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June 30, 2006
Revved Up Like a Deuce
Yes, when did we all become Tucker-Carlson-bow-tie-bidding-on-eBay-
stuff-grabbing-
thing-buying-
penny-colecting-
debt-ridden-
fakely-philosophical-rhetorical-question-asking-
wicked-ugly-face-in-a-twisted-rictus-of-want-and-desire-
buy-buy-buy-
fucking-buy-stupid-shit-all-the-time,
eh, Scott?
I don't know, Scott. We're just the stupid masses. We follow our leaders and their bullshit money grabs, blind to it all, patriotic to the core. Spending for freedom abroad while paying dearly for our freedom at home, and loving every minute of it.
Oh, say; can you see? By the dawn's early light? No, I didn't think so. Blinded by the light.
Posted by CJo at 12:08 PM | Comments (2)June 29, 2006
Funny Money, or How Winslow Got His Indentured Servitude Back
Credit cards good, if we don't spend the terrorists have won, etc. etc. Nothing ventured by our beneficent comic strip writer (without whom we would not be here today), nothing gained by us, the readers who clamor for more.
I'm one of those odd ducks who has never had and may never have a credit card. I suppose I'm one of those old tyme Paul Simon "pay as you go" Democrats. Heck, I don't even get credit for good deeds I often participate in achieving, such as the time I tried to provide for a homeless gentleman. I gave him a nice & crisp $5 bill and only asked for a single penny in return. Having respected the intelligence of my exchange partner, I assumed he was aware that such a penny (in very good condition, no less) would fetch $75,000 easily on the coin market. Yet to this day, I've been ostracized by my putative pals at the Numismatic Society for coming into possession of such a fine specimen in this manner, and have been blackballed into being unable to place it in a loving home (with a small adoption fee of $75,000). No good deed goes unpunished, indeed.
Posted by Sacki at 09:17 AM | Comments (1)June 28, 2006
The Single Most Disturbing Image I've Ever Seen
No further comment necessary or even possible.
Posted by CJo at 10:00 AM | Comments (5)June 27, 2006
Where's My Telegraph and Gramophone?
Oh boy, he's at it again. I don't mind if Stantis is going to take a week off from an overall storyline, but does he have to fall back on stuff that's never been funny?
Crazy Conservative Winslow is back to lovin' him some "stuff." He just can't get enough of technology, using his laptop to cruise ebay and amazon.com.
But Winslow needs to be careful. Someone out there could be illegally monitoring what websites he's cruising or what internet phone calls he might be making.
I really wonder why Stantis hates technology so much. He of the podcast and the internet comic and all that good stuff. Heck, I'll bet he trades stock on the internet. And you know he's a huge proponent of Cheney's missle defense system in the Pacific that has yet to be successfully tested. Three words from the conservatives and Mr. Cheney to you, North Korea: Bring It On.
Heck, now we're finding out that the conservatives love to use technology to track our banking records (although it's interesting that the White House is saying the New York Times has committed treason, but for some odd reason they're not going after the leakers this time - hmmmm...).
Scott Stantis, who I think might be nearing 40, is already at his Grampa Simpson stage. I can just hear him now: "I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me."
So unless this actually leads to something topical, it looks like Scooter is going to hit us with some more of his "classic hits." As JB pointed out on Sunday we'll get the iPod and the FatBlaster - only it'll still be Winslow, since he's the dumb and silly one. Too bad Stantis doesn't realize he's his proxy now.
Whoa wait - maybe Stantis does have an overall idea for this week: Winslow gets his laptop stolen and loses all of the vital information on the people of Prickly City. That would be what, the tenth time that's happened in the past month?
On an unrelated note, I can't wait for the strip two weeks from now that makes fun of Rush Limbaugh needing viagra...
June 26, 2006
Nocturnal Admission
What a quintessential PC today. Scott combines his many loves: 1-2 week old news stories typically linked from Drudge. Coyote "research" on Wikipedia ("Wow. They're nocturnal! AND crepuscular!"). Election year fright jokes. Easy-to-draw deep, black, blank space. Irrelevance. Inanity.
These strips shall now be referred to Cut-and-Run Strips, since Scott simply cuts-and-pastes ideas from old strips and runs them off to the syndicate. So while those poor poor poor, under-funded, oh-my-goodness-what-underdog GOP candidates hammer away at the Cuttin'-n-Runnin' Democrats, just remember who the real cut-n-runner is: Scott Stantis.
If you cut and run, you might miss the beautiful flower growing in the desert!
June 25, 2006
The Tranformation Is Complete
When I first read today's strip my immediate reaction was to rant and rave about how once again Stantis has flipped his characters. I mean let's face it: while it might be a stereotype, liberals are generally considered too smart for their own good (head people) while conservatives are too quick too shoot first and ask questions later (gut people).
(And now that I think about it that's probably not the best choice of words considering how the vast majority of conservative Republicans in our government are chickenhawks who only shoot when it's into the face of an old man.)
But the more I contemplate it, today's strip is far more representative of the inner struggle that rages daily inside the heart and mind of Prickly City creator Scott Stantis. You see, in the past he fancied himself Carmen. He *thinks* he's smart, but really he's not (remember, he dropped out of college, and we know it wasn't to serve in the military). And he's also quick to just jump right in to a storyline without thinking it through, like last week's mess. He went after Chertoff and Homeland Security, not stopping to think that the desert and the US/Mexico border is one of the parts of the country that actually needs that funding.
So Stantis might have thought he was having some fun at the expense of liberals, calling them stupid and cocksure. But the joke is on him, since he's transformed Winslow in the proxy for himself. Congrats Scott - today's strip actually confirms it. Winslow (Stantis) is a conservative and Carmen is a liberal. Deal with it. Or maybe you're not smart enough to realize that's what you've done, much like W getting us into Iraq.
Now do us all a favor and treat this strip like you did college - quit.
PS: Oh, and about the philosopher Bertrand Russell that Stantis quotes today (from Wikipedia): Continuing a family tradition in political affairs, he was a prominent liberal as well as a socialist and anti-war activist for most of his long life.
Yup, once again Stantis quotes a liberal to try and make a point. Geez dude, don't you ever stop to think about this stuff? But it is nice to have Carmen in the LIBERAL fold. At least until you flip flop once again like your idols in the middle of their man hug in today's picture.
