RWO: Now if the chicken and egg were in bed, THAT would be a joke.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
August 17th, 2012 at 3:10 pm [Reply]

Mt – Today’s artwork inspired a theory as to Rusty’s morphing appearance.

Remember a few months ago, when the popular-in-his-community Canadian Mounty’s mother was clearly just clip art of a male character with a hair bun drawn on to make him a her?

Isn’t “Rusty” in panel one today just our square-jawed hero Mark Trail with a different color scheme? And could you explain all the hideously out-of-proportion Rusty’s from earlier this week similarly? For example, Monday’s strip is Mark Trails body with Rusty’s giant head pasted on the top.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
August 17th, 2012 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

@Calvin’s Cardboard Box (#102):

Don’t you hate it when you are posting at work and someone comes up to talk to you about something and you click “Post” so you can close the screen and then realize to your shame and regret that you got the apostrophe’s all wrong?
Chaze
August 17th, 2012 at 3:20 pm [Reply]

I know that Avery is a chubby, little fellow, but he appears to have put on at least 50 lbs during dinner. Assuming that JP does not exist in the Mark Trail/A3G space/time continuum, where everchanging body sizes are a regular occurrence caused by a poor art voodoo curse, we must ask ourselves if Bea hasn’t fed Avery something that will cause him to blow up like a balloon and burst. Or maybe Avery has a serious case of the munchies, man.
Marthas Rolling Pin
August 17th, 2012 at 3:24 pm [Reply]

@Mayor Dalton’s Prostate (#82): Oh you modest gland! Not telling us that Hizzoner has decided to take you along on his quest for higher office: http://www.daltonfornc.com/
Chaze
August 17th, 2012 at 3:26 pm [Reply]

@Calvin’s Cardboard Box (#103): I hate how my iPad’s spell and grammar check does things that are incorrect, such as place a period or comma outside a quote. Gets me as upset as a sportscaster who thinks that the plural of RBI is RBI.
commodorejohn
August 17th, 2012 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

@Peanut Gallery (#100): What’s to fight about? Little-endian is clearly superior. (If you want a reason, I’ll just point out that little-endian allows you to truncate a variable to a smaller size merely by loading a smaller-size value from the same address, whereas with big-endian you have to know the initial size of the variable and load from an offset. Q.E.D., bitches.)
tallyHO
August 17th, 2012 at 3:48 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#106):

Ribby or Risby or Ribbies?

RBI or RsBI or RBIs?

I doubt anyone says the middle one. But shouldn’t the middle one be the plural version?
Droopy Says
August 17th, 2012 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

@Calvin’s Cardboard Box (#102): My theory about Rusty’s appearance, and so much more in the Trailian universe, is that Doc conducts modern geneteic-engineering and cloning work with Eisenhower-era scientific equipment. No scanning-electron microscopes or Pentium-based desktop computers here; it’s strictly optical microscopes and vacuum-tube ENIACs in his cabin lab. Doc’s experiments may have flaws from his alternate-timeline equipment, but in future years Jack Elrod will be recognized as the inventor of the vacuum-punk genre.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
August 17th, 2012 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

@tallyHO (#108):

Just what I was thinking – it should be Runs Batted In and not Run Batted Ins or, worse, “RBI’s”.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
August 17th, 2012 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

@Droopy Says (#109):

Anything that gives Rusty’s origin a patina of respectability would be welcomed.
Artist formerly known as Ben
August 17th, 2012 at 4:14 pm [Reply]

@Esther Blodgett (#77): Whew. I thought at first it was about Tipper Gore corrupting Bart Simpon’s nerdy friend.
Chaze
August 17th, 2012 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

@Calvin’s Cardboard Box (#110): An RBI (singular) is an abbreviation for one run batted in. You are allowed to make an abbreviation a plural if you continue to use it as an abbreviation, ie one RBI, two RBIs. If you are not using the abbreviation, then the proper usage is Runs Batted In and the proper abbreviation for that is still RBIs.

