Pictures and Images – funny and/or interesting
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Those idiots, building the pyramids right next to a honking great town!
In other news, here’s the best explanation of NFTs you’ll ever find:
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Amazing!
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The suitcase from Pulp Fiction?
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Ralph Wiggums with the power of Dr. Manhattan – very frightening thought.
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That’s a terrible drawing of Jack Kirby.
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Too many to post, so here is the link:
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From that:
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From that:
Coincidentally, those were my two favorites.
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Wait… Ant-Man caused COVID?
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Update from today’s Rancho Bizarro
Today’s cartoon is a combination of two names: Georgia O’Keeffe and Keith Richards. Although it is hard to imagine a reader of English who has never heard of Keith Richards (guitarist for The Rolling Stones), I can easily imagine many who may not be aware of the artist, Georgia O’Keeffe. If you search her name online, though, you’ll likely see images you recognize. The one on the back of her jacket above is one famous example.
Part of the joke here is that folks with a certain type of British accent regularly pronounce “TH” like “F” so “Keith” sounds like “Keef”. I know that explaining a joke is anathema to some humorists but I don’t mind cluing folks in when the gag is tricky.
This kind of combination of names or phrases to create a joke doesn’t have an official name, but my partner, Wayno, specializes in this kind of gag and has named them streptonyms. He explains why in an old blog post of his here, which features two such cartoons that he and I did together some years back.
Wayno didn’t write the one above, however, and neither did I. It was suggested by a Canadian friend of mine who calls himself Martin. It is well that there is no “H” in his name or in Britain he may be called “Marfen”. Whatever you choose to call him, I got a giggle out of his notion for a streptonym and really enjoyed illustrating it.
Here’s a semi-puzzler: Those of you who take pride in being particularly observant may enjoy figuring out what fairly necessary item I left out of the cartoon above.
To play a solid-body guitar while jumping around, you pretty much need a shoulder strap. I left it off because it would block the image on the back of her jacket, which is an integral part of the joke. Thanks for not noticing!
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I think maybe some of the other dominoes need labelling there.
Where’s the fun in that. I mean, at least I picked one that has fewer steps to Ellen’s show being cancelled, because there’s one that starts with the World Trade Centre attack…
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Or he saw that one South Park episode where they (sort of) did that.
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It would be interesting to see the cover of the first few issues of that magazine, to see if it started out with positive stories that fit the title, or if it’s always been unremitting grim, sensationalist stuff.
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It would be interesting to see the cover of the first few issues of that magazine, to see if it started out with positive stories that fit the title, or if it’s always been unremitting grim, sensationalist stuff.
Decided to sacrifice a few minutes looking this up. Love It! launched in 2006 (by News International’s magazine arm but has been sold twice since then). This is an early cover.
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It looks a little more positive, I’m assuming nobody died or lost a limb in the ‘scrummy rugby’ story and it’s just some good looking lads for the mums to enjoy.
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“I hired a hitman to kill me” is a title that rather blows the ending.
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My dead son – boo! – won me the lottery – yay!
Bittersweet.
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“Dwarf Husband Left Me Short”. That’s some political incorrectness right there.
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It looks a little more positive, I’m assuming nobody died or lost a limb in the ‘scrummy rugby’ story and it’s just some good looking lads for the mums to enjoy.
I think that ball had a rough time of it.
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The Twitter zingers I posted are nice, but I want to take a small break from it.
Here are two comic related:
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“Dwarf Husband Left Me Short”. That’s some political incorrectness right there.
It’s quite hard to fathom sometimes how recently people could get away with a lot of that stuff.
2006 covers the period Little Britain was broadcast in the UK and the comedians involved were ‘blacking up’ for parts. I don’t think there was ever malicious intent but they’ve since apologised and accepted it was never their right to do that.
Love It! is pretty obviously by its nature an exploitative thing anyway, basically profiting on personal tragedy, but I highly doubt they would dare use that copy today.
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No helicopter parenting in Rochdale in 1980. Helicopter kids.
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I was going to ask if that’s a conspiracy theory Jones actually believes or if it’s a parody of him, but then I remembered that conspiracy theories are like Rule 34: If you can create a theory as a joke, someone out there probably believes it.
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