racial puppetry in right-wing comics

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so of course one of the many, many things conservative funnies love to hate on is affirmative action, the radical idea that a proportion of minorities should be represented in white-run institutions like academia, politics or workplaces paying more than minimum wage. but in strips by white conservatives and republicans often choose black characters to represent right wing talking points usually heard in real life coming from mayonnaise ass whiteys like scott mclellan and ann coulter. and yeah its clear why they do, so we dont need to discuss that, but im interested in how much of a trend its become. heres 3 examples-

http://images.ucomics.com/images/uclick/prc_icon180.gif
heres the star of "prickly city", a wack calvin & hobbes rip-off with a coyote instead of a tiger and a big-lipped black girl instead of a big-haired white kid

http://images.amuniversal.com/ups/features/pricklycity/samples/stantis_80.jpg
heres scott stantis, the creator of "prickly city", former editorial cartoonist in the late 90s responsible for cartoons like this
http://reason.com/9510/stantis.gif

remember in c&h how sometimes they would discuss philosophical issues while careening around detailed montana/grand canyon landscapes in calvin's wagon? stantis basically steals that every day, but with jokes like this
http://www.illinoisfamily.org/content/img/f22737/Prickly%20City.gif

now, mallard fillmore is just a duck. but bruce tinsley, the white man who draws it, frequently turns to black, asian, or latino characters to parrot republican talking points. for example, black people support racial profiling-
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT50910.jpg
you wont ever see a black democrat in mallard fillmore, unless its jesse jackson or al sharpton. liberals are white, frizzy-haired professors or balding ex-hippie drug casualties.
http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT40505.jpg

(kinda unrelated sidenote but these mallard fillmore strips come from the site jewishworldreview.com despite repeated use of hooknosed anti-semitic caricatures in the strip, like jon stewart and this tv exec

heres a picture of bruce tinsley
http://www.indianacartoonists.com/images/mallard_au.gif

the last one yall might not see too much cuz its not in newspapers or any of that, but as far as webcomics go its one of the biggest with republicans and gets passed around more email forwards than most lefty strips. as weak as the prickly city draughtmanship is (tho i actually like tinsleys art, as lazy and/or ugly as it sometimes is), chris muir's "day by day" is without a doubt one of the ugliest comic strips ive ever seen.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Cartoons/09-06-2005.gif

theres 4 characters, no backgrounds, 2 or 3 poses for each with different heads photoshopped on for each panel. the lead character is damon, a hip conservative software entreupenuer who resents that liberals think he should care about racism and poverty simply because he's black
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Cartoons/11-04-2002.gif

the others are a white guy who has the same glasses and cool dude hair as damon, his spicy redhead girlfriend, and the ditzy liberal woman seen here
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Cartoons/01-05-2003.gif
having a black protagonist means, much like prickly city, muir isnt afraid to take on organizations like the NAACP

also like prickly city, the style of the strip is ripped off entirely from another comic, this time doonesbury
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/cartoons/02-09-2003.gif

but muir is not really on trudeau's level as an artist, even on basic skills like perspective
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/cartoons/02-04-2003.gif

theres also some shitty software jokes i dont get

here's muir talking about damon's race in an interview with mensnewsdaily.com:

BC: Was your choice in having two women and two men as your main characters in â€œDay by Dayâ€? a deliberate device for you to address gender issues along with the battle of the sexes? Also, having characters in both their twenties and in their forties gives you a unique opportunity to explore intergenerational relationships. Was this also intentional on your part?

CM: Definitely a deliberate device, both generational and gender. You may note that Jan is extremely political and focused. Damon is the same, and a high IQ type. These characteristics steer them clear of typical generational issues-issues which, as a 45 year old man, I can never really do justice to; I can never be thought 'cool' by their generation. But, perhaps, I can relate to them as Americans, as people, as fellow citizens. Also note that Damon is an orphan, raised without close relatives. I am white. Damon is black. But we are both Americans.

