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Jeanette X

Jul 14th, 2003, 11:21 AM

I miss Bloom County. :(
http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444hmf/accessories/pics/opus-sitting0.gif
I think Berke Breathed is doing children's books now.

mburbank

Jul 14th, 2003, 11:27 AM

Bloom county was good.

FartinMowler

Jul 14th, 2003, 11:32 AM

http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/billthecat.gif

Miss Modular

Jul 14th, 2003, 12:14 PM

It's Mallard Fillmore, the reactionaries' favorite comic strip.

Zero Signal

Jul 14th, 2003, 12:45 PM

BILL THE CAT FOR PRESIDENT :tear

mburbank

Jul 14th, 2003, 01:07 PM

Mod. Yeah, I know. It just hoovers. A complete insult to the art form that was once the newpaper strip. Rhetoric first, humor an afterthought and artistic style more a delivery system than a medium.

mburbank

Jul 14th, 2003, 02:12 PM

And for those of you wondering if Vinth can like anythjing before he's told to, this Mallard Fillmore cartoon appears on the Boortz website today.

Yes, Vinth, I know, I'm a Jew.

CaptainBubba

Jul 14th, 2003, 02:47 PM

Bloom County was the first humor comic book I ever read as a kid.

I didn't get half the jokes at the time, but still thought it was funny. I always wondered what Opus' voice would sound like.

And I have to say I agree with the theme of the comic posted by Vince/Boortz.

mburbank

Jul 14th, 2003, 02:53 PM

I'm sure you do. But try this test. Imagine yourself as a child reading it. Would you still think it was funny, even if you didn't get it, like Bloom County?

The pleasure and humor (if one can call it that) which comes from 'Mallard Fillmore' is exclusively recognition humor. A person looks at it thinks; "Say, that's exactly what I think. That's showing them."

It's the ultimate nod to recognition humor that Vinth found it on Boortz and I'd wager linked the image directlty from there.

Jeanette X

Jul 14th, 2003, 03:04 PM

There was an animated Christmas special for Bloom County called "A Wish For Wings That Work". It was great. They eventually turned into a children's storybook. :)

Bennett

Jul 14th, 2003, 03:15 PM

The part I find amusing, is that the guy with glasses reminds of Vince.

punkgrrrlie10

Jul 14th, 2003, 09:26 PM

I think it's ironic that the same thing can be said about big corporations.

Anonymous

Jul 14th, 2003, 09:36 PM

since when was whining for tax cuts a staple action of democrats?

Zero Signal

Jul 14th, 2003, 11:15 PM

since when was whining for tax cuts a staple action of democrats?
When it suits Vinth's whim.

HickMan

Jul 14th, 2003, 11:33 PM

That comic wasn't funny. :(

pjalne

Jul 15th, 2003, 06:08 AM

There was an animated Christmas special for Bloom County called "A Wish For Wings That Work". It was great. They eventually turned into a children's storybook. :)

I only got to see half of it when it aired, and now it's not on DVD. It makes me sad.

VinceZeb

Jul 15th, 2003, 07:55 AM

I could see why liberals wouldn't find that strip funny. It isn't witty or high brow or anything like that. It just tells the truth.

Dole

Jul 15th, 2003, 08:11 AM

'I could see why liberals wouldn't find that strip funny. It isn't witty' -you said it dude.

mburbank

Jul 15th, 2003, 09:43 AM

"It just tells the truth."
Truth and funny are not the same thing. When Homer Simpson said "It's so funny because it's so true", the joke was that sort of shit ISN'T funny.

And in this case, it isn't TRUE either, it's an opinion the author and you confuse (as you do all of your opinions) with Truth. It's recognition humor, it's lower than a pun, and in this particular case it's just another pre digested Boortz nugget falling out of your slack, drooly chow hole.

Now you call me a Jew and maybe everyone will be dazzled by how hysterical that truth is and forget how stupid you are. Probably not, though.

Anonymous

Jul 15th, 2003, 10:24 AM

Is the whole purpose of the strip to say that democrats are bad at math, or is it supposed to also imply that they whine about tax cuts?

Or, is it just supposed to say that democrats are stupid?

mburbank

Jul 15th, 2003, 10:27 AM

I think it's supposed to say that the teachers union is a bad thing and the teachers in ikt are bad teachers.

And us Liberals dre whining about getting money from the tax cut, not the tax cut itself. Especially us poor Liberals.

It's a really good comic. Boortz put it on his page.

VinceZeb

Jul 15th, 2003, 10:33 AM

It's supposed to signify that people are whining about not getting tax rebates and cuts when they don't pay taxes.

I have always wanted to post some fillmore on here, but it was the one that was on the net i found in such short notice. I know it isnt Boondocks or Tom Tommorow, but i perfer things that aren't full of shit.

mburbank

Jul 15th, 2003, 11:11 AM

Then how do you live with yourself?

Zero Signal

Jul 15th, 2003, 11:57 AM

Then how do you live with yourself?

http://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/15096/300.jpg

Protoclown

Jul 15th, 2003, 12:58 PM

:lol

Anonymous

Jul 15th, 2003, 03:59 PM

So, uh, what adult doesn't pay taxes, again? How can you not?

CaptainBubba

Jul 15th, 2003, 05:06 PM

To clarify: I agree with the comic up until the last frame, primarilly because i don't have any clue what the last one is suggesting or talking about.

Chojin: I think the man in the comic paying "no taxes" was used to simply point out the ilogical idea of recieving a large tax cut from little, or in this exageratted case no, taxes.

Aren't people in poverty exempted from income tax though? (I really have no clue)

VinceZeb

Jul 15th, 2003, 10:00 PM

People who make under a certain amount per year pay no taxes... but that is who the news gets to talk about how they "deserve" or "need" tax cuts.

mburbank

Jul 16th, 2003, 10:11 AM

Now which is the peoples who are the news gets to talk about now? I is guessing it was a teacher who are in the teachers union who failed to be teaching Vinth how to get to have the intelligent to work up a sentence.

VinceZeb

Jul 16th, 2003, 10:17 AM

Whatever you say, Toucan Sam.

Bennett

Jul 16th, 2003, 10:30 AM

... but that is who the news gets to talk about how they "deserve" or "need" tax cuts.

Actually Vince, if you're saying what I think you are (it is hard to tell sometimes, you know), I think when they talk about who deserves or needs tax cuts, "they" are mostly talking about middle class families and people of that ilk. I don't think anyone, especially the news would talk about people who don't pay taxes needing tax cuts.

mburbank

Jul 16th, 2003, 10:36 AM

While that was marginally more creative than your usual pap, You are as predictable as spit in the mouth of Pavlov's Dog.

If I post a fake Vinth Jew baiting piece of idiocy, you don't. If I don't you do.

While making you dance is interesting, I have to wish you were a better dancer.

VinceZeb

Jul 16th, 2003, 10:39 AM

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/outlook/1985623

mburbank

Jul 16th, 2003, 11:34 AM

Good point, Dog spit. That womans a real bag of shit, looking for a handout like that. Her point about any money she got going back into the economy is just crap too, because poor peoples money is all dirty. It seemed to me in the article that she spoke of her taxable income, as in the income she pays taxes on.