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September 22, 2005
Sweet, Sweet Milk
Today's Guest Speaker: Andy Roonie
Is it just me, or have kids stopped reading the comics page?
Back when I was a young lad...we even used words like lad back then - instead of kid; a kid is a baby goat, and I don't know about you, but I don't want to be called a baby goat, although there was a nanny around, so my point is that kids say the darndest things and the sweet, sweet milk that flowed forth from her teat made me do the jitterbug until I had to 23-skidoo.
So these comics today just aren't funny. In my childhood, and I'm talking about the days when I was a child, not one of these fancy new $300 protective devices for little Herbert so that when he rides his velocipede his precious coconut doesn't get scratched and all the sweet, sweet milk comes pouring out, so in my childhood they were called the funny pages.
Now I open the paper and it's all this narrow-focused non-humourous jibber jabber like Cathy, about some down on her luck lesbian who the convent turned away, or Gil Thorp, which promotes under-the-sweater-above-the-bra heavy petting among jocks and cheerleaders until all the sweet, sweet milk is gone.
The worst offender I've seen, and to be honest I didn't see it, but I had it read to me by my domestic, the worst offender is this Prickly City. I had the domestic read it to me twice and then yelled at her to get TODAY'S paper, not last week's. And you have to yell, it's the only way they learn. She insisted "Meester Andes, please to be seeing is to-day paper!" And as sure as that woman knows how to pull on my girdle so that I "lose" 50 pounds, it was today's paper. If it's obvious to me that this guy is just taking his talking points from the Wall Street Journal, no matter how erroneous they may be, you can bet your sweet, sweet milk that even a 4-year-old can see it.
Comments
Perhaps Stantis needs someone to crack his coconut - he is so dense.
No one is blaming Bush for the storm. Please, it's the conservatives that give him those God-like powers. He is to blame for not properly funding levee reconstruction, he is to blame for appointing a horse judge to head FEMA, he is to blame for not taking the recovery process seriously enough. And soon, he'll be to blame for sending all the contracts to Haliburton, he'll be to blame for appointing Carl Rove to manage the money, he'll be to blame for poor people of color having even less confidence in their government.
An Al Sharpton pot-shot is the lamest of the lame. AND, I cannot believe the John Roberts is going to be confirmed today, and we haven't seen a single panel talking about it?
Posted by: magpie at September 22, 2005 11:49 AM
I have the book... (it shames me, but I couldn't resist the "super secret"). One of the online features is a making of today's strip. You can see a scan of his notes to himself and drafts. In his scibbles there's a reminder to "read Drudge The Blame Game." Also, and I thought this was kind of odd, his editors added the Al Sharpton bit in the last panel. Carmen was supposed to roll her eyes and say some sarcastic remark about Bush controlling the weather.
Posted by: JB at September 22, 2005 11:59 AM
Darn it, JB...
You're causing me go to Border's after work to pick up the book. (According to Stantis on his podcast, Amazon is sold out of the first printing.)
Posted by: CJo at September 22, 2005 12:49 PM
Haha, watch out, they ask for your name and email after you put in the password so you can't share.
Posted by: JB at September 22, 2005 01:37 PM
My nearly 14-year-old son has started reading newspaper comics of late, a habit I encourage because I'd like to see the newspaper industry survive at least through one more generation. He's developed some favorites and reads them to me and laughs at the good ones.
Then he gets to Prickly City and this week's upside-down Winslow strips and says "Dad, I don't get this ... it's just not funny".
I offered reassurance that there's no sophisticated adult humor going over his head.
"Nobody really gets (Prickly City), son," I said. "You're not missing anything."
Posted by: jackmac at September 22, 2005 01:58 PM
jackmac - I honestly don't think there's anything to get. It's just kind of there, like shows on UPN.
Posted by: The Furnace at September 22, 2005 06:06 PM
I reviewed the book on Amazon. I should have put more thought into it, cuz it sounds very off-the-cuff, but I decided that the review should match the comic.
Posted by: FredN. at September 23, 2005 09:55 AM