Posted by The Furnace at 09:22 AM | Comments (3)June 24, 2006
A Study in Madness...or Lazi-azzness
Lately Prickly City has become a bizarre study of how a writer who's either not given enough time or is just too lazy comes up with a strip and follows through on his idea without actually thinking things through. This week let's us know that it's probably just laziness more than anything.
Let's follow the thought process. Stantis hears that Homeland Security is giving lots of money away. Now of course the real story was how NYC and DC were being told their national security money was being cut because they didn't have any historical monuments, which is just ridiculous. But instead Stantis focuses on how more money is being given willy nilly around the country. Fine. There's comedy gold in them thar mountains too. So on Monday Chertoff gives Carmen $10 million because he's crazy.
On Tuesday, we discover that our righteous conservative Carmen has refused the cash. Because, as I pointed out, lord knows Republicans don't want free money - or corporate money, or lobbyist money, or money from foreign governments like the Mariana Islands. Nope, instead "big government" Winslow takes the cash. But wait - he actually wants to hunt terrorists! Could this be possible? A liberal who hates our freedoms and wants the terrorists to win has accepted the money, something Carmen wouldn't do? Nah, it's just cuter for Winslow to be in the blimp and for Carmen to be the doubting thomas.
(A side note: I think most of us assumed that the reason Winslow bought a blimp is because it's the only vehicle Stantis can draw. I'll talk more later about how this actually backfired on him.)
The less said about Wednesday the better. Something about Burning Man and singed nose hair. This is called Stantis coming up with a joke only he thought was funny and it somehow got through.
Thursday is interesting because Stantis flipped through his calendar and realized that it was the anniversary of the eminent domain decision. He tries to shoehorn the issue into the strip and fails miserably. At least it's better than a retread of Winslow on a wrecking ball. However, keep in mind that Winslow is able to hover above the desert.
Friday the blimp crashes and Winslow talks about the bee "hating our freedom." Silly wacky liberal Winslow becomes the silly conservative because Stantis hates conservatives who don't agree with him. Blah blah blah - should have been Carmen - blah blah blah - Stantis sucks. CJo said it best - just ___ Stantis.*
Now we get to today's strip. And how Stantis, due to his laziness, has backed himself into a corner on ANOTHER issue. Winslow took another grant, but this time he built a lighthouse in the middle of the desert.
Wait a minute. Let's take the boat out of the strip for just a moment, since it's obviously just a sight gag. More importantly, Stantis HAD to include the boat. Why?
Because part of Bush's plan is to put watch towers along the border to prevent illegal immigration.
And instead of blimps (which I wouldn't doubt will be used as well), the Border Patrol is going to be flying drones to patrol the divide between the U.S. and Mexico.
Granted if Stantis lived in Kansas this week of strips would have made sense. He could have rightfully gone after the wasteful spending by Homeland Security, and he even could have bitched about eminent domain because of that monstrous inter-nation highway Bush is proposing that'll go through the middle of the heartland from Canada to Mexico. And I would have completely supported it.
Instead, without taking the time to think this out Stantis has actually gone after how ridiculous it is for us to patrol our boders, which - I'm sorry - doesn't make any damn sense. Is that what Scott intended? I don't think so. But if Scott Stantis is sending the message that we shouldn't be protecting our borders, what does that make him? Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives and Liberals, all believe we need to do something about illegal immigration. The only people who don't are the corporations who want the cheap labor and the people in Mexico who want to get better pay and working conditions than they get in their homeland.
Oh, and terrorists because they want to come over the border freely and plot to blow stuff up.
So why oh why, Mr. Stantis, do you hate America?
(*edited so Charles doesn't call the cops on me)
June 23, 2006
The Dirigibles
I won't harp on the fact that Winslow the liberal is spouting hawkish claptrap like "[the whatever] hate our freedom." I also won't harp on the magically changing blimp logo. And I won't get too hung up on a bee taking down a blimp.
I guess that only leaves the Hindenburg "joke" to comment on. And it sure is a real knee-slapper. The kind of joke that makes you say, "I didn't see that coming from 60-fucking-miles away."
If I could be so bold as to make a suggestion to Scott...
Hey, Scott. Next time, if you're going to joke about the Hindenburg, don't be afraid to go all out and let your characters be engulfed in flames and DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE.
Happy Friday!
Posted by CJo at 09:53 AM | Comments (3)June 22, 2006
Watch Me Pull A Comic Strip Out of My Ass! (Not Again...)
Man, this guy's so preachy. He should find himself a profession where preaching is considered a job requirement, something like Hamburgler or cockswain. And from his cox box at the stern of his dirigible-boat hybrid, like a mister knowitall with a degree from Whatsamatta U., he can remind us of all the things that happened on June 22 throughout history.
He can tell us about last year, when it was reported that former U.S. ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg and former journalist Don Oberdorfer stated that George W. Bush in 2002 turned down an offer from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to discuss the issue of nuclear weapons. Or he can tell us that on this date in 1957, Garry Gary Beers was born, and that under the astrological sign of Cancer he has an extremely powerful imagination(& perhaps he should enter the comic strip racket.) And before the helium in the balloon makes the sound of his voice the only hilarious thing he's got to offer, he can remind us that back in 1912, a great deal of Republicans who were upset with the inadequacies and incompetence of their man in the Oval Office decided to branch off and form the Bull Moose Party.
There is a song I sing, however, that gives me hope that this strip isn't alive for me to kick around next June 22:
Remember, Dios and Kevins,
The time will come soon, it will be time
When we beat your lousy strip
And you will remember us.
June 21, 2006
BeakerBusters
There are so many things wrong with this strip.
"Winslow, where did you get the money to buy a blimp?!"
Is Carmen that much of an idiot that she doesn't remember yesterday when Winslow told her he got a Homeland Security grant?
"That nice Mr. Chertoff, Carmen."
"From Homeland Security?!"
No, you little moron. Mr. Chertoff from the donut shop down the street. Again, maybe Carmen is so much of an idiot that she doesn't remember lecturing "Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff" on Monday about money.
"That doesn't make sense."
He should have ended it there.
At least we've cleared up the mystery of what logo is on the blimp. As postulated by Marc Heiden, it is Beaker's black half-brother. Today's close-up only serves to confirm that fact.
