Postby Rspaight » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:09 pm
You know, there probably *is* a funny joke somewhere in that strip -- it's just that Tinsley is too tone-deaf to find it. It's exactly what czeskleba said: it's just conservative talking points accompanied by a slightly altered picture of Daffy Duck. He makes no effort to find a unique perspective or memorable twist, to actually make the stuff funny. It would be like a "liberal" comic strip featuring a walrus that just said, "You know, Bush really screwed up in Iraq! Isn't that something?"
It sort of reminds me of an old joke. A guy walks into a bar. There's a group of regulars in the corner laughing, so the guy goes to see what's up.
"Thirty-two!" one of the regulars says, and the rest chuckle appreciatively.
"Sixteen!" another says to loud guffaws.
"What's going on?" the new guy asks, confused.
"We've been coming to this bar for twenty years," says one of the regulars. "We've all told the same jokes so many times, we just started giving them numbers. It's quicker that way. Go on, try it."
The new guy hesitates as the regulars look at him expectantly. "Um... forty-seven?"
Everyone falls off their barstools, convulsing with hysterical laughter, clutching their sides, tears streaming down their faces. "Oh, man..." one says after recovering. "We'd never heard that one before."
That's Mallard Fillmore.
Ryan
RQOTW: "I'll make sure that our future is defined not by the letters ACLU, but by the letters USA." -- Mitt Romney