These ESPN dunces, while trying to sound so brilliant by using RBI as a plural, will then say one team scored less runs than the other.
Bootsy
August 17th, 2012 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

@un malpaso (#99):

“I don’t want to get into politics, but I will even in spite of maniacal clowns!”
Calvin's Cardboard Box
August 17th, 2012 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#113):

Admittedly, I don’t watch as much SportsCenter as I used to before the internet rendered it obsolete, but I thought the common parlance was “And Cabrera breaks the tie with a two-RBI single in the bottom of the eighth!”.

Maybe it should be differentiated by whether they occured in a single at-bat. So you could hit a two-RBI double as part of a night in which you collect 4 RBIs?
Dr. Weird
August 17th, 2012 at 4:39 pm [Reply]

Well, I just had a nightmarish vision… where all comics were Funky Winkerbean!

The AZcentral site has some sort of weird bug… I checked FW first, then Curtis next, which was ALSO Funky Winkerbean! As was any other strip! The horror!
popamatic
August 17th, 2012 at 4:51 pm [Reply]

Kony 2012! Vote for Joseph Kony in this year’s election, early and often.
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

According to Dictionary.com , it is RBI for run batted in or runs batted in.

Or maybe we should just call them ribbies.
Col. Havoc
August 17th, 2012 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

@tallyHO (#108): Pretty controversial stuff. I’m just glad we have this thread in which to discuss it.
Col. Havoc
August 17th, 2012 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

Btw, the toilet paper should dispense UNDER the roll, not over.
Sequitur
August 17th, 2012 at 5:06 pm [Reply]

@Col. Havoc (#120): Especially if you have a cat.
commodorejohn
August 17th, 2012 at 5:13 pm [Reply]

@Droopy Says (#109): Now just a damn minute! I’ve been scheming up vacuumpunk works for years!

Granted, I’ve never gotten anywhere with them, but still!
Uncle Lumpy
August 17th, 2012 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

My 1963 vacuum-tube Fisher 800c blew a component in its power supply a couple weeks ago — probably the rectifier, which is the only solid-state component in the whole rig. Fixable, when I can find the time.
Peanut Gallery
August 17th, 2012 at 5:30 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#107): Ha! You’ve fallen into my trap and demonstrated that your intellect is truly Lilliputian!
Zerowolf
August 17th, 2012 at 5:51 pm [Reply]

Vote for George Clinton and Bootsy Collins: Funk it! Let’s Party 2012
Miss Othmar
August 17th, 2012 at 6:09 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): (also @Sequitur (#62) — Which is the current thread??): I’m both sad and angry — the strip was just brilliant, and the reason for it having to end is SO unfair! Of course, Parkinson’s is a cruel disease for anyone (and my own husband also has young-onset PD, so I have personal reasons for my anger). But somehow, it happening to a gifted artist seems doubly cruel. I’m lucky enough to have met Richard, and he’s as nice as you’d imagine the “father” of the Otterloops would be. I hope DBS works well for him. And selfishly, I hope that he finds another way to share his gifts with us.
Dale
August 17th, 2012 at 6:14 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#113):

If someone else has the runs and you are keeping score, a volumetric measure is appropriate and so is less.
If you have the problem, counting trips would make more sense and so would fewer.
Chaze
August 17th, 2012 at 6:19 pm [Reply]

@Calvin’s Cardboard Box (#115): I think you just nailed it. The use of “a” in your example refers to the single, which defines the usage of RBI as an adjective. So RBI is proper. Once it reverts back to a plural noun abbreviation, RBIs is the way to go. Your ear, if you generally use grammar well, will be your guide.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

@Artist formerly known as Ben (#52):
6C – yeah, Ladies’ night got a little out of hand there, didn’t it?
Chaze
August 17th, 2012 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

