tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post5728658426467874234..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 639: Juvenile tacticsCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56957547198315341132009-09-27T17:47:28.912-07:002009-09-27T17:47:28.912-07:00Hey, I hope that you were kidding when you wrote &...Hey, I hope that you were kidding when you wrote "Oh and fun fact randall, I know you said your joke is innaccurate but I would remiss if I did not point out that indeed its premise is also inaccurate; the Lincoln-Douglas debates were held in 1858 and were for Illinois's Senate election, an election which Douglas won, not lost. JUST SAYIN."<br /><br />Abraham Lincoln defeated Stephen Douglas in the 1860 presidential election. HTH.<br /><br />Also, you anticipated the right criticism of your attack on the 'your mom' joke, but you seem to have misunderstood how it applies - the fact that it's a particularly lame your mom joke is irrelevant. The reason the joke is that his skills entered a rapid decline is that he made a 'your mom' joke AT ALL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-36854203940951280712009-09-27T17:12:54.583-07:002009-09-27T17:12:54.583-07:00Not sure if anyone else has noticed this (don'...Not sure if anyone else has noticed this (don't see any comments mentioning it), but in the original, the line is "fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers...etc. etc", which means stick-douglas just replaced "fathers" with "mom". either that's the point of the comic, or the your-mom joke is even more hugely sucky and unfunny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-80253892415604587542009-09-27T14:36:29.928-07:002009-09-27T14:36:29.928-07:00also jesus mr cushtie, i am a political science ma...also jesus mr cushtie, i am a political science major, you fucking retardAsherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980842100786408132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-53253884494090513422009-09-27T14:35:22.806-07:002009-09-27T14:35:22.806-07:00Mr Cushtie: jesus, you are fucking thick
Amanda: t...Mr Cushtie: jesus, you are fucking thick<br />Amanda: thank god you have a brain<br />Mr Lostman: i came, i saw, i conqueredAsherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980842100786408132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-68671189685074043062009-09-25T15:10:03.438-07:002009-09-25T15:10:03.438-07:00Wouldn't it be easier to tell tho, he's ju...Wouldn't it be easier to tell tho, he's just Asher bein Asher. Always tryna stir shit up.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11192581573588205095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-38661196055252115802009-09-25T14:40:22.813-07:002009-09-25T14:40:22.813-07:00Hard to tell with the 300 post-count pledge.Hard to tell with the 300 post-count pledge.Mr. Lostmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06728949584810294355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-69805358242344236422009-09-25T14:32:25.252-07:002009-09-25T14:32:25.252-07:00I am pretty sure Asher was being sarcastic?I am pretty sure Asher was being sarcastic?Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11192581573588205095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-46028026021565749572009-09-24T22:52:05.951-07:002009-09-24T22:52:05.951-07:00No.
For a start, you should have typed "Its&...No.<br /><br />For a start, you should have typed "Its", not "It's".<br /><br />I'd typed up a lot more about intersubjective valuations of art, the possibility of aesthetic judgments on "purely subjective" qualities and primary/secondary qualities, but I suppose if you're not a liberal arts major, you wouldn't understand...Mr Cushtiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16692225606363497906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-35868029096164698422009-09-24T19:47:07.958-07:002009-09-24T19:47:07.958-07:00None of you get it. There is a joke in the comic. ...None of you get it. There is a joke in the comic. It's quality is subjective and therefore this blog is irrelevant.Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980842100786408132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-8909119751315699992009-09-24T19:45:53.444-07:002009-09-24T19:45:53.444-07:00Sounds pretty rampant.Sounds pretty rampant.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06037127857062536971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-47979821555542138982009-09-24T19:13:23.753-07:002009-09-24T19:13:23.753-07:00Obviously it's found funny be SOME people. You...Obviously it's found funny be SOME people. You just haven't demonstrated that those people are anything but mouth-breathing idiots, conditioned to like XKCD through a combination of rampant habitual conditioning and rampant pandering.John Magnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-41801747622336584552009-09-24T19:05:57.645-07:002009-09-24T19:05:57.645-07:00All I can say to that is that how funny something ...All I can say to that is that how funny something is is largely dependent on the person viewing it. If my first post is unable to show you why the comic was funny (or at the very least, was found funny by some people), then I can do little for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56230739414821268752009-09-24T18:12:55.671-07:002009-09-24T18:12:55.671-07:00Anonymous,
You've explained what Randal was d...Anonymous,<br /><br />You've explained what Randal was doing with the comic. Now can you explain the joke or why it is funny?Jonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9456072729279654432009-09-24T17:04:50.982-07:002009-09-24T17:04:50.982-07:00On the Gettysburg subject - Reunion and Finale = a...On the Gettysburg subject - Reunion and Finale = amazing piece!<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlg5t11efcEJonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-4337184718897038672009-09-24T17:01:54.759-07:002009-09-24T17:01:54.759-07:00Anonymous, you have opened my eyes.
Now, instead ...Anonymous, you have opened my eyes.<br /><br />Now, instead of seeing this joke as Randal trying to pass a yo-momma joke as original humor, I now see it as a failed emulation of Hark a Vagrant's mockery of historical figures.<br /><br />Let me tell you a joke:<br />A man walks up to another guy and says: "Did you know that three Brazilian soldiers died in the war on terror yesterday?"<br />The guy says: "Oh dear, that is truly horrible. We should have national day of mourning."<br />The man is shocked at how much emotion the guy is showing. Normally, the guy is quite placid.<br />"Oh and by the way" says the guy "How much is a Brazilian."<br />Oh yeah, and the guy is George Bush.<br /><br />As you can see, the joke falls flat on its face if you introduce the caricature after you tell the joke. If Randall had introduced Douglas before the yo-momma joke, the comic would at least be vaguely funny.Regularjoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14869331404768343684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-70002387941235624042009-09-24T16:13:16.082-07:002009-09-24T16:13:16.082-07:00gettysburg, dudegettysburg, dudershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-24128498416635860602009-09-24T16:09:18.587-07:002009-09-24T16:09:18.587-07:00Anonymous from before back...
