Comments on: LOL-November 10

By: FadedC

FadedC — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:08:36 +0000

Todd,

George Bush if often portrayed as sort of the slacker/fratboy type who you could imagine having a beer with. So the pile of beer cans seems apropriate. I imagine if they had been making fun of Clinton it would have looked like more of a sex party then a frat party.

Depending on your political leanings you could probably make a similar but less racially charged joke about any politician taking office from the other party. I think most would agree though that the mess left over this time is a bit bigger then usual.

By: DonBoy

DonBoy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:56:31 +0000

From the New Yorker caption contest, along the lines of the Existentialist Hearings:

http://contest.newyorker.com/CaptionContest.aspx?id=37

By: FlyingFish

FlyingFish — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:43:26 +0000

Mark: He was playing the old “make you look” joke, but she in fact DID see something while looking up (the ceiling needed a new coat of paint), so his prank backfired.

By: Mark Jones

Mark Jones — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:01:34 +0000

Ok, the Arlo strip is a CIDU for me.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:06:42 +0000

The Obama-Uncle Sam cartoon has a definate racist but who is being the racist? The lefty cartoonist or the nation?

By: DSkinner

DSkinner — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:59:49 +0000

The Ob-ma one is obviously racist!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:43:25 +0000

Is the baseball one referring to the 3 Strikes law? He struck out, and taking someone hostage isn’t going to make the situation any better?

By: todd

todd — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:11:16 +0000

Are they saying that George never cleaned up Bill’s mess? ‘Cause leaving a pile of beer cans and bottles doesn’t seem like George’s style to me, but it does seem like Bill’s. It is typically Texan, but the Bush’s are more Ewing than, well, my family.

I do understand the joke is that he’s cleaning up George’s mess, I just find the figurative portrayal of that mess to be a miss.

By: Cedar

Cedar — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:18:18 +0000

Kaitlyn–I agree. I’ve always really liked the puns in F&E, maybe because they’re usually so rapid fire, I don’t have time to think about them before they’re revealed.

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:14:04 +0000

What’s funny about this F&E is the other guy’s worry. Usually, he just plays straight man.

I used to read it every day when I got the paper, but I haven’t picked it up again. I don’t like puns usually, and this comic is all puns, and I love it. Go figure.