Comic for Friday, March 24th, 2006

Posted: 7:13 am, Friday, March 24th

To 2.0's mom - I was going to be longer in my answer the other day when you complimented Jen's outfit, but I didn't want to foreshadow today's punchline at all. Anyway, Jen's get-up from earlier in the week is from last November's Lucky. The sweater is from Club Monaco, and the silk charmeuse top is from Marie Marie. When I'm pulling in Penny-Arcade numbers, I fully intend on charging for this advertising, Marie and Club, so don't get too accustomed to this treatment.

Hating the Yankees can be good for business. And, it goes without saying, the soul. A little article about the dude that brought us the Yankee Hater garb that Schil among other popularized. The Goat Fuckers are bringing him to court, becuase they're suck-ass suckers. My favorite line from the article:

"Plus, how many times in life do you actually get to play against a team that you hate so much? Who would imagine that [he] would ever go face-to-face with the beast? Well, I am doing that right now."

"The beast." That's great. I'm sure he meant it to be capitalized, too. Awesome.

I forget if I've mentioned it here, but are we all acquainted with Snakes on a Plane? Here's a primer. My favorite line from *this* article (welcome to today's edition of If Bullfrog Wrote It):

The audio bit uses a Jackson sound-alike shouting, "I want these mother------- snakes off the mother------- plane!" Soon, the growing legion of fans added their voices as they demanded that that phrase also appear in the movie.

I love that it was changed because of popular Internet demand. I wished the government worked that way.

They found an old bomb shelter under the Brooklyn Bridge the other day. I could've sworn we knew about these, but this one seems to have gone completely unnoticed since the Fifties. Awesome.

Great article from the Phat Phree (which is gaining in popularity lately, but I have to give props to Stacked for being the first mention I ever saw of it) that name checks my two favorite Price is Right games.

Kind of a kindred spirit of that article - you have to want to see it, though - in yesterday's Comics Curmudgeon. Check out the bottom half about They'll Do It Every Time. I love Josh's analysis of how the entire comic is based on an almost Seinfeld-ian overreaction to life's little annoyances (without being funny, like Seinfeld was).

Is it just me, or does this woman look like a Barbie doll with no pants on?

Some random baseball stats - I evidently like our outfield.

I'll leave you for the weekend with this rant from Will Durst.

I don't know about you guys, but I am so sick and tired of these lying, thieving, holier-than-thou, right-wing, cruel, crude, rude, gauche, coarse, crass, cocky, corrupt, dishonest, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, swaggering, lawyer shooting, bullhorn shouting, infrastructure destroying, hysterical, history defying, finger- pointing, puppy stomping, roommate appointing, pretzel choking, collateral damaging, aspersion casting, wedding party bombing, clear cutting, torturing, jobs outsourcing, torture outsourcing, "so-called" compassionate-conservative, women's rights eradicating, Medicare cutting, uncouth, spiteful, boorish, vengeful, noxious, homophobic, xenophobic, xylophonic, racist, sexist, ageist, fascist, cashist, audaciously stupid, brazenly selfish, lethally ignorant, journalist purchasing, genocide ignoring, corporation kissing, poverty inducing, crooked, coercive, autocratic, primitive, uppity, high-handed, domineering, arrogant, inhuman, inhumane, insolent, know-it-all, snotty, pompous, contemptuous, supercilious, gutless, spineless,
shameless, avaricious, poisonous, imperious, merciless, graceless, tactless, brutish, brutal, Karl Roving, backward thinking, persistent vegetative state grandstanding, nuclear option threatening, evolution denying, irony deprived, depraved, insincere, conceited, perverted, pre-emptory invading of a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, 35-day-vacation taking, bribe soliciting, incapable, inbred, hellish, proud for no apparent reason, smarty pants, loudmouth, bullying, swell-headed, ethnic cleansing, ethics-eluding, domestic spying, medical marijuana-busting, kick-backing, Halliburtoning, New Deal disintegrating, narcissistic, undiplomatic, blustering, malevolent, demonizing, baby seal-clubbing, Duke Cunninghamming, hectoring, verbally flatulent, pro-bad- anti-good, Moslem-baiting, photo-op arranging, hurricane disregarding, oil company hugging, judge packing, science disputing, faith based mathematics advocating, armament selling, nonsense spewing, education ravaging, whiny, unscrupulous, greedy exponential factor fifteen, fraudulent, CIA outing, redistricting, anybody who disagrees with them slandering, fact twisting, ally alienating, betraying, god and flag waving, scare mongering, Cindy Sheehan libeling, phony question asking, just won't get off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling, two- faced, inept, callous, menacing, your hand under a rock- the maggoty remains of a marsupial, oppressive, vulgar, antagonistic, brush clearing suck- up, showboating, tyrannizing, peace hating, water and air and ground and media polluting which is pretty much all the polluting you can get, deadly, illegal, pernicious, lethal, haughty, venomous, virulent, ineffectual, mephitic, egotistic, bloodthirsty, incompetent, hypocritical, did I say evil, I'm not sure if I said evil, because I want to make sure I say evil… EVIL, cretinous, fool, toad, buttwipe, lizardstick, cowardly, lackey imperialistic tool slime buckets in the Bush Administration that I could just spit.

Impeachment? Hell no. Impalement. Upon the sharp and righteous sword of the people's justice.

Really, not much to say after that.

Actually, one thing: Girl who shrieked through the entire first half (so far) of the Gonzaga-UCLA game. I've never hated anyone whose face I've never even seen as much as you. You absolutely suck.

bullfrog

Someone in the Comics Curmudgeon forum pointed out that today's Garfield, while not funny, is really kind of freaky in Spanish. I agree.

http://www.ucomics.com/espanol/garfieldespanol /

Yeah, I don't get Garfield. How is it funny?

It's funny if you take out Garfield's thought bubbles (as previously linked):

http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopi c.php?t=4997&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Actually, the whole thing was a cynical exercise in marketing, not meant to be as much funny as completely inoffensive.

http://www.slate.com/id/2102299/

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46644

Brilliant yet again, Onion.

i just wanted to let you know that i really liked this comic! keep up the good work! :)