Yes Carl... I read...Anonymous from before back... <br /><br />Yes Carl... I read the post I'm commenting on. I was simply noting that the joke works even though the debate occured in 1858. There is absolutely no reason we cannot assume (in the universe presented in this joke at the very least), that the humiliation of losing a national election to a person you had won a debate against two years prior, could cause someone to become increasingly juvenille in their tactics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-21844262265004734932009-09-24T15:38:29.365-07:002009-09-24T15:38:29.365-07:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQes9dvCJ34
"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQes9dvCJ34<br /><br />"hey, what if I pretended Hitler didn't kill himself and actually became a 'cupcakes and puppies' pacifist after the war?"almost anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-27858335235450979882009-09-24T15:27:30.270-07:002009-09-24T15:27:30.270-07:00Okay blogger does not like href links.
http://www...Okay blogger does not like href links.<br /><br />http://www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/Trade/productdetails.cfm?PC=19126Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17306181648318242064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-84114553125340289512009-09-24T15:26:25.901-07:002009-09-24T15:26:25.901-07:00The bbc did an audiobook of the Lincoln-Douglas de...The <a rel="nofollow">bbc did an audiobook</a> of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.<br /><br />I heard they were pretty good.Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17306181648318242064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-24555863137307650532009-09-24T15:20:29.509-07:002009-09-24T15:20:29.509-07:00Anon: You might want to look up in what year the L...Anon: You might want to look up in what year the Lincoln-Douglas debates happened. You might learn something.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-37071333417895410832009-09-24T14:23:32.592-07:002009-09-24T14:23:32.592-07:00Fernie, nice wall of text there. It has some yummy...Fernie, nice wall of text there. It has some yummy bricks.<br /><br />So, my pre-review comment on the comic of Wednesday... the joke is cool, not extraordinary, but not horrible, either. The alt-text is either a failed joke("F" = "EF", phonetically? Just... that?) or an unfunny lecture. Eyes rolled, but no bigger damage. My biggest complain: the art.<br /><br />Randall actually manages to make some nice shots in 2nd and 3rd panels, but his art is actually getting worse. I mean... in that last panel the hunter is thicker and the lines are irritantly "squiggly". And there's more of it around, the truck on the second panel is strangely out of place. The depiction of the shot on the third panel looks good, but it's barely redeeming. Really, I didn't think a stick figure comic could look bad, but Randall apparently is taking his effort on doing the opposite of improving.<br /><br />I must give my applause, it surely takes a lot of effort...Professional Molehttp://comic.guedesav.blog.brnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-64183746567831683572009-09-24T13:56:21.466-07:002009-09-24T13:56:21.466-07:00"In this posting, for example, you suggest th..."In this posting, for example, you suggest that the core of the joke is the your mom joke, while the caption underneath is simply to excuse Randall from actually having to write anything funny. However, what you fail to understand is that the joke is all in the caption."<br /><br />Of course it's a pretty convenient way to interpret the strip: "the joke is in the caption". The thing about Carl's reviews is not that he's trying to intentionally misinterpret the joke (I also had the same impression when I got here the first time -- now take a look at my posts!), but the scepticism that builds up as the strips get more and more mediocre leads you to see the comics differently. And knowing the recent history of jokes, it seems perfectly clear that it was the "your mom" joke that came first, not the "concept" of the comic. He thought up the joke, though it was worth using, created the (completely absurd and pointless) historical context for it and slammed the finished result onto paper.<br /><br />And EVEN if I try to think the joke as a surreal commentary on Douglas, it's just pointless. There's hardly any relevance to it. It's not clever, there's no wit in it -- it's just a "hey, what if I take a very well known and common figure and SUBVERTED IT???" concept, which isn't at all novel and needs a VERY good execution. It's not too far from a "hey, what if I pretended Hitler didn't kill himself and actually became a 'cupcakes and puppies' pacifist after the war?" joke -- it's insubstantial, and filling it in with a "your mom" joke does nothing at all. Yeah, I also fell on Godwin's Law, I don't care.Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-91855765294143443642009-09-24T13:27:07.498-07:002009-09-24T13:27:07.498-07:00Learn what? That Stephen A. Douglas was the Ron Pa...Learn what? That Stephen A. Douglas was the Ron Paul of the 1860 election?<br /><br />It was a less funny clone of the citation needed comic with a your mom joke. Period.<br /><br />This wasn't a gem, or a genius comic. It wasn't horrible, but it was lame drivel. Just like your retort.Capnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-27246976943187440982009-09-24T13:24:21.241-07:002009-09-24T13:24:21.241-07:00"This comic is simply diving into the absurd...."This comic is simply diving into the absurd. It takes a ridiculous idea (from a standpoint grounded in both fact and simple common sense), and lets it play out. One of the key tenants of humor is the unexpected- and one would certainly not expect a famous debator to reduce himself to such juvenille (and period innapropriate) tactics. The other main comedic device used is understatement, as I would say Douglas had undergone something slightly more serious than a decline if he was reducded to shouting your mom jokes in the middle of a solem address."<br /><br />Wow! Are you a detective??aloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318832080088871491noreply@blogger.com