Posted by CJo at 09:33 AM | Comments (6)June 20, 2006
Rock and Roll Over
Oh, you wacky Winslow. In today's obvious follow-up to yesterday's Crazy Chertoff Money Orgy, it turns out that Winslow took Cher up on the offer and has sold himself out to The Man. Even got himself a fancy shmancy blimp, because that seems to be the only mode of transportation Scott Stantis can draw.
First of all, it surprises me that Winslow took him up on the deal, seeing as how he's supposed to be a liberal (okay, it doesn't surprise me one bit since it's Stantis, but it's a theme I've run into the ground so I'm going to keep running). You see, it looks as though most of Bush's buddies that were appointed to Homeland Security posts are the ones that are making mucho dinero in the private sector. In fact upwards of 90 of them have quit working for Bush and Chertoff and instead make more on the outside - and you just know they were making big bucks under this big government outfit. But hey, far be it for Stantis to actually have the Conservative Carmen be the one to sell out - lord knows nobody on the right sells out.
Secondly, what the hell is drawn on the side of Winslow the Republican's blimp? At first I thought Winslow had a problem with rock formations and the moon. Maybe he's against MSN Messenger (you know that little green guy in their icon). Then maybe it was a condom going on an erect Dick (Cheney). But then it hit me: I think it's supposed to be Osama bin Laden. No, really, that's what I think it is.
That brings us to today's Shrubville contest: what do YOU think is on Winslow's blimp? Most creative answer wins a phone call from Sacki on Thursday where he explains just what the heck he's talking about.
June 19, 2006
Monkey Eat, Monkey Doo-Doo
I guarantee you Stantis is sitting at home right now like a monkey patting himself on the back. "I'm no Administration lapdog," he's saying to himself. "To all my naysayers and ballbusters, I present to you this strip as evidence that I will take a shot at anyone, Left or Right."
Yes, Scott. Congratulations. [slow clap...slow clap...building...building...going faster now...faster...faster...faster...uproarious applause.] Whoopdeefuckingdo. Just like with a dirty Jennifer Grey starring as some dirty woman in some dirty film about dirty dancing that I have refused to watch since its dirty opening day until this very moment in time: Nobody puts Scotty in a corner. (That movie's name was Road House.)
So in the ENTIRE fucking REALM of the Grand Ole Partay-in-charge -- from the White House to the Senate to the House -- he's singled out the Homeland Security guy as a profligate fool.
I suppose Scott might also blame the monkeys for eating all the bananas in the world when it is clearly God who has created, budgeted, authorized, and distributed the bananas. You can't blame the monkeys, man! They're just doing what they were nominated to do: dance for nickels when the master grinds the organ.
Posted by CJo at 10:03 AM | Comments (4)June 18, 2006
If You Want a Happy Father's Day, Don't Read Prickly City. Ever.
I really hope someone gets Scott Stantis a calendar. Because if he had one he would have realized that today is Father's Day and he could have spared us this pretentious "comic" strip about how conservatives are right about Iraq and progressives all want to "cut and run."
You see in Stantis's mind Bush has planted the flower of democracy and freedom and snuggly puppies in the desert known as Iraq. Winslow realizes that it doesn't make much sense to plant a flower in the sand. However he goes insane over the idea, screaming "cut and run," something NO Democrat I've seen do yet that's how Republicans paint anyone who opposes them - crazy in the head. Then of course through the power of Carmen's smugness and sense of superiority the flower blooms.
One problem: Stantis leaves something out. After Winslow says the flower won't grow, he should have inserted a panel that says "OVER THREE YEARS LATER - AND PROBABLY MORE THAN FIVE YEARS SINCE PRESIDENT BUSH HIMSELF HAS SAID THAT IT WILL BE UP TO FUTURE PRESIDENTS TO WATER THIS FLOWER."
Once again I'll reference Jack Murtha. Six months ago he advocated redeploying our troops to the region so the Iraqis could work it out. And now he asks again - who thinks things will be better six months from now? A year? The answer seems obvious, especially after al-Zarqawi is killed and bombs have gone off all over Iraq. And al-Qaeda isn't even the biggest problem there - we've got two warring factions doing everything they can to stay in power, and the ones we seemingly want to win are allies with Iran, the next country the neo-cons want to invade, who just made a pact with Syria in case we do.
In other words, Bush and Co. keep piling sand and rocks and torture and killing innocent civilians on top of that little seed and somehow think that's going to help it grow.
So for all of you fathers out there, Happy Father's Day. I pray that your son or daughter isn't one of the ones sacrificing his or her life so George W. Bush can "grow democracy" around the world while he celebrates today with his daughters who are of age to serve in the military but never will.
Posted by The Furnace at 08:05 AM | Comments (2)June 17, 2006
Welcome to the RNC (Republican Nation's Comic)!
Hey everybody and welcome to the All Conservative Comic Strip!
On the extreme, Radical Religious Right we've Neo-Con Carmen! She's a corn-fed Bush Lover, feeling smug and superior to everyone else while they're all made to look foolish. Unfortunately the poor girl was born without a funny bone, but that's okay - a few more tax cuts for the rich and she'll be able to buy one off a homeless person! Please welcome Connie - er, I mean Carmen!
And on the not-so-far Right we have Republican Winslow! He's single, furry, and he used to be a liberal but since his creator questioned the war in Iraq he's been turned into yet another sheep. Please give a big round of applause to Winslow!
On today's show, more Gore bashing! Yup, can't get enough of that. At least we don't see ol' fatso claiming he invented the internet. Nope, now we get to bash Hillary instead! Ah yes, clever creator Scott Stantis (sorry ladies, he's single) says Gore won't just make Hillary look centrist, but SANE too! Ha ha ha ha! Oh stop, Mr. Stantis, my sides hurt! I think I broke a rib.
But please, if you're a first time reader don't look into this strip too much. Don't stop to think that Hillary is already a centrist who voted for the war in Iraq and has taken a moderate stand on nearly every issue out there.
And if you've been reading the strip for a while now, please don't look too hard into the character of Winslow. In the past he wouldn't have torn Hillary a new one by calling he insane - he'd probably call her one of his heroes. And he wouldn't have called Gore insane as well - he would have argued that Gore really is the President seeing as how he did win the popular vote in 2000.