@Dale (#127): Bravo, Dale. Runs as volume is definitely quantified as less. Runs as units must be tallied as fewer. Professor Chaze will now go back to his usual Friday night activity of drinking massive quantities of beer. Prepare for rapid degradation of posts.
Chaze
August 17th, 2012 at 6:26 pm [Reply]

@Zerowolf (#125): Tear the roof off the sucker! Let’s all join in:

Give up the funk…gotta have that funk….
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 6:27 pm [Reply]

@Kauri (#63):
I love his video animation (for a game, sadly it wasn’t incorporated into the final product) called “Crazed Cows in Space.”
Miss you Dingo!
Cal
August 17th, 2012 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

@Downpuppy (#47): I dunno. I think a Madeleine Albright / Hillary Rodham Clinton / Margaret Thatcher three-way could be pretty intense…

“No government can love a child.” (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.” (Madeleine Albright)
“What Britain needs is an iron lady.” (Margaret Thatcher)

Goosebumps already!
Peanut Gallery
August 17th, 2012 at 6:38 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#107): The one time I had to write a program that translated between little-endian and big-endian systems, it really made my head hurt. Do you have to reverse the bits or just the bytes? What happens to shift functions? By the time I was done, I felt thoroughly Blefuscated.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 6:40 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#92):
I agree about making America scientifically literate, but, um, about that magic wand? ; )
I do believe you have won the CC irony award for 2012!
(Seriously, I do agree with you, but this was too tasty to ignore!)
All you CC-ers are great, and so smart it makes my head spin sometimes. Keep using your smarts for good works and the progression of badly-needed intelligence.
Nehemiah Scudder
August 17th, 2012 at 6:48 pm [Reply]

@Calico (#135): Sorry. At this point, I just have to type in RENUM, and hope for the best.
Nate
August 17th, 2012 at 6:50 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#107):Truncation and other claims of little-endian superiority (carries propagate forward in memory during addition, rotate-left is fast, etc.) aren’t worth much: most CPUs provide instructions for those operations on registers, and they’re rarely needed on memory.

Here’s some reasons for big endian superiority: comparisons on values stored in memory can be short-circuited while incrementing, bit-masks for multi-byte special function registers are implemented in code the same way they look on paper, network order is big-endian so network-heavy apps avoid overhead on big-endian CPUs, wide address-buses on off-chip peripherals are always ordered on the pin-out so memory mapping into a big-endian CPU doesn’t require tons of vias, math cores in FPGAs are always big-endian so its far more convenient for soft-processors to be big-endian as well, blah blah blah.

I bet you’re compiling Emacs on your little-endian x86 right now, you HEATHEN!
bourbon babe, unbuckled
August 17th, 2012 at 7:03 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): Such sad news. The fundraiser book is a delight; Miss Othmar and I were at the book-launch party, where we got many autographs, including Richard’s (who was so generous with his time and limited energy). He looked alarmingly frail, so this isn’t a surprise—but it still makes me sad, for him and for us. Here’s the WashPost story, in case anyone hasn’t linked to it yet.

@pastordan (#195):, @Der Schnärkïnätör (#209):, @commodorejohn (#210): Are you people actually getting me excited about a possible road trip to the upper Midwest next summer?

Oh, and congrats to the float-folk!
Nate
August 17th, 2012 at 7:09 pm [Reply]

@Peanut Gallery (#134): continuing my little-endian hate, consider porting crypto code with pre-generated tables or other bitmask/shift-heavy code from an x-bit little-endian CPU to a y-bit little-endian CPU.. At least going big-to-big, even with different widths, is trivial.

