Comments on: Sunday Funnies: LOL-April 4

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:43:34 +0000

Kaputnik!

By: Mitch4

Mitch4 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:54:23 +0000

Bob Carlson — You may have missed my #15 with an explication of the “crackers” line. In there, “snide” was supposed to mean “counterfeit money”. It would indeed be crazy to give the payoff in counterfeit, but it would be quite sensible to give it in secret, don’t you agree?

By: bob carlson

bob carlson — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:40:51 +0000

Re: “Crackers to slip…”

The explanation I recall, seen sometime in the early 50s when MAD was still new, was that crackers meant crazy, a rozzer was a police detective, dropsy was a knock-out drug, and in snide meant in secret.

That makes sense to me.

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By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:30:48 +0000

mkilby (25) You’re right about the Smother’s Brothers and “cotten picking finger licking chicken plucker”. That was from a song “My Old Man” where they discuss the attributes of their purported fathers. Thanks for the memory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFVrtjUmz7c

By: mkilby

mkilby — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:32:18 +0000

As for Mike Peters’s “Biden” comic, didn’t the Smothers Brothers have a routine about a “cotten picking finger licking chicken plucker”?

By: Marshal

Marshal — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:46:32 +0000

Top 10 Joe Biden Gaffes
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895156_1894977,00.html
First one is the one Cidu Bill is referring to.

By: Harise

Harise — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:41:39 +0000

I totally missed the point of that first one, re plucky freaking ducks, and thought it was about what happened when Bush decided to read a book to school kids.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:19:34 +0000

Well, Bill, we’re not sure that Vice-President Biden didn’t notice the open mic or just didn’t care. He is his own man, so to speak.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:41:34 +0000

When the health care bill was signed a couple of weeks ago, Biden — not noticing the open mike — said to Obama “Mr. President, this is a big f****** deal.”

By: Naomi

Naomi — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:37:52 +0000

Andreas - I don’t know why Biden is involved, but try saying “fuzzy ducky’s fun day plucking flowers” fast out loud, and I think you’ll see the potential problem with reading it to young children (unless you are much better with tongue-twisters than I am.) Hint: variations on spoonerisms.