But thinking is not what Prickly City is about! It's about wacky fun and craziness! So sit back, relax, grab your morning cup o' joe and enjoy the laugh outloud hysterics of the nation's most beloved comic strip! At least in Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly's houses.
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You know, I would say that Prickly City has jumped the shark thanks to the Iraq series and the whole immigration deal, but that would imply it was good at some point. Nobody ever said, "I think The Diaries of Desmond Pfeiffer jumped around episode three" or "It's so depressing that Homeboys in Outer Space made the leap over the shark when they went to the sex planet." Instead it just looks like Stantis, much like Arlen Specter, has given in to the far right wing of the Republican party and is making the whole strip red. Which is going to make writing for Shrubville just a bit harder - at least Winslow would make some liberal points now and then. Now it's going to be all Republican, all the time - and we know how unfunny those guys are. Expect Winslow to be wearing a "Club G'itmo" t-shirt and for Carmen to call the 9/11 widows "harpies" next week. Ha ha ha - shut up, Stantis. Maybe with those tax cuts of yours you can hire someone else to be funny, because you sure aren't.
Posted by The Furnace at 08:34 AM | Comments (2)June 16, 2006
None to Grow On
Today's strip makes as much sense as a diabetic Ella Fitzgerald reference. But let's try to decipher it anyway...
Being "Carbon Neutral" via "carbon offsets" is the concept of offsetting your carbon dioxide emissions via enviro-friendly activities. Spray underarm deodorant? Hug a tree. Drive an SUV? PLANT a tree. Charter an airplane? HUMP a tree. Or you can purchase "offsets" from agencies that will do the hugging/planting/humping on your behalf. Or something like that.
Seems like a noble enterprise, if you ask me. Take a little bit. Give a little bit. Give and take. Push and pull. Yin and yang. Yank and tug. Slap and tickle. Pound, pound, pound, release. It's all good.
But not According to Stantis. According to Stantis this practice "actually [adds] to the problem." Why? How? Huh? Wha?
Because, silly reader, it gives SMUG LIBERALS A FALSE SENSE OF SUPERIORITY. And THAT'S how it adds to the problem, you dope. Don't you get it? Don't you? You don't? No matter. Because, man, what a punch line: "TALK ABOUT AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH!"
You see...he turned Gore's title on its head! And used it AGAINST him! Kablammozingerific! Bling Blang hammer with his hammer! Zingo Zango cutting with his saw!
But if we look beyond the Crackling Wit & Wisdumb of Scott Stantis for a minute, we realize that he doesn't address any of the concerns that Gore raises. Instead, he pokes fun at Gore's appearance; he ridicules his speaking style; and uses this all as an excuse to rib liberals.
Meanwhile, all across America, factories belch filth into the sky; our streams and ponds are dumping grounds for waste; and teens -- who no doubt earlier in the day sprayed on underarm deodorant -- will throw half-eaten fast food out their car windows onto the feet of an extra-tanned Italian man who is dressed up in Native American garb. And a tear will slowly trickle down his cheek...
...And our own cheeks will blush with shame.
June 15, 2006
Emerald Asian Ash Bored To Death
This strip really has no legs. It's the Ella Fitzgerald of comic strips. (Or for those of you locally, Ron Santo.)
You know the inconvenient truth? Ella Fitzgerald actually has more legs than this comic strip. I know, I'm horrible, and I'm beating this into the ground. Ella's left us, however, and is 6 feet deep, so I still have 5 more feet to beat before I'm through.
Anyhow, to wrap it all up in a big cedar bow, as long as Scott is talking about wooden performances, how about this chestnut:
"I own a timber company? That's news to me. Need some wood?"
And that's the kind of performer that neither Gore nor Kerry could beat. I'm not even sure they could beat Ella in a 40-yard dash.
As long as I'm going on about how badly Bush, Stantis and my entry today suck, for all that, the Democrats suck worse. I remember the talk back in 2004. Kerry gained steam in the primaries on account of his "electability":
"High school senior Beth Ryder-Kenna knows this quandary well. When she started thinking about voting in the Maine caucus, Dennis Kucinich's ideas got her fired up. "He has really strong beliefs about the environment, about trade and the war in Iraq," she said. But when she showed up at the caucus, Beth threw her support behind John Kerry.
I'm sure she's just one out of many who pissed away a perfectly good vote in order to get the electable Kerry the nomination. I'm not saying I'm going to cut and run (strictly a Republican strategy), but people, people, people (yes, all 3 of you dear readers): let this history be your lesson vis a vis Hillary and the '08 primaries.
Stay tuned for next week's history lesson, as I'll discuss the times before our culture became attention-addled when events less than 2 years old were "current events" and not "history."
Posted by Sacki at 09:20 AM | Comments (1)June 14, 2006
A Convenient Target
As usual, the Furnace nailed Stantis on Sunday. "He's going to spend a week bashing Al Gore and his movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.'" Good call, my man.
And, as usual, Stantis -- to use an out-of-season sports metaphor, because out-of-season sports are all the rage apparently -- he FUMBLES the ball. On the snap, even.
Of course, we couldn't have Stantis attacking a foe of the Right without Stantis drawing said foe as inexplicably fat.
Oh, but you're attacking the MESSAGE, right, Scott? The MESSAGE. It's the Liberals who attack the person, right, Scott? Isn't that what you harp on in your pointless podcast that hasn't been updated in over two weeks? Liberals attack the person; Conservatives attack the message?
Is that why you drew Al Gore as fat? Is that why you drew Al Gore to look and act like Frankenstein? Is that Al Gore's message, Scott?
Of course not. Al Gore's "message" -- or at least one of them -- is warning of global warming.
Or, in the words of Scott writing on behalf of Al Gore, "You're gonna die! Consumed in a cloak of water and heat!" Maybe I'm missing something, but Al Gore doesn't run around shouting like a hysterical ninny that we're going to die. Instead he presents a well-studied, well-reasoned, SCIENTIFIC argument. I suppose that's his sin, though. Using SCIENCE. God fucking forbid someone use research, observation, testing, study, and experimentation. No, leave them FANCY BUZZWORDS to the liberals and their FANCY book-learning ways, yessireeeScott.