BC: Damon, to me, is the star of your comic. He has the best punch lines and heâ€™s a wonderful foil for the non-reflective liberalism which surrounds him, but have you received criticism for making a black conservative the star of your series? What types of venomous responses have been thrown your way?

CM: There has been, in total, over 2000 comments concerning â€œDay by Dayâ€?, and only one negative comment on Damon. I am frequently asked if I am African-American (not to mention if I am a Christian). There is so much more that unites Americans than divides us.

so, these 3 comic strips use black folks as a mouthpiece for a white man's political views, opinions which a majority of black folks dont actually support. i usually disagree with charges of tokenism aimed at real life black conservatives, from colin powell to j.c. watts (the less said about condi rice/rod paige/alan keyes the better), and the white left bitching about 'house negroes' or 'uncle toms' is 100% stupid and racist. these are adults who have made their own political decisions. sometimes these decisions are then exploited by republicans seeking diversity in their party, but theyre still actual decisions. but now, this trend in comics seems alot more insidious to me, the invention of false black republicans in the absence of any truly popular real ones, and i havent really seen stantis, tinsley or muir get called out for it. is there any way to defend your opposition to the NAACP and affirmative action thru reliance on a fictional black spokesman for your ideals? would someone please interview these fuckers and ask them this?? can don weiner, roger adultry or a nairn (forget if hes a republican or just a batshit creationist) stand up for this?? i turn it over to yall now....

― _, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but certainly "Prickly City" rips off "Outland" more than C&H?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Wait, they gave the dude who draws "The Buckets" another strip? What the shit?

― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 26 September 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

the mallard fillmore dude also likes to make fun of asians -- he recently did a cartoon of the chinese prime minister that looked like charlie chan circa 1935.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 September 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/prc/2005/prc050918.gif
yeah theres some bloom county in there but cmon this is a direct c&h bite

― _, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alabamabound.org/images/Stantis.JPG
"i am a six year old black girl"

― _, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Damon is the same, and a high IQ type

i'd like to see the head measurements to prove it

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 26 September 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

i want a pic of chris muir!

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 26 September 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

also it's funny, goatee/glasses guy w/ the coffee (in the "whining liberals" strip) looks like he should be a liberal?

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 26 September 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

i would also like to discuss "state of the union"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 26 September 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.comics.com/creators/union/archive/images/union2005091356624.gif
what the fuck

― _, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

chinese premier hu jintao, mallard fillmore style:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/Fillmore_HuJintao-729116.jpg

hu jintao, in real life:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/HuJintao-759734.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 September 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

mallard fillmore creator bruce tinsley apologizes for the drawing: "ah.. me so solly!!"

― _, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

so is this "blackface"? is there a historical precedent for it?

― _, Monday, 26 September 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

heavy research here, very nice.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

ethan, didn't you used to rag on me for making fun of clarence thomas?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

no tad i "ragged" on you for calling him a house nigger and an uncle tom just because you disagreed with his politics

― _, Monday, 26 September 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm more offended by how shitty his drawing skills are.

― amon (eman), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

the puppetry i think is based, unconsciously, in the same logic of identity that underpins all the multi-culti stuff that these guys hate.

i think there's a masochistic tendency to wish that your enemies were all like you, that certian poltical fights didn't have to be done anymore, that (in this case) the now-inarguable history of black suffering could somehow be used toward their own notion of good, that it wasn't a permanent affront to their project.

