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February 17, 2007
Wouldn't You Like To Be a Hack Too?
Look closely between the first and second panels of today's Prickly City. It's small, but I'm sure it reads "2-17-2007." Today's date. Now granted Stantis probably wrote this a few weeks ago, but he's known for some time that he would run this strip today.
The strip is about a poll telling us about Americans and their desire for instant gratification. They want everything now, of course. So knowing how Stantis loves to fudge the numbers and make sh!t up, I did a quick Google on "poll instant gratification." The only poll I could come up with is this THIS AP Poll. Which was first written about on MAY 28TH, 2006.
That's right: Carmen's "recent" poll was done in May of last year.
Was that part of the gag? Did Stantis lie to us and say it's recent so he could pull a fast one and tell us it was about "instant" gratification and that liberal Winslow just can't slow down and enjoy life like a good Republican can?
Nope. I'm betting Stantis came up with a cutesy idea about people saying "I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now," looked for a poll that said as much, then wrote the strip saying it was recent even thought it's not. The f*cker saw that Dr. Pepper commercial with the guy driving his convertible in the Arctic drinking a pop and thought he could use it to comment on how Americans act. Stantis wouldn't let a little thing like the poll being from over 8 months ago get in the way of his "jokes" and his social commentary.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe someone did conduct a poll asking people yet again about instant gratification in the past month. Or maybe Stantis ordered Toby to ask everyone in the office "Hey, you want stuff now or later" and they all said now so Stantis could say it was a recent poll.
Or Stantis came up with a desired outcome, looked for the justification for it, and then manipulated the intelligence to get what he wanted. Ah yes, a typical Bush Republican.
We all want immediate satisfaction around Shrubville too, Stantis.
Quit. Now.