Oh, and a Lock Box joke? That wasn't even funny circa 2000 on SNL let alone six. fucking. years. later. What's next? Internet-inventing jokes? Love canal? Love STORY? If the press wrongfully zinged [zang?] Gore for it six years ago, you can bet Stantis has it written down in a tattered notebook he carries around titled in big, bold, crayon-lettered crazy-man scrawl "I Was So Embittered by Eight Years of Clinton That I'm Going to Spend the Rest of My Working Life Making Fun of Liberals."
Dear Scott: Move on. Dot Org.
Posted by CJo at 09:01 AM | Comments (6)June 13, 2006
The Final Straw
Stantis finally admits he rips off Charles Schulz (admittedly a lot of strippers do), but at least he admits he sucks at it.
But Stantis can't even do that right.
Who holds the damn ball? Who??? That's right, Lucy Van Pelt. The GIRL. Who's the one who's supposed to be in control, and no matter what she holds the upper hand - making her opponent look like a fool when he finally trusts her against his better judgment? In a political sense, it's the Republicans. It's CARMEN.
But that's not what Stantis does. Yet again he's got Carmen being the one to get the joke. Winslow looks cutesy holding the ball, yet it doesn't make any sense - because he knows she's never going to kick the damn football. But Stantis doesn't make the gullible Winslow the gullible Charlie Brown - he once again betrays his characters so he (Carmen) can be the one to reject being made a fool of by his opponents.
William Faulkner once said, "Kill your darlings." To me it's always meant that you have to do what's right for your characters - not what's right for you. Stantis has never learned this. And that's why his comic strip is so terrible.
At least his drawing is decent in this one, but I get the feeling it's because he hopes everyone will cut it out of their newspaper and post it on the fridge. They won't, because it represents everything wrong with Prickly City.
June 12, 2006
All We Need is Just a Li'l Patience
Did you see the poll which said that Cartoonists who troll news websites for a scrap of a thread of a strand of a speck of a "news" story in order to painfully fill out one day's worth of strips are desperate dopes who are in need of an early retirement?
Maybe you didn't see that poll because you were too distracted by the picture of Howard Dean on the cover of Carmen's newspaper. Or maybe you were distracted by Winslow's blue-tooth-earring which he is using, one supposes, to communicate with his calculator. Or maybe you are wondering why Carmen is reading the newspaper in the middle of the night in the middle of the desert.
At any rate, Stantis better hurry-the-fuck-up and get relevant again [ha ha ha...as if he were ever]. I'm not going to wait around for much longer.
Posted by CJo at 08:29 AM | Comments (5)June 11, 2006
Hey, My Hermano, Can You Draw This?
I'm not sure what's more embarrassing - the fact that Scott Stantis tries to be hip by using the slang terms "kickin" and "kicks" (roughly translated: bad ass shoes), or that he follows that up by saying "my amigo." Who says "my" amigo? Maybe it's because I took Spanish in high school, but it's always been "mi amigo" around these parts. Then again Prickly City's far right Republican readers might have had a conniption fit if they found out that little Carmen was a Mexican. "Illegal! Boot her out! And her little cat too!"
What's more frustrating than embarrassing though is that today's strip is about shoes. Wednesday's strip was about shoes as well - God's shoes (he likes New Balance). So does Stantis make ANY kind of reference to actually try and tie his storyline and his Sunday strip together? Nope. Not even a flip remark about how they're "God-recommended." Laziest comic strip writer ever.
I know I said I wasn't going to strap them on yesterday, but since today's strip is a little thin...Future Goggle time! What was happening in the world a few weeks ago that Scott Stantis could use as fodder for PC?
- Pat Robertson says thanks to his holy energy drink he can leg-press 2000 pounds. No, that's not an extra zero at the end there - two THOUSAND pounds. Which is mighty impressive for a man in his seventies, and since most weight lifters say there aren't any machines that actually can carry two grand in weight. I'm hoping Carmen orders a box of the stuff hoping to get super human strength, but all it does is let her leg-press stuff really well. Lotta good that'll do her in the desert. Then again, one day Winslow could get pinned by a boulder and it's up to Carmen to leg-press him out. She couldn't do it though (come on, a holy energy drink? God-ade?), but then God's big finger would come along and roll the boulder away. Then he could ask Winslow, "new shoes?" and Winslow would have to explain that they're not New Balance, and God would strike him down with a lightning bolt.
- FBI agents - with a warrant - raided the Congressional offices of allegedly corrupt Democcratic Congressman William Jefferson. I say allegedly because that's what you're supposed to say before the guy's convicted, but come on - they have him on video taking a hundred thousand dollar bribe and then found ninety grand of it in his freezer at home. The Republicans of all people panicked and said the FBI had crossed the line. Not because they care about what happens to a corrupt Democrat, but because they know their offices are about to be raided shortly since there are at least a dozen of them already under investigation. Hmm, how could this play out in PC...maybe Carmen is accused of taking payola of some kind, and Winslow comes to her defense...but it turns out he's really the guilty one anyway. Nah, that's not funny. Then again, this is Stantis we're talking about...
- Any chance Stantis - now supposedly not a fan a Bush - tackling the fact that during a press conference with Tony Blair the President admitted some mistakes, but as soon as he finished saying that he had a big smirk on his face? Nah, Stantis probably doesn't know how to draw a smirk.
- Remember when somebody heard "gunshots" in the Capitol complex and everybody immediately assumed it was a terrorist attack? My first thought - some dumbass heard a car backfiring and freaked since it's a post-9/11 world. I was wrong though - it was some guy using an air hammer in an elevator. Not sure how that would fit into PC, but I wanted to remind everybody of that stupid incident.
- Lay and Skilling were convicted in the Enron case, proving the justice system still has a chance. Maybe Stantis will have Winslow and Carmen just standing around talking about it, since that's what he does with everything nowadays.
- Oh god...he's going to spend a week bashing Al Gore and his movie "An Inconvenient Truth." Yup, it's going to be a week of people in the desert telling us there is no such thing as global warming, and comparing Gore to the Nazis. Wonderful. Maybe they'll have him guest star like they did on that lame South Park a few weeks ago and make him look gay. That was funny.* (as is the mantra of this site, if you can't tell I'm being sarcastic)
While writing this I noticed I wasn't able to come up with cutesy ways that Winslow and Carmen could play out these news stories. I don't think it's because I've lost my imagination - it's because I know Stantis won't even try. The last time he did that he put Winslow in the desert looking for weasels, and that backfired so badly Stantis is afraid to take a side on anything. And even then he was just having them either standing or crouching in the desert. The most effort we get from him anymore is showing Winslow falling off a cliff and sorry, been there, done that. What happens when Shrubville, one of the few groups of people that read PC, become so bored with it even we get tired of making fun? Is that what it'll take for Stantis to quit on it like he did his "Sydney" strip as Charles found out? One can only hope.
