Comments on: Quasi

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:39:28 +0000

Mark M & mitch4 - Wouldn’t Quasimodo be grandfathered in being a character who appeared in 1831 - way before people cared about making fun of people with disabilities.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:19:42 +0000

Mark M, your question makes me realize I don’t know what the condition people call “hunchback” really is , or even if it names a single ailment. If it’s something like rheumatoid arthritis, maybe there’s a genetic component or predisposition, but probably not enough to say “genetically deformed”.

But that doesn’t matter anyway, if I follow your implied argument — it’s not so much the genetics as the “not from their own chosen behavior” factor.

And to start on an answer, what I think we see here is merely “comics about” people with a particular condition — but not comics ridiculing or demeaning them. And something like that ought to be the criterion, don’t you think?

By: Mark M

Mark M — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:29:20 +0000

Are comics about the genetically deformed acceptable, while using “retarded” and “lame” (as per a previous discussion) offensive?

By: Powers

Powers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:41:32 +0000

Okay, pseudo-alliteration. I’m sure there’s a relationship.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:27:47 +0000

The first time I heard the phrase “hump day” was four years ago when I accompanied my son town open house for a university’s engineering program. We were told (warned) that engineering students should room with other engineering students because while hump day for everybody else was Wednesday, hump day for engineers was Friday.

By: Judge Mental

Judge Mental — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:03:06 +0000

Quasimodo was willing to kidnap a beautiful women (Esmeralda) for the specific purpose of bringing her to Frollo. If he is willing to do the same for Bung, wouldn’t that indeed make him the *ultimate* wingman per felix’s definition? ( sure he did get caught and then he did try keep her for himself… )

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:31:44 +0000

“Punxsutawney” and “Phil” aren’t alliterative, even if they look like it.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:27:25 +0000

Some references for Hump Day

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hump_day
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hump%20day

(I didn’t know the term until I Googled. These were the first two hits)

I think the point is that bad things happen to Quasi every Wednesday, the same way they happen to Garfield every Monday.

By: Detcord

Detcord — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:09:10 +0000

Powers (6)

My bad. Am sad.

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:08:40 +0000

When I saw this comic I knew what the authors were implying wingman to be - just what Arthur and others stated. I also knew that a wingman really was what felixthecat said. I have to agree with mitch4 that a lot of humor goes along the lines of popular conception - even if that conception is wrong. This is how words change. There is nothing anyone can do to stop it.