I think Arms with programmable endianess were developed solely to keep this argument alive for decades into the future…
Anonymous
August 17th, 2012 at 7:21 pm [Reply]

@Calico (#135): Hahaha! Good point. I should have called upon the Blue Fairy to do it instead:-).
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 7:22 pm [Reply]

@Anonymous (#140): Sorry. I really am getting better about this. The lengths of time between the booboos are getting longer.
Mark B.
August 17th, 2012 at 7:24 pm [Reply]

Is this the right thread for ‘Chris Christie so fat’ jokes?
Señor Tortilla
August 17th, 2012 at 7:42 pm [Reply]

Texas doesn’t allow hard liquor to be sold in supermarkets without applying for a liquor license, and then they’d have to abide by silly rules (restricted hours, no kids, etc.). But it DOES allow for super-sized liquor stores, which is never a bad thing.
Señor Tortilla
August 17th, 2012 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

That IS a shame Cul de Sac is dying. As for me, I am a conservative and read conservative blogs and news sites most days. I do not, however, watch FOX News, which doesn’t quite deserve the hate it gets. Yes, it’s biased and yes, there’s fear-mongering by the plenty, but ALL the news networks do that.
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

@Bootsy (#94): I like the way your head works. If the mice also won onstage, the rest of the ballet would be a heckuva lot more interesting and possibly a little shorter. I don’t see a downside here.
Chareth Cutestory
August 17th, 2012 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

“Look at the tyranny of party — at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty — a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes — and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are shouting rubbish about liberty, independence, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, honestly unconscious of the fantastic contradiction; and forgetting or ignoring that their fathers and the churches shouted the same blasphemies a generation earlier when they were closing their doors against the hunted slave, beating his handful of humane defenders with Bible texts and billies, and pocketing the insults and licking the shoes of his Southern master.”
Honey Badger, Does not give a shit
August 17th, 2012 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

@Señor Tortilla (#144): But only FOX makes you fear them.
pastordan
August 17th, 2012 at 8:34 pm [Reply]

@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#138): Excitement is unChristian, my dear girl. You have to long for the trip. Now, I understand that longing for anything in the Midwest–let alone the Midwest itself–seems a bit daft. But there it is.
Vince M
August 17th, 2012 at 8:40 pm [Reply]

@Sequitur (#41): When I was there for JazzFest, I was pleased to see New Orleans (all of LA?) selling liquor in drug stores. Medicinal purposes, don’t you know.
Calico
August 17th, 2012 at 8:41 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#141):
: )
Ed Dravecky
August 17th, 2012 at 8:47 pm [Reply]

Hey, queek! It’s otters that look like Benedict Cumberbatch!
Nehemiah Scudder
August 17th, 2012 at 8:48 pm [Reply]

IRT Cul de Sac, and Richard Thompson. I don’t think I’ve ever used the word before at CC, nor do I plan to again:

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Fuck.

// I do apologize. I’m not like this normally.
Vince M
August 17th, 2012 at 8:49 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): Aww man, this is the first I’ve heard of Mr. Thompson in a while – it’s the very definition of ‘Life is unfair.’ Cul De Sac, even in reruns, is a bright spot in my day, every day. I’ll read his collected works over and over, for the rest of my life, and get a lift every time.
pastordan
August 17th, 2012 at 8:54 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#152): Whoah, back up there, Nelly! Cul de Sac is coming to an end? Cul de Sac??!!

I was going to tell you all that your political opinions suck, but now I have more pressing concerns!
Jen
August 17th, 2012 at 8:54 pm [Reply]

@Bill Peschel (#34): As of June, supermarkets (and certain other retailers) in Washington state can carry liquor. Kind of weird walking into Walgreens and seeing an entire aisle taken up by it.
Ed Dravecky
August 17th, 2012 at 8:56 pm [Reply]

@Col. Havoc (#120): BLASPHEMY!
Vince M
August 17th, 2012 at 8:58 pm [Reply]

@Zerowolf (#125): Good ticket; covers the entire Funk base. Still, I’d have liked to have seen Dizzy Gillespie’s 1964 campaign get more traction.
Nehemiah Scudder
August 17th, 2012 at 9:00 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#152): Whoah, back up there, Nelly! Cul de Sac is coming to an end? Cul de Sac??!!

I was going to tell you all that your political opinions suck, but now I have more pressing concerns!