June 10, 2006
The Big-Boned Lady Is Warming Up...
So this is what it's come to.
After a week of directionless strips about God, Stantis falls back on Winslow trying to "get his wings" and fly. Unfortunately it seems as though Scott's dust up with the Radical Right over his series on the war in Iraq and immigration have neutered him something fierce, and I get the feeling he didn't know the troubled waters he was treading when he stuck God's big finger into Prickly City.
It could have been really interesting - just what was God talking about? Did He want Republicans to start acting like conservatives, which is Stantis's main complaint? Maybe He wanted us out of Iraq. Maybe He wanted us to quit arguing about the illegal immigration problem and find a solution. Or maybe He wanted the Republicans to stop trying to cut taxes for the rich in a time of war. But we'll never know what He wanted - because Stantis didn't have the balls to pick something and run with it.
As CJo opined, could this be the end? What good is a neo-con comic strip if it doesn't tackle any political issues, or at the very least make good arguments for his side when he does pick an issue? For over a year now the powers that be have let it slide - because Bush is in office and the Republicans control the Congress and the judiciary. But with the fall elections on the horizon, and Stantis afraid to take a stand on anything, should they keep his lame brand of humor and horrible drawing or does Beetle Bailey make a comeback?
Originally I was going to strap on the Shrubville Future Goggles and try to predict where Stantis was going to go with the strip over the next few weeks. But what's the point? Odds are even if Stantis does go after a topic he won't actually state a position, and if he does Winslow will be the one to be made to look the fool no matter what.
I mean how funny would it be two weeks from now to see Carmen possessed by the insane spirit of Ann Coulter and have Winslow befriend one of the 9/11 Widows? Stantis could draw Carmen again with long skinny legs wearing a cocktail dress at all hours of the day with flowing blond hair and an adam's apple. She'd then call Winslow's new friend a "harpy" and suggest that her husband was going to divorce her right before the planes hit (why that little passage in her book didn't get as much attention is beyond me).
Or maybe Stantis could have them standing there talking about the death of Zarqawi (he can't really have them go back to the desert and name a hamster with the same name since the Radical Righties would tear into him for that again).
Heck, this upcoming week could be about Bush trying to ban gay marriage with a Constitutional amendment. Hook Winslow up with his illegal immigratant pal and let the sparks fly.
But nope, I don't think any of those stories will get any attention in the coming weeks. We'll probably get some lame nonsense about Winslow flying or Carmen lecturing us on being fat. Because that's all Prickly City is anymore - just another lame comic strip. And it's about time his editors realize that and pull the plug - a mercy killing, if you will.
Hey, that would make for a pretty good strip as he's shown the door...Carmen on a respirator...Winslow literally pulling the plug...and then we realize it was all a terrible dream that Opus was having. "It was terrible - it didn't make any sense and it was drawn by a pre-schooler and I said I was a conservative but I was really a Republican - thank God it's over!"
Maybe that's what God wanted us to knock off: Prickly City.
Posted by The Furnace at 09:04 AM | Comments (2)June 09, 2006
This I Believe
I believe, too.
I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract.
I believe that if you colored today's strip and expanded the frame a little, you'd have a Stantis Sunday Special.
I believe that in the absence of juicy liberal targets, Stantis has flailed and failed repeatedly.
I believe Stantis is running on fumes.
I believe Stantis is no longer believing. Or caring. Or trying.
I believe this is all ending real soon.
Posted by CJo at 09:38 AM | Comments (2)June 08, 2006
Thunder From Down Under, or Blooming Hell
When did 'gocomics.com' replace 'ucomics.com'? I can't be sure, because Shrubville tells all there is to know, making it unnecessary to bother checking in on the actual strip. Let's hear it for CJo and Furnace and they quality posts they put up 6 days out of the week.
If I can step back for a second and discuss yesterday's strip, and I believe I can and will, I took note of a certain quote given by a certain character - "Is God allowed in Modern US society?" I turned it over in my mind, slept on it, and decided. Yes, God is allowed in modern US society. Every week we find out that we're all created equally in God's image, courtesy of US. We're so gosh darn alike it's scary, and yet we probably won't go another week without Prickly City bashing our brothers and sisters in Hollywood.
I'm glad I could straighten that out, because I'm not sure I could handle the mixed messages in today's strip too well.
First, God sends a message to "knock it off." I was unaware that God went around yelling "Oy! We're gonna surprise you!" Who would the "we" be, anyhow, the Holy Trinity? Does this disprove the Protestant movement?
Second, what's this "implied" business that God is talking about? How should we take his explicit direction from the first book of the Bible to "be fruitful"? Should Winslow infer from this that it's time for a trip to the bathhouse?
And finally, to top off the confusion...dinosaurs? As George Harrison might say the Chiffons were implying - my sweet lord! Dinosaurs & the word of God lying together in the panel as a man would with a woman? For Scott's sake, I hope that Carl Everett doesn't read the comics, or he might go jurassic on his ass, and not in the good way that Winslow would.
Posted by Sacki at 09:39 AM | Comments (2)June 07, 2006
Is it the Shoes? It's gotta be the Shoes
What an utter disappointment. He sets us all up for a Heathen Smackdown but then veers off into pussyfoot shoe territory. You just can't win, Scott. We hammer you when your strip is an inane lecture on the joys of conservatism and we ream you when you drop politics and try to be "funny." And in weeks like this, when you flirt with a Conservative Cause Celebre ("Is God allowed in Modern US society?"), and then don't deliver anything -- no stinging rebuke of Liberalism run amok, no "jokes" worth a chuckle [as if] -- you especially earn our scorn. What's the point, man? Fight with us, amuse us, or put away your markers. You've got to know when to scold 'em, know when to fold them, know when to whale away, and know when to shun.
Now get down on your knees, boy. And repeat after me. (And you'd better be contrite, or else!)
