tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post8321339659699323192..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 617: Current Events Are Always FunnyCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-27150658332761331942009-08-04T20:26:40.343-07:002009-08-04T20:26:40.343-07:00Mildly, mildly amusing.
How would Randall draw a ...Mildly, mildly amusing.<br /><br />How would Randall draw a black person, anyway?Joehttp://youtube.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-15478171068273069872009-08-04T14:29:46.381-07:002009-08-04T14:29:46.381-07:00didn't you see the picture? They're all wh...didn't you see the picture? They're all white people.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-627736054915231562009-08-04T12:55:36.384-07:002009-08-04T12:55:36.384-07:00It should have just been Obama and Gates in jail a...It should have just been Obama and Gates in jail and the cop walking off into the sunset. White people don't go to jail..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-32949489804817870752009-08-03T16:33:57.661-07:002009-08-03T16:33:57.661-07:00I found the punchline annoying in the sense that I...I found the punchline annoying in the sense that I'd seen it done to death already on late night television. The consensus amoung the hosts seemed to be that if you got a police officer, a professor, and the president of the united states together and put a beer in each of them, wacky hijinks would ensue. David letterman did a night where that was basically his only joke. Stephen Colbert did a joke along the lines that they would go and take a dump on Joe Biden's lawn.<br /><br />I'm not saying that randall stole this joke from somewhere, I'm just saying that its a ridiculously easy joke to make, and he didnt even do anything with it to differentiate himself from the pack. Where he should've said "wowee, if you get beer in the president and that professor and that police officer, X will occur," X being a wacky hijink of questionable legality, he said "wowee, if you get beer in the president and that professor and that police officer, a wacky hijink of questionable legality will occur." What hijink? "I dunno, but I bet it would be something. Something bad enough to get them in jail!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-72105746414279147862009-08-03T16:22:48.232-07:002009-08-03T16:22:48.232-07:00I knew what The Little Prince was, so this one mad...I knew what The Little Prince was, so this one made me sad. Although why didn't he cover his flower? If he's watering it, why isn't there a watering can in his hand? Also, he looks weird in stick figure form.<br /><br />-CuddlefishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-73253978690288794812009-08-03T10:31:42.264-07:002009-08-03T10:31:42.264-07:00Re: referring to bad movies, well, think of the po...Re: referring to bad movies, well, think of the positive part. It could be worse. It could have been Armageddon.Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-90143117858096893722009-08-03T10:29:48.462-07:002009-08-03T10:29:48.462-07:00"The alt text... yeah, brings to mind another..."The alt text... yeah, brings to mind another one of his fanfics that was not so well received."<br /><br />As painful as it is to remember that five part atrocity... Yes, so true.Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-20508269527059670522009-08-03T06:17:46.283-07:002009-08-03T06:17:46.283-07:00Yeah, even though the book was written quite some ...Yeah, even though the book was written quite some time ago, I've never heard of it, so the "joke" sailed right over my head.<br /><br />Also, Randall's not winning any points for referring to a bad movie and failing to make a joke at its expense, since the joke is "Oh my god you guys what if it was the same asteroid?" and nothing on Deep Impact itself.<br /><br />Randall would be funny if he'd take a page from Hussie's book and mock the premise of bad movies, not write fanfics of their plots.<br /><br />http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001921Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-27594295455059821492009-08-03T02:10:14.891-07:002009-08-03T02:10:14.891-07:00god i fucking hated that east-west comic
very nic...god i fucking hated that east-west comic<br /><br />very nice guest post regarding critique of the comic. but uh maybe consider a bit the first two paragraphs that anon5:21 wrote.<br /><br />Asher: I tend to skip over what Fernie has to say so your little poem had probably the same effect on me that it would have had if you were able to post a bit earlier! So I offer encouragement and my amused laughs.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11192581573588205095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-2596012663391184882009-08-02T23:24:23.334-07:002009-08-02T23:24:23.334-07:00I would personally prefer a Deep Impact / Fresh Pr...I would personally prefer a Deep Impact / Fresh Prince crossover.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07658641232170030818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-78778637175396912392009-08-02T22:11:58.333-07:002009-08-02T22:11:58.333-07:00I have a friend who loves the little prince, so I ...I have a friend who loves the little prince, so I hope he can point out the humor in this new comic, as I can't find it myself.<br /><br />And yeah, the alt text is just explaining the joke/reference.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16146459274295885156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-30441583698058691532009-08-02T22:11:08.459-07:002009-08-02T22:11:08.459-07:00@9:48
