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Some Guy TT posted:And as long as I'm being spicy this take is dumb for the exact opposite reason. Guys who are popular with women are not guaranteed this popularity because women always make sensible decisions when it comes to selecting partners with good feminist values, as countless E/N posters can attest. e: holy poo poo that Family Circus continues its downward spiral into spite and hating children.
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Some Guy TT posted:Guys who are popular with women are not guaranteed this popularity because women always make sensible decisions when it comes to selecting partners with good feminist values, as countless E/N posters can attest. ![]() How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side It's weird how common missing children gags used to be, since IMO they are actually really bad taste. Somebody fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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![]() Both of these noises were incredibly predictable under the circumstances. How is Bernice the smart one in her friend group?
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Gunther seems more like an example of my argument than he does someone who would promote it. He's the most romantically successful character in Luann in spite of his total lack of redeeming qualities.
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you broke my grill posted:Snoopy getting that letter seems kind of tone deaf seeing as Hank Aaron got so many racist slur-filled letters when he broke the record. I'm not sure what the intent is but I guess the nicest interpretation was supposed to be Snoopy showing solidarity with him? I would assume so - just a few years prior, Schulz had added the first African-American to the cast (Franklin) and ignored threats from Southern newspapers to drop his strip if he didn’t remove him, so it’s hard to believe that he had malicious intent. At worst, I think it was just Schulz commenting on what was a huge story at the time. Keep in mind that this isn’t a one-off - this story lasted for at least a couple of weeks.
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What the hell was that War and Peace thing all about?
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EasyEW posted:Dok's "The Ultimate Cheat To Win" Duck (March 22, 1913)
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä We knew he was thickheaded but geez louise is this guy dumb.
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![]() Some Guy TT posted:Gunther seems more like an example of my argument than he does someone who would promote it. He's the most romantically successful character in Luann in spite of his total lack of redeeming qualities. ![]()
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bernice may well be the single least likable character in all this thread and buddy that is saying something
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kidcoelacanth posted:bernice may well be the single least likable character in all this thread and buddy that is saying something it's because she's intensified stodginess. everything in luann already has this patina of bland and pointless and she's supposed to be "the boring one" in that context
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I think if my life had gone slightly differently I would have had very dire Bernice energy in college and so, like Mo, I salute her as a comrade—mon semblable,— mon frère!
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kidcoelacanth posted:bernice may well be the single least likable character in all this thread and buddy that is saying something Dustin's dad would like her
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Haifisch posted:The point is that the comic is telling men it's cool to respect women, not that respecting women is an automatic pass to getting laid. (and in fact, the comic is also pointing out that treating women as vending machines for sex is bad) I didn't mention anything about getting laid and neither did the comic. It's obviously playing off these assumptions though as am I. I just don't like magical thinking when it comes to the belief that respecting women equals popularity with women although I completely agree that respecting women and not treating them as sex objects is indeed cool.
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Julet Esqu posted:
I mean her friend group includes Luann.
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox is no longer on gocomics? ![]()
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Some Guy TT posted:
man, shut up
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Ugh, what drama are people bitching about- oh it's someone actually doing the Nice Guys Finish Last routine in the year 2020.
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Some Guy TT posted:I didn't mention anything about getting laid and neither did the comic. It's obviously playing off these assumptions though as am I. I just don't like magical thinking when it comes to the belief that respecting women equals popularity with women although I completely agree that respecting women and not treating them as sex objects is indeed cool. Try digging upwards, my guy.
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Johnny Walker posted:Now don't you feel foolish. I'm on to you, Walker. EasyEW posted:Dok's "The Ultimate Cheat To Win" Duck (March 22, 1913)
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Discendo Vox posted:How long was this before Daffy? Looks like about twenty years, which puts Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny as immediately contemporary with Smokey Stover. One of the things I really appreciate about this thread is putting the early-20th century humor I saw in the early nineties into context. Looney Tunes were in pretty much constant TV rotation when I was a kid, but it's only now that I can see the legacy that they were building from.
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Zelda![]() ![]() Nemi ![]() Intet Nytt Fra Hjemmefronten ![]()
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EasyEW posted:Dok's "The Ultimate Cheat To Win" Duck (March 22, 1913) someone change my name to “hunk of quiet”
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Green Intern posted:Heimo doesn't deserve this. True, fortunately it seems he's gonna get free pretty soon.
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It's organized by Frank Castle tho
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:someone change my name to “hunk of quiet” Not "same hunk but growing"?
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Bruceski posted:Not "same hunk but growing"? mm, both are pretty good, yeah
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Julet Esqu posted:How is Bernice the smart one in her friend group?
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Rhymes with Orange![]() Get Fuzzy 8/6/00 ![]() Stephen Collins ![]() Brenda Starr 6/7/42 ![]() Not so much a "meet cute" as a "meet weird." And as a reminder, this guy Brenda is so gaga over posed as a criminal, beat her viciously, and humiliated her.... and she still doesn't know why. ![]() Smokey Stover 1/10/37 ![]() Edge of False Comparisons ![]() ![]() Very little, I'd say. ![]() "Hi, Mark Trail here with some interesting nature facts! There are no alligators in Malaysia -- in fact, they're entirely a New World species! You'd think maybe this guy would have learned something like that in six years of drawing me."
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I rrrrreally want that one reply to be "oh is that where it's traced from"
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The Far Side Pickles ![]() Zits ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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That first Zelda strip reading me for filth
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Selachian posted:Edge of False Comparisons My Lovely Horse posted:I rrrrreally want that one reply to be "oh is that where it's traced from" Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jun. 5, 1937)
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Nancy ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Vintage Valiant (Aug. 25, 1940)![]() ![]() Sorry about the rainbow effect around some of the text that's been happening. I'll have to see if I can fiddle with some settings to avoid that. I might try leaving the images slightly larger to see if that helps.
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