My political opinions do suck. So do yours. Richard Thompson, however, doth bestride this narrow world like a Colossus… fuck.
Peanut Gallery
August 17th, 2012 at 9:03 pm [Reply]

@Col. Havoc (#120): Jane, you ignorant slut.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
August 17th, 2012 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#152): My sentiments exactly.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
August 17th, 2012 at 9:07 pm [Reply]

@pastordan (#148): Of all the “unchristian” things that I do in my life, believe me, “excitement” is the least of my worries.

(And if one isn’t especially “Christian,” then what’s the appropriate term? “Unladylike” is not an option.)
Peanut Gallery
August 17th, 2012 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

@Nate (#139): Oh, I’m going to regret starting this, aren’t I…
The Ridger
August 17th, 2012 at 9:12 pm [Reply]

My political 2 cents
Vince M
August 17th, 2012 at 9:15 pm [Reply]

I don’t want to get into politics, but…
I’ve only gotten into the Facebook party/melee recently, as my friends were insisting I haaaad to! so it’s my first 4-year election cycle there, and I’d like to tell my ‘friends’ there that I like them, I really do, but if they could post a thought of their OWN on why they like their candidate of choice instead of putting up a LOL-pic that savages the other guy’s candidate and adding “Yep”, I might take their point of view SERIOUSLY. And that goes double for folks whose politics mirror mine! Rarrrr.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
August 17th, 2012 at 9:16 pm [Reply]

You know, if people are going to get riled up about politics and Fox News, and are saddened by the news about Richard Thompson, now might be an appropriate time to see how securely Josh’s liquor cabinet is locked.

Just sayin’.
Ukulele Ike
August 17th, 2012 at 9:20 pm [Reply]

Pat Paulsen for President, 2012! Even though he’s dead!

Campaign slogan: “I’ve upped my standards. Now, up yours.”
Droopy Says
August 17th, 2012 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

@Calvin’s Cardboard Box (#111): I think Rusty needs a thick coat of concrete more than a patina of respectability. The more I think about my theory, the more I like it. It does more than explain why we see all these giant, para-intelligent animals in LoFo; Doc has been mixing the DNA of normal animals with assorted hominid DNA (humans, Mark Trail, and at a guess, gorillas). But this theory not only explains the frequent changes in Rusty’s shape, but why the alleged adults in LoFo show so little concern for him. Doc’s DNA Xeroxer has gone haywire. It turns out one Rusty after another, each with its unique and unfortunate copying errors. Each hangs around a while, acts vaguely childlike, then vanishes. Aerial sheep-poachers attack Rusty? He falls down a well? Big deal, there’ll be a new one along in a few minutes. Trail would take him fishing, but face it, he’ll just have to do it all over again when the next one pops up. You just can’t develop a human attachment to a badly-done carbon copy of a child. Which when you think about it makes Rusty the ideal son for Trail.
pastordan
August 17th, 2012 at 9:26 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#158): What did Dan Rather used to say? Courage.
pastordan
August 17th, 2012 at 9:28 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#152): By the way: Comment. Of. The. Week.
Ukulele Ike
August 17th, 2012 at 9:28 pm [Reply]

@Islamorada Girl (#53): if tying Romney and Rylan to the top of an SUV and driving to Canada would cure Richard, I’d do it and damn the consequences.

If gutting Romney and Ryan like a couple of carp, removing their heads and tails, and tying them over the edge of the boat and trailing them behind in the wake as chum would cure Richard, I’d do it. I would like to see the tax returns first, though.
Liquor Cabinet o\' Josh
August 17th, 2012 at 9:30 pm [Reply]

@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#165): Back off! I remember what you did to me last time!
pastordan
August 17th, 2012 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#161): A Not-Christian? On the internet? O scandal!