(see also, liberals enamored of george soros [who has the benefit of being real i guess], ie a maybe vain hope that somewhere there is a billionaire capitalist who is not a scaife or a murdoch) (see also the west wing, where prez bartlett is a nobel laureate in economics & a new dealer, yeah right)

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

i just remembered that Oliver's dad in Bloom County was a republican, but never actually mouthed the talking points. In fact, Breathed once made a joke about how he was the only one.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

xpost geoff sort of OTM

i think there's a masochistic tendency to wish that your enemies were all like you, that certian poltical fights didn't have to be done anymore

i think this is a human thing, not merely restricted to any one pole of any one dimension along the broad political spectrum ... i have been thinking about that damon character for a minute now and the closest i can see it is sort of like the "good afghan" or "good iraqi" characters in a lot of right-wing cartoons, which are close to the "gunga din" stories people like to tell in support of the war effort ... "gunga din" is about 150 years old, right? and i certainly wouldn't call "gunga din" blackface ... more i guess an urge to write the apparent racial components out of political and social conflicts?

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Generic clip-art cartooning styles. Tendentious, unfunny punchlines aimed at a target audience that sees humor solely as a means to an end. Case studies in Not Getting It, but otherwise not worth the time it takes to read them.

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

wow i had never seen any of these before (aside from mallard filmore, obv)...that state of the union cartoon...i mean...its...wow.

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Wow, putting Jesse Jackson in a Klan robe is crossing the line a little, dontcha think? Doesn't seem much different than drawing a big-nosed rabbi with a swastika on his shawl.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

as barry brunner (where did he go?) likes to point out, that happens all the time in the foreign press

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Barry's around! Or else I keep stumbling across old posts of his or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

wow, i used to think mallard fillmore was as bad as it got, but prickly city is way worse. combining would-be C&H sweetness and awful obvious reactionary jokes is a lot more insidious than MF's plain old straightforward obnoxiousness. at least tinsley is fun to hate on.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

the state of the union one is the only legitmately funny one.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

funny "peculiar" or funny "oh god no"?

it doesn't do the weird race-foregrounding-yet-effacing ventreloquism ethan's talking about, at least not directly.. it just puppets everybody at hand, indiscriminately, i think.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

this is a quality exposé, more of this shit please

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 26 September 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alabamabound.org/images/Stantis.JPG

I wonder how many newspapers would offer me a job as a conservative op-ed writer on the spot if I walked in wearing a suit and bowtie. Six?

― a picture of a fat girl hugging Rick Perry, awesome (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 26 September 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking the exact same thing.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 26 September 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

Every once in a while you'll read something about conservative comedians and humorists, and why there aren't more of them, etc., and I think they're in the same boat as the cartoonists here, which is that they conceive of political humor in a much more explicitly and purposefully partisan way than liberal/lefty humorists do. That is, they see it primarily as a means to a political end, rather than as a way to make people laugh. I think it goes to the heart of what "political humor" is really about, which is telling jokes, getting giggles, and specifically getting giggles at the expense of people in power. Just like racial humor is about getting giggles at the expense of people who look different, political humor's traditional role has been to generate laughs by ridiculing the powerful. For example, the idea that the court jester was the only one in the kingdom allowed to make fun of the king and nobles (although I'm sure there were limits to that particular license).

But so, since part of liberal/lefty ideology is a sort of built-in suspicion of power and its corrupting influence, not to mention sanctimony of all kinds, lefty humorists tend to be bipartisan and ecumenical in their targets. See, e.g., Doonesbury's treatment of Clinton. You could argue, convincingly, that Trudeau is harder on Republicans, but he still made plenty of fun of the Clinton White House, in a way that something like Mallard Fillmore never will of Republicans. There are genuinely comedic right-leaning writers (P.J. O'Rourke, Christopher Buckley), who seem to care about jokes more than propping up some party line, but not very many. None of the cartoonists above would seem to qualify, since none of them -- from available evidence -- are funny. They're just regurgitating talk-radio talking points in cartoon balloons. However political Trudeau or Breathed might get, I never doubted that their primary objective was to entertain me. I get no sense of that from these guys.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 26 September 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

specifically getting giggles at the expense of people in power.