O my God,
I am heartily sorry for
having offended no one,
and I detest all my strips,
because I dread the loss of syndication money,
and the pains of joblessness;
but most of all because
they offend Thee, my God,
Who are all good and
deserving of all Carmen's love.
I firmly resolve,
with the help of Thy and Toby's grace,
to praise Conservatism,
to slam Liberals,
and to tease Michael Moore about his weight.
Amen.
Posted by CJo at 08:26 AM | Comments (2)June 06, 2006
And God Spoke And He Said...Hey Now, There's LOTS More Where That Came From
Carmen finally hears it through the grapevine that supposed non-believer Winslow spoke to God. So of course she's immediately skeptical instead of anxious to embrace that her Godless liberal friend has seen the Light. Yeah, I know, it doesn't make any sense, but if she did buy his quick conversion Stantis couldn't use his faith-based punchlines.
After reading CJo's great entry yesterday, and seeing Republicans like Senators Brownback and Cornyn calling it a "battle" and a "war on marriage"*** I thought I'd do a little googling and find out what else should be amended to the Constitution because the Bible says so - or at the very least should be made into laws. This site offers some good ideas.
- Let's start with marriage. Lamech is the first of a long line of biblical men with more than one wife. It seems that God approves of such marriages, because Esau, Jacbo and Abraham also had more than one wife, or at least a couple of concubines. Polygamy - it's what God wants! Genesis 4:19, 23
- Ladies, I hope you like your brother-in-law. If a man dies before his wife has a child, then the widow must marry her husband's brother -- whether she likes him or not, and whether she wants to or not. Deuteronomy 25:5
- Leviticus has a whole section about menstruating women. Just check out 15:19-30 and 33 and see what we're going to have to do with them during that time of month. And you thought it was going to be tough to export all of these illegal aliens...
- If a man has sex with his father's wife, it's the death penalty for both of them. Leviticus 20:11
- Same goes for a man that has sex with his daughter in law. Fry their asses! Leviticus 20:12
- Time to rewrite those tax laws: When a man dies, his sons inherit his property. Wives and daughters get jack. Deuteronomy 21:16
- Ladies, time to sell those pants: Women are not to wear men's clothing -- it's an "abomination unto the Lord." Deuteronomy 22:5
- And my favorite: If a woman refuses to cover her head in church, then her head must be shaved. 1 Corinthians, 11:5-6
It goes on and on like this, and at this point I realize I'm just beating a dead horse (which I think means I'm to be burned at the stake or I have to sacrifice a goat, I'm not sure which). If the Radical Religious Right wants to define marriage as the Biblical union between a man and a woman, why don't they want to go all out and do EVERYTHING the Bible wants? Hell, at the very least make divorce illegal since it's supposed to be "until death do us part," right?
I'm going to have to keep reading through the Good Book...there's got to be something in there about the punishment for an unfunny comic strip artist that talks about an animal wanting to have sex with Secretary of State Conde Rice...
Oh wait, here it is, Leviticus 20:15 - If a woman "lies with a beast" both the woman and the animal are to be killed. Sorry Winslow - maybe if you have a little faith God won't smoosh you with that big hand of his.
(*** - To all of those morons in Congress who refer to this as an attack, or a battle, or a war on marriage - when we're in the middle of at least two REAL wars that you idiots got us into without an exit strategy, it's not the best idea to go around comparing a silly amendment discriminating against gays to them. Maybe Congress needs to hold session in Baghdad or Haditha so they can really appreciate what war is.)
June 05, 2006
On the Seventh Day, God Created an Amendment....
Taking a break from granting Christian sports teams victories, God decides to visit our friend Winslow in today's strip, charging him with a mission to "tell everyone to knock it off." Off all the worthy vessels on this good Earth -- Kirk Cameron, Jesus and Mary Magdalene's descendants, any character from 'Veggie Tales,' Bruce Tinsley, Jessica Hahn's breasts, abortion clinic bombers, Communion host manufacturers, altar GIRLS, choir BOYS, any Chik-Fil-A employee -- why God chose Winslow is a mystery that will only be revealed upon the opening of the Ark of the Covenant. (Shield your eyes, non-believers!)
However, we can probably figure out Stantis's mission in this series: to shame the non-believers, to link anti-God rhetoric to Liberals, to ask -- tears streaming down his face, his side lanced, his head thorn-crowned -- "My God, My God, Why have the Democrats forsaken You?"
If only we had a president who would restore honor and dignity to the White House. Oh wait. We already HAVE that guy. And here he goes restoring that honor and dignity by asking, What Would Jesus Do About Same Sex Marriage? Granted, his version -- in which Jesus takes a magic needle and thread and sews up the anuses and mouths of all homosexuals and tells them to pretend to like different sexes all their lives -- is maybe a little...off.
You know what I think Jesus would do at a same-sex wedding? He'd turn water into wine. He'd juggle handkerchiefs. He'll pull a white dove from a black hat. A bouquet of flowers would appear out of nowhere. Don't forget the card tricks!
And he'd probably get paid $100 for his time.
That's all for today. I'm off to worship a false idol and to covet my neighbor's wife. (Both at the same time! Two birds with one stone!)
Posted by CJo at 09:39 AM | Comments (3)June 04, 2006
The No Fly Zone
Winslow tries to fly. Again. Do I really need to dwell?
However, today's strip does have me thinking. I've noticed over the past few months that no matter who the Democrats have leading them, the Republicans and the conservative media will do everything in their power to tear them down. It might be a little easier with some guys, but Wes Clark? Jack Murtha? So I got to wondering, what would happen if they appointed someone that most if not all Americans would normally support?
Who would be the first line of offense? That's right - Bill O'Reilly.
This is how I envision his response to the announcement that the Democrats have their nominee for the 2008 presidential election: Superman.
Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly: Today the Democrats announced their candidate for president in 2008, and boy - it's a doozy. Superman. That's right, Superman. The "man in tights" is their nominee. Now sure, Superman has done a lot for his country. But is he REALLY someone we want leading the most powerful nation in the world? Let's take a look at where he stands on the issues, shall we?
First of all, he's anti-kryptonite. Now sure, it's lethal to him - but what about those of us that like our kryptonite jewelry? There's an entire kryptonite industry that could be destroyed because poor ol' Superman can't be around the stuff. All I know is that I'm not about to tell Mack out in Idaho that the huge green rock he just found in his field isn't worth jack anymore.