I think the word you’re looking for is “illiberal.” Or whatever Scudder is describing himself as today. That works.
Vince M
August 17th, 2012 at 9:36 pm [Reply]

@Droopy Says (#167): I never thought of that, but Doc could be the Dr. Venture (nicknamed ‘Rusty’ – coincidence???) of the Great Outdoors. Rusty Trail DOES possess the same insularity from the outside world as Hank and Dean…
matt w
August 17th, 2012 at 10:11 pm [Reply]

@Horace Broon (#7): As a Yank who’s seen the Scottish Parliament, I think the most annoying side must be the front.
[Old Man] Muffaroo
August 17th, 2012 at 10:18 pm [Reply]

Cherry has been replaced in two panels by a Dinette Set drawing. Rusty has been replaced in one panel by Mark in a carrot wig. But who gives a fuck? Cul de Sac is throwing in the towel. FUCK PARKINSON’S DISEASE. Infect it with Rush Limbaugh and make it listen to Ann Coulter and bugger it with a tricky dick.

I’m still gone, for at least another day or two, so I’ll miss participating in the bash. Fuck vacations.
[Old Man] Muffaroo
August 17th, 2012 at 10:35 pm [Reply]

This is, of course, good news for McCain.
Zerowolf
August 17th, 2012 at 10:51 pm [Reply]

@Vince M (#157): He would have polled better had he taken Lena Horne as his running mate.
Zerowolf
August 17th, 2012 at 10:57 pm [Reply]

Cul de Sac is ending yet strips like Mark Trail continue ad nauseam. Is there no justice?
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 10:58 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#152): Thanks for saying what I was thinking.
Zerowolf
August 17th, 2012 at 11:01 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#131): Got to admit, “Shit. God damn. Get off your ass and jam.” makes one hell of a campaign slogan.
Poteet
August 17th, 2012 at 11:12 pm [Reply]

Apologies in advance to anyone who might consider the following to be major blasphemy. I’d like to think that someday in the future, in their special worlds which will continue onward even though we can’t see them, Calvin’s family and the Otterloops will just happen to vacation for a few days on the same beach and Calvin will, however briefly, meet Alice.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
August 17th, 2012 at 11:40 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#181): I love that idea! (Plus, Hobbes will get to meet Polyfill.)
Cindyinmaine
August 18th, 2012 at 12:48 am [Reply]

I think of this site as non-involved in politics, but I think Presidential slash fiction could possibly achieve world peace…
Droopy Says
August 18th, 2012 at 12:56 am [Reply]

Spider-Bland: I really hate seeing Spiderman in that posture. It’s like he’s inviting someone to fertilize his eggs. I realize that makes no biological sense, but this strip has already violated so many laws of ophysics and chemistry that it needs to move into the icky sciences now.

FU, W: So Nauseating Comicbook Guy likes to roleplay him some pedophilia?

Family Circus: Yeah, Jeffy, like you don’t draw flies with your perpetually gaping mouth and miasma of mental decay.

Pluggers: When I was growing up in southern California, I once heard another kid say “Cowabunga.” I won’t mention his name. He worked very hard to live it down and has since redeemed himself. The world is a better place for his actions. You can’t say the same of a Plugger.

Mary Mirthless: Yeah, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it, no matter what the coroner says about the strangely-trampled condition of the non-survivors.

Mary Mirthless, again: The blonde catches on fast, doesn’t she?

Jugs Parker: Quit teasing, Bea, you heartless bitch. You’ll no more kill them than you’d bed them.