yeah, that's part of it. when much of humor is built around anti-authoritarianism, it doesn't work as well when employed by folks who're all about maintaining authority.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 September 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, to make it work, they and their audience have to engage in the pretense that they are standing up to authority themselves (specifically, the dweeby academics, wacky environmentalists and radical feminists who apparently exert great control over the world and oppress right-thinking people of common sense and good will). But it's a shaky pretense, and they know it, which gives a certain lack of conviction to the whole exercise.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 26 September 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

dude does poke "fun" at bush:

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Cartoons/09-14-2005.gif

for example.

i'm more curious to read the dynamics of the less-political of his cartoons, which seem to all be about gender and just slightly.. off. also he has gags about liberals being old. wtf! also there's this tight smug blogosphere shoutout deal to the whole thing, which only underlines the insularity. all the media gags, etc. -- a strange mirror of the "left" blogosphere too, the distrust of mainstream coverage, almost a certain camradre in some of the cartoons between the conservatives and liberals like ok the other side is completely deluded by still they have something in common by virtue of being 'net using blogreader etcs.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 26 September 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

on a related note - its not a right wing comic, but a sub-sub-sub-south park animated show in the UK that makes me feel uncomfortable in the way it trades off racial and cultural stereotypes under the guise of cutting-edge-humour. i'm not entirely convinced that the writers or indeed voice talent are of the cultures they are (poorly) imitating and, perhaps, lampooning, though if i am mistaken i apologise.

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/B/bromwell_high/bromwellhigh.html

seriously, the characterisations (both in terms of the writing and the voice acting) seem pretty unevolved and offensive.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 26 September 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

This seems obvious, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned here: it's easier for people not on the right to dismiss right-wing views presented by pompous white plutocrats or Southern rednecks, for instance, than it is if they are offered by cool-looking, intelligent young black men. This is reinforced if people assume that the cartoonist is a smart young black guy, and this is asserted to happen and I don't doubt it - because who other than black people create black protagonists, generally? There's also the desire not to merely preach to the converted, to try to reach out to the kind of audience that might not already be permanently right wing, the attempt to make the right seem cooler (thus old, balding liberals).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 September 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

alien puppets, clearly funnier.

― JKex (JKex), Monday, 26 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

That thread-starter was the most interesting reading of my week so far, just narrowly edging out Ben Marcus in Harpers! And then umm I'm not sure I have a complex response to it except to say that I think it's just a form of wish-fulfillment -- right-wing cartoonists, maybe already a little conflicted about the idea of conservative politics in an ostensibly "young" / "hip" (and thus implied liberal) field, creating the ultimates in people they'd like to see exist. E.g.: putting your thoughts in the mouth of a child is a long-running way for people with any set of ideas to make them seem ultra-real and common-sensical and gut-level. For one of those cartoonists, putting conservative opinions in the mouth of a "hip" young black man looks like a way of protecting the right wing's long imagination of itself as suffering and oppressed -- i.e., putting those opinions into one of few milieus where it's sometimes out of place; on the other hand, it's also a way for a conservative white guy who really does think of himself as hip and oppressed ("I was a cartoonist in college but everyone on campus was so liberal") to give himself an avatar that communicates to everyone how hip and modern he otherwise thinks he is. Comics like these can actually give a pretty good sense of whose views are actually kind of vital and/or genuinely set up against something -- liberal cartoons right now have a wide range of public government figures to turn on, whereas cartoons like these have to turn to strawmen (one of them even admits it's a strawman, with the imaginary Air America viewer!) or figures like Jesse Jackson (well past prime and not exactly a giant threatening force in this country).