Superman is a pacifist. He's anti-military. And he claims to be against violence, even though he's the one who seems to do the most damage when he's fighting in downtown Metropolis. I'm sorry, but Superman - do you want the terrorists to win? You know, now that I think about it, I sometimes wonder if you intentionally let some of your arch enemies into our land just so you can impress your followers.
And we can't forget his position on the environment. My sources tell me that he has a secret hideaway in the Arctic, and he's afraid that the global warming boogeyman is going to melt it away. Well I'm sorry Superman, but what's more important - your little fortress of solitude, or the millions of American jobs that will be lost if we buy into Al Gore's fantasies of global warming?
I'm sorry, but I can't in good faith support such an anti-American, anti-capitalism treehugger like Superman. Lex Luthor tells me not to trust him, and I trust Lex Luthor. Besides, Superman shouldn't even be allowed to run for president. He's an alien. Maybe even an illegal alien. And until I see your green card, Mr. Superman, you're not welcome in MY America.
***
Next week: what if the Democrats nominated Jesus?
June 03, 2006
At Least Go After Freddy Prinze Jr., Numb Nuts
Oh, poor Scott Stantis.
I've talked about this syndrome with Scooter before. I described it as watching a child riding a bike without the training wheels for the first time - at first everything is going great, but then danged if he doesn't ride that bike right into the ditch.
Problem is most kids learn how to ride a bike after a couple of failed tries. For Stantis, it's been years now and he's still falling down.
Today's strip starts out strong - Carmen wants to sneak Americans into Mexico illegally - that'll show 'em! But what can Americans do that Mexicans won't?
(there goes the bike...pedal faster Scotty...you've got it son...)
"Find George Lopez funny."
(!!SMASH**CRASH%%BANG!!MOMMMYYY!!!)
What does Stantis have against George Lopez? I mean, was he the first guy outside of Cheech and/or Chong that he thought of that people might laugh at who happened to be Mexican?
My first thought when I read this, and it should have been Stantis's and Toby's as well: is George Lopez really that unpopular with the hispanic audience?
Let's see...I'm not some big time comic strip artist with an office and a freakin' assistant...what can I possibly do to find out if George Lopez brings the funny to Mexicans?
"And the lord said let there be Google, and it was good."
A couple of keywords later, and I found THIS. Well, turns out that George Lopez actually is...hmm...is this right? He's got the highest rated English language series with Hispanics according to Nielsen.
Heh. Well, I, um, guess that Stantis punchline doesn't make a lick of sense then, does it?
Seriously, how many times do we have to go through this? It's as if Stantis just can't be bothered with actually caring to be funny, much less be accurate while not being funny.
I think for me personally though the reason this strip offends me is because it invokes this whole Republican notion that there are some jobs that Americans just won't do. Bull crap. What, our lawns didn't get mowed for the first few hundred years we were here? We had to wait for the oranges to fall to the ground since we wouldn't pick them? We're Americans, dammit, we can and will do any job - just pay us a fair wage.
Sorry, got a little upset there. For those of you reading on the weekend, what would you have the Americans sneaking into Mexico do? Here's a really simple suggestion: "Manage." Or you could go the Enron route, and say "Bilk the stockholders out of millions through insider training." Share in the comments section, if you will.
June 02, 2006
Asshole
This is not a picture of an asterisk. This is an asshole as drawn by Kurt Vonnegut.
Are you listening, Bruce Tinsley? Apparently so.
But this website isn't about Mallard Fillmore. At least not yet. It's about Prickly City -- a strip that continues to whimper and stumble, limp and fumble on its downward sliiiiiiiiiiide to inconsequentiality [j. kendall or kara...is that a word??].
So today may or may not be the end of the sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing series on immigration. And what a doozy, art-wise. Lookit the last panel. Lookit. Lookit closely.
First there's the homage to Ray Charles, as Winslow quotes a song of his while blindly (and ignorantly) falling off a cliff. And then there's the "minuteman militia," a futuristic crew chasing Winslow. In the lead is a soldier carrying not only a pitchfork in front, but also a barrel on his back. IN ADDITION, on his shoulders is some sort of robotic rock'em-sock'em creature which is holding high in the air a pasta spoon with two strands of extra-long spaghetti trailing in the wind. Close on his heels is a "truck" which is being driven by an alarm clock. In the bed of the truck is a half man/half dog head creature holding another pasta spoon with trailing spaghetti.
And so it goes.
Posted by CJo at 09:05 AM | Comments (4)June 01, 2006
I Went With Nothing
Well done, Mr. Comic Stripper. Make light of the mental illnesses of the good men and women defending the liberties of this country three days after Memorial Day. What great conservative values you show.
Speaking of delusional conservatives and the values they purport to uphold, I'm sure many of you have seen the National Review's list of the top 50 conservative rock songs, the one in which the writer cherrypicks certain lyrics and misapplies them to support his own viewpoint. In his followup to the initial offering, he challenges the readers "...to...assemble of list of the 50 best left-wing country songs." Now, I'm not as crazy as John Miller, so I won't waste my time or yours misappropriating certain select lyrics from songs that aren't political, but here's my contribution, in which the liberalism of workers' rights, civil rights, environmental rights, gun control and so forth and so on ad infinitum, ad astra, sub vino.
Marty Robbins, El Paso
In favor of gun control:
Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel
A deep burning pain in my side
Hank Williams, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Unregulated big business kills nature:
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That means he's lost the will to live
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sixteen Tons
Unions fighting for workers’ rights:
You load sixteen tons an' whaddya get?
Another day older an' deeper in debt
Saint Peter doncha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company sto'
Carter Family, Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Reflects the tragedy of xenophobic anti-immigration policies which break up families:
All my brothers sisters crying
What a home so sad and lone
Waylon Jennings, Good Ol’ Boys
The freedom to be a queer is nature, not nurture; anti-gay legislation ruins good ol’ people:
Just the good ol' boys
Never meanin' no harm
Beats all you've ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born
Garth Brooks, The Thunder Rolls
Global warming (which doesn't exist!) leads to ever more severe hurricane seasons:
The thunder rolls
And the lightnin' strikes
I'm sure I've skipped over a couple, so let me know which ones I missed.
Posted by Sacki at 09:51 AM | Comments (3)
picture courtesy of JB