Doonesbury made me laugh today

[Stella_Omega]

And here it is;

http://assets.amuniversal.com/753040605dc00130184c001dd8b71c47

I like to think most of the guys here get the joke cause I know how awesome most of us are

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

*chuckles*

 

[sr71plt]

The point I got was that he was just making the cartoon even better for the guys. (Surely you don't buy the amended cartoon as more woman friendly.)

 

[JackLuis]

The point I got was that he was just making the cartoon even better for the guys. (Surely you don't buy the amended cartoon as more woman friendly.)

Whizzzz

 

[3113]

The point I got was that he was just making the cartoon even better for the guys. (Surely you don't buy the amended cartoon as more woman friendly.)

Perhaps Trudeau was indeed doing that, but I think it very apt for the AH. How many times have we had new male writers asking, "Why aren't female readers interested in my story? There are girls in it..."

 

[NekoParks]

And here it is;

http://assets.amuniversal.com/753040605dc00130184c001dd8b71c47

I like to think most of the guys here get the joke cause I know how awesome most of us are

KO Love it. Thanks, Stella, for the laugh...

 

[slyc_willie]

Oh, how typically male. Blood, guts, gore, an expected storyline, and to be more "relevant" he tosses in a bunch of half-naked women he has to save. Sheesh. Why can't these guys ever learn to just--

What?

Oh, right. I'm a guy.

Never mind.

 

[JackLuis]

"Everything is better with Tits!"​

It's in the book. *nods*

 

[NekoParks]

"Everything is better with Tits!"​

It's in the book. *nods*

This sounds like something Joe Bob Briggs would say...

http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/joebobbriggs.JPG

 

[slyc_willie]

This sounds like something Joe Bob Briggs would say...

http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/joebobbriggs.JPG

God bless Joe Bob Briggs. I watched a truly terrible movie on the SyFy channel last night -- Chupacabra vs. the Alamo (starring Erik Estrada, no less) -- and couldn't help but think of how Joe Bob would have reviewed it.

"Erik Estrada's dazzling teeth. Chupacabra-fu. Green screen motorcycle rides."

Yeah, something like that.

 

[NekoParks]

God bless Joe Bob Briggs. I watched a truly terrible movie on the SyFy channel last night -- Chupacabra vs. the Alamo (starring Erik Estrada, no less) -- and couldn't help but think of how Joe Bob would have reviewed it.

"Erik Estrada's dazzling teeth. Chupacabra-fu. Green screen motorcycle rides."

Yeah, something like that.

Not to mention the number of buckets of blood...

 

[slyc_willie]

Not to mention the number of buckets of blood...

Oh, God, don't tell me you watched it, too . . . .

 

[NekoParks]

Oh, God, don't tell me you watched it, too . . . .

No, but I watched Joe Bob Briggs MonsterVision on TNT. Plus, I used to read his Drive In Movie column back when wrote for The Dallas Times Herald. They were classic. My favorite were his series about the development of Forney's Area Rapit Transit or F.A.R.T. or Drunks Against Mad Mothers (DAMM). LOL.

 

[slyc_willie]

No, but I watched Joe Bob Briggs MonsterVision on TNT. Plus, I used to read his Drive In Movie column back when wrote for The Dallas Times Herald. They were classic. My favorite were his series about the development of Forney's Area Rapit Transit or F.A.R.T. or Drunks Against Mad Mothers (DAMM). LOL.

I was the managing editor for an independent student newspaper way back in '89-'90. One of our Arts & Entertainment guys was a big fan of Joe Bob and had a bi-weekly serial in the paper called The Theater of the Absurd. The series was inspired both by B movies and Briggs' comedy. I didn't realize the full depth of the comedy at the time, but had an opportunity, years later, to get copies of all the issues. Apparently, at some point Briggs himself had learned of the series and had sent a letter to its author. He kept it as a personal trophy.

 

[NekoParks]

I was the managing editor for an independent student newspaper way back in '89-'90. One of our Arts & Entertainment guys was a big fan of Joe Bob and had a bi-weekly serial in the paper called The Theater of the Absurd. The series was inspired both by B movies and Briggs' comedy. I didn't realize the full depth of the comedy at the time, but had an opportunity, years later, to get copies of all the issues. Apparently, at some point Briggs himself had learned of the series and had sent a letter to its author. He kept it as a personal trophy.

That's great! My younger sister wrote a letter pleading with Joe Bob Briggs to keep our local drive-in open during the winter months. Briggs (aka John Bloom) ran her letter and replied to it in his column. My sister still has it framed in her office. My brother-in-law was a reporter for The Ft. Worth Star Telegram in the 1980’s and knew John Bloom. I think that Bloom is a comic genius and his old Joe Bob Briggs columns in the 80's were classic. Unfortunately, satire is often misunderstood by the concrete thinkers in the crowd. Some people still think Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is a cooking column advocating cannibalism.

 

[NaokoSmith]

(And I love the hat, Stella.)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I got it and, being male, did a rolleyes. Haven't opened today's paper, yet. I suspect he's still on Joanie at the hearings though it may be time for a scene switch.

 

[jehoram]

I watched a truly terrible movie on the SyFy channel last night -- Chupacabra vs. the Alamo (starring Erik Estrada, no less) -- and couldn't help but think of how Joe Bob would have reviewed it.

"Erik Estrada's dazzling teeth. Chupacabra-fu. Green screen motorcycle rides."

Yeah, something like that.

Yeah, I watched it too. Joe Bob would have had to admit that there were zero breasts, but much flamage. It looked like Estrada had a lot of fun making it, though. What astonished me was how bad the CG chupacabras were. They should have hired WETA, but I guess you can't do that on a budget of $6.98.

I watched it for the same reason that Roger Ebert read The Da Vinci Code; he said something like "I read it to remind me that life is to short to read books like The Da Vinci Code."

 

[slyc_willie]

Yeah, I watched it too. Joe Bob would have had to admit that there were zero breasts, but much flamage. It looked like Estrada had a lot of fun making it, though. What astonished me was how bad the CG chupacabras were. They should have hired WETA, but I guess you can't do that on a budget of $6.98.

I watched it for the same reason that Roger Ebert read The Da Vinci Code; he said something like "I read it to remind me that life is to short to read books like The Da Vinci Code."

I watched it because it was in San Antonio . . . well, it was purported to be in my city, anyway. Man, were there a ton of plot holes. From the very first scene, in which the subtitle read "US-Mexico border, southeast of San Antonio" I knew it was going to be bad. Then, of course, there was Estrada's 300-mph motorcycle. How else could he drive to the border and back to San Antonio in the same morning?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ahh, cinema... what magic!