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have anything to add to this thread beyond thinking that the original thread question should be worked into an op-ed essay immediately.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Ha, actually, me with conservatives and Jesse Jackson is kind of like E's "I can't imagine why anyone would hate Puff Daddy except if they were racist" -- some conservatives can get creepily vehement about Jesse, years after he's done anything of particular significance, and despite the fact that the dude basically just talks a little, and has at no point held any office that exercises any real power over the country. Elements of the right have just always been super-irritated by the mere fact of hearing him even say stuff about various issues -- a lot of which may be down to pulpit envy, but still.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, seriously, Dan! Actually, you know how Slate does those slide-show pieces? Seriously, seriously: pitch them!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

What's telling about the dishonesty of this is that knee-jerk liberalism isn't a difficult target. A writer like O'Rourke or Peter Bagge (when he was good, which might be a minority of his output) is capable of poking holes in unreflective right-on-ism without creating right-on puppets of their own to protect themselves.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

on a similar topic:

Liberality for All : "FINALLY, A CONSERVATIVE COMIC BOOK!"

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I agree with everybody who says that the original post is an excellent, incisive, fucking compelling read

also, the observation that comedy is historically about taking down the king-of-the-mountain, not propping up the power structure, is OTM, which is why these cartoons seem kinda alternate-universe: even dead-baby/retard jokes have as their actual target the power structure ("you musn't think this/laugh at this, it's wrong to do so"), not the ostensible butts of the jokes. Righty cartoonists rely on a steady diet of kick-'em-while-they're-down - grim, joyless stuff

(nb not all rightist humor is like this of course, but the cartoonists do seem of one mine)

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

duhh MIND not mine

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20050918/lprc050919.gif

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 26 September 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I agree with everybody who says that the original post is an excellent, incisive, fucking compelling read

Damn straight.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't buy the whole "the right is less funny than the left" thing, that I saw, up there. Although I do agree that anti-authoritarian jokes are generally funnier than anything else

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

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incredibly bad ass art tho, slocki!

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

Whoa!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

god forbid someone make an off-topic post on ilx.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

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― viborgu, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Cartoon characters are suppose to be exaggerations of real life people. When do those exagerations of a charcter of a minority race become offensive? Is it related to historical context, and if so how is that context let go?

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that "Ape Sex" thing by Hernandez is so douchey!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Kiko's just a wanna-be Terry.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

This may or may not fit the thread title.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

holy shit

― _, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

haha omg inside front cover dudes!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

i know!!!!! at first i thought it said BANANER OF DEMOCRACY

― _, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

"Yes, Anna. Thank God! And thanks to President Reagan and our freedom-loving neighbors!"

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

ned where did you find this?? i am going to mention it in my article or whatever that i still need to write about this

― _, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Hahahah. I found it in a VERY familiar place...

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I love it!
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― _, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

back cover: our soldiers being welcomed as liberators, with flowers and infants!

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

infants?

― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

That second Jack Chick panel is killing me.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

"All our countries are the communist hit list"

*guffaw*

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― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

That full page Liberality is great. "God taken off our money!" A big penny with "In Peace We Trust!" No Christian God we believed in would EVER be a God of Peace!

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one year passes...

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They've put out three more issues of that book, but who knows whether there's anything as entertaining as that bit.

― kingfish, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

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two years pass...

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― g++ (gbx), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

should've been here for the bottleopener thread, could've made some real quality insight

― g++ (gbx), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:31 (fourteen years ago)

SHABOY B O-RIZZY, WHATUP TO BEN STIZZY

― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

shhhhh. quiet man. we're listenin'.

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://forums.somethingawful.com/attachment.php?postid=391526489

yes, the guy in the last panel is black.

― little mushroom person (abanana), Thursday, 7 July 2011 01:34 (fourteen years ago)

IS THAT MY MANATEE!?!?

― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 July 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)

Try finding cats in positions that look as if they have an 'invisible object'. Put a caption describing what is the 'invisible object'. A good (existing) example would be "invisible bike."

― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 July 2011 00:03 (fourteen years ago)

lol wrong thread sorry

― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 July 2011 00:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/128347380320000000conservativecat.jpg

― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 8 July 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

IS THAT MY MAN HANNITY!?!?

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 05:45 (fourteen years ago)

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