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Postby lukpac » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:47 am

I can't say it's just the subject matter either, as his jabs at Bush really aren't very funny either.

And he seems to have an unhealthy obsession with Ted Kennedy, who really isn't in the news much these days...
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Postby Patrick M » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:23 pm

...anyone else with a big nose.

Sorry Ryan.

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Postby krabapple » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:47 pm

Rob P wrote:Mallard freakin' Fillmore: it's like the 80s never died. The Washington Post used to print that piece of substitute toilet paper in the funnies/OpEd section adjacent to Doonesbury. I guess they must still run it.


if they do, it's not next to Doonesbury. I rea dthat every day in the WP and never see that Mallard crap. (and Doonesbury's been *really good* fro awhile now with the whole BD/disabled vet story)
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Postby krabapple » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:54 pm

lukpac wrote:
Tinsley created Mallard for what he saw as the conservative underdog. The strip is for "the average person out there: the forgotten American taxpayer who's sick of the liberal media and cultural establishments that act like he or she doesn't exist," he says.


So, I guess that doesn't include the ~50% of voters in 2004 who didn't vote for Bush.

My memo to Tinsley: fuck you *and* your fans, jagoff.
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Postby Rspaight » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:33 pm

The strip is for "the average person out there: the forgotten American taxpayer who's sick of the liberal media and cultural establishments that act like he or she doesn't exist," he says.


"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."

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Postby Rob P » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:53 pm

krabapple wrote:if they do, it's not next to Doonesbury. I rea dthat every day in the WP and never see that Mallard crap. (and Doonesbury's been *really good* fro awhile now with the whole BD/disabled vet story)


Fortunately then, they must have canceled it at some point. I remember reading it in the WP when I was at college, and we were close enough to the DC area to get deliveries. I speculate that at some point Post readers objected with enough furor to get it out of the paper entirely.

Mallard Fillmore seems to shade its ideology with a populist "John Q. Businessowner" conservative bent, which renders it inappropriate for our blue blood conservative Richmond Times-Dispatch (a.k.a. the Times-Disgrace). Otherwise, I would have seen it in there years ago. It's like comparing John Warner and Tom DeLay: both Republicans, both annoying, but they couldn't be more different from each other.

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Postby lukpac » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:51 am

[insert rimshot here]

And that center panel makes absolutely no sense other than to set up the gotcha in the third panel.

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Postby MK » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:57 pm

Apparently, he can't take a joke, much less write one. Anyone read Jon Stewart's "America" book? Tinsley got pissed off at the blatant parody of his strip. Apparently, Stewart "tried to deceive people into thinking it was a real one." Yeah, just as he fooled everyone with that Peanuts cartoon printed on the preceding page, you know, the one where Lucy tells Pig-Pen "You're looking a little dirty there, comrade!" [with Pig-Pen reading a "Socialist Worker" newspaper].

Oooh, that Stewart, what a master deceptionist!

http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mal ... 070505.asp

BTW, nice Jewish caricature. :? Well, Jewish World Review doesn't mind...

(I'd attach pictures of those Peanuts and Mallard Fillmore parodies, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.)
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Postby lukpac » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:14 pm

If you e-mail them to me I can post them.
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Postby lukpac » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:15 pm

Heh.

http://publicbrewery.blogspot.com/2005/ ... ewart.html

Mallard: Liberals want to tie the hands of industry with more environmental regulation. Why must we punish our most productive citizens with an income tax? Oops! I forgot to tell a joke!


*That* actually has me laughing.
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Postby lukpac » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:25 pm

"I know because it is impossible for a tape to hold the compression levels of these treble boosted MFSL's like Something/Anything. The metal particulate on the tape would shatter and all you'd hear is distortion if even that." - VD

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Postby Rspaight » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:35 pm

I can scan 'em from the book (which I very highly recommend, especially since the hardback is now available on the bargain table).

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Postby lukpac » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:38 pm

From MK:

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:48 am

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Tinsley can't even pretend to care about the visual aspect of his strip, can he?