Mock Trail: What’s the dumbest thing that can happen here? Cherry leaves with the photos, sees two strange men in a strange truck, and decides they’re the game warden and the sheriff? She shows them the pictures and they kidnap her? I’m cool with that if it means a day without looking at Rusty.
commodorejohn
August 18th, 2012 at 1:03 am [Reply]

Oh, and regards the election: my chief problem is that Florida schizophrenic Lee Mercer Jr. is not running this year, and it will therefore accomplish even less when I write in for him. Oh well, a man’s gotta vote his conscience, no matter what…
Lisa
August 18th, 2012 at 1:25 am [Reply]

For a long time any mention of Roosevelt made me gag a little, thanks to Dingo’s contribution. Now it just makes me sad and miss Dingo, a man I never even knew.
Poteet
August 18th, 2012 at 1:36 am [Reply]

JP — “Watch out for the wildlife, boys…it moves around at night! I don’t know why I’m bothering to say that, since the plan is for both of you to be dead by morning. So long, Shorty. I won’t miss those damn green glasses, that’s for sure.”
Comcis Fan
August 18th, 2012 at 1:39 am [Reply]

FW: I know Comicbook John is desperate for sex but please, no adult-baby fetish in Funky Winkerbean.
Poteet
August 18th, 2012 at 1:41 am [Reply]

MT — “You stay close to the house.” You don’t want him to stay inside the house where he’d be somewhat safe? Why Cherry, you want him to get found and whacked, don’t you? You’re human after all.
Raghead The Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist
August 18th, 2012 at 1:43 am [Reply]

Back during the Bush administration, specifically after the invasion of Iraq, I’d written several satirical playlets starring George W, with such names as “Birdbrain In The Bush”, “Blight and Bush-y Tailed”, and so on. But I’m older now and I realise that I was hopelessly stupid back then when I thought that the end of the Bush regime would mean any improvement. If at all, the Nobel Peace Prizident is even worse from the standpoint of someone like me who’s not an American. At least Bush had the courage to commit his nation openly to wars, rather than arming murderous terrorist gangs as proxies and using drone-murder as an instrument of foreign policy. I’m beginning to miss Bush!

As long as the US continues with its self-proclaimed role as the centre of the universe-cum-owner of the earth, and as long as it persists with its ludiicrous charade of a “democracy” of two identical parties, American elections are pointless except as entertainment. Bluntly put, whoever wins, everyone but the creme de la creme loses.

Back to the snarking…
Jocelyn Knockersbury
August 18th, 2012 at 8:46 am [Reply]

EXCUSE ME PLEASE BUT I NEED CLARIFICATION

ARE WE ALLOWED TO SAY “PENIS” IN THIS SLASHFIC

THANKS IN ADVANCE

END
Señor Tortilla
August 18th, 2012 at 10:10 am [Reply]

I’ll let my Conservative Pride Flag high: I like Rush Limbaugh, like conservative websites, hate Obama and the liberals. My Facebook is (mostly) conservative stuff, although I’ve taken things down: the “Can this goat get more fans than Barack Obama” was funny for a while, but then it started to get less clever and more mean and spiteful. It also had this anti-government bent, which is bad (to me).
Acilius
August 18th, 2012 at 10:48 am [Reply]

@Señor Tortilla (#144): This political cartoon by Jim Benton summarizes my view of cable TV news: http://thunderladsatlarge.tumblr.com/post/29691026132/danishprinciple-jimbenton-jimbenton-on
Acilius
August 18th, 2012 at 11:01 am [Reply]

@Raghead The Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist (#190): As a patriotic American, I wish I could disagree with you. I can say Bush junior never made me miss Clinton, and Clinton never made me miss Bush senior, so it’s unlikely Mr O will ever make me miss Bush junior. The worse each president gets, the more I blame his predecessor for making him possible.
Les of the Jungle Patrol
August 18th, 2012 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

@Jamoche (#51): Pfft, the Monster Raving Loony Party promised to tow the UK south to warmer weather. It turns out the Royal Navy’s boats are only half the size they would need to be to do it. Empty promises!
Zla'od
August 19th, 2012 at 8:31 am [Reply]

I don’t want to get into politics, but Deng Xiaoping’s “Three Represents” really are a seminal contribution to Marxist / Leninist / Mao Zedong thought.
Zla\'od
August 19th, 2012 at 8:33 am [Reply]

Esther Blodgett (#22):

Yep–twisted like a boar’s. Appropriate, no?

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