I suppose the joke is that Little Prince is...@9:48<br /><br />I suppose the joke is that Little Prince is a story about an adorable little boy living on an asteroid and doing wacky and cute stuff. Deep Impact is a disaster movie in which the good guys have to destroy an asteroid before it destroys the Earth. So what if those two asteroids are in fact the same asteroid?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-91147759191940954882009-08-02T21:48:06.138-07:002009-08-02T21:48:06.138-07:00I cant say 618 was terribad, simply cause I had ne...I cant say 618 was terribad, simply cause I had never heard of the little prince before, so the possible joke went over my head.<br /><br />It is at least not as bad as anything from the last two weeks<br /><br />The alt text is explaining the joke. and at the same time is the punch line...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-19212603052714937542009-08-02T21:38:18.747-07:002009-08-02T21:38:18.747-07:00618 felt similar to the one where the protagonists...618 felt similar to the one where the protagonists are freaked out by the windmills and Don Quijote appears in the last panel to fight them. The alt text... yeah, brings to mind another one of his fanfics that was not so well received.zomg first!11noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-29516507566004755362009-08-02T21:30:29.628-07:002009-08-02T21:30:29.628-07:00@Carl: AARGH I remember a while back that I was ab...@Carl: AARGH I remember a while back that I was about to complain about you complaining about "political humour" and now it all comes back and yeah. I wouldn't say this was "political humour", rather humour about a political event: it's a rather nitpicky distinction, you might think, but the point is that it (like the oath one) doesn't rely on a political viewpoint. Thus I don't think it breaks the stricture he set himself. Doesn't mean it ain't rubbish in other ways, and I appreciate it's wishy-washy, but still.<br /><br />@Asher: related: in primary school (elementary) we studied a poem of which the last three lines were "and all dad will do is slurp/and when i can't think of a rhyme/i set about making them urp"Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-1242246183769973792009-08-02T21:29:10.294-07:002009-08-02T21:29:10.294-07:00Funny, the comic didn't smell of "I'm...<i>Funny, the comic didn't smell of "I'm out of ideas, folks!" to me; it in fact felt like the exact opposite. Unfortunately, it was a quite lame idea.</i><br /><br />I have no idea what those sentences, taken together, mean at all.John Magnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-47616890908606018692009-08-02T20:33:20.818-07:002009-08-02T20:33:20.818-07:00remember guys: Randall doesn't like to talk ab...remember guys: Randall doesn't like to talk about politics in xkcd! Only when he's desperate, I guess.<br /><br />Remember the presidential oath comic? A similar one in many ways:<br />-Black people drawn as white<br />-Not funny after a few months when everyone has forgotten about the meaningless incident<br />-not funny to begin with, actually<br />-taking a situation which could be important (high status racial profiling case, new president and new direction for country) and finding the dumbest, least interesting and least informed or intelligent way of making fun of some tiny detail.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-80768179431538844772009-08-02T20:32:07.791-07:002009-08-02T20:32:07.791-07:00In all fairness, it took me a while to figure out ...In all fairness, it took me a while to figure out the rhyming words, so I posted it not knowing Fernie had taken the wind out of my sails.Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980842100786408132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-19027917496482902252009-08-02T20:21:25.661-07:002009-08-02T20:21:25.661-07:00@Asher: you know, that would have had a lot more e...@Asher: you know, that would have had a lot more effect if you'd posted it BEFORE he said he thought the review was extremely good.<br /><br />As a kid, I was always deeply scared of the "it is now safe to turn off your computer" screen. Bright orange on stark black... brr. Not pleasant.Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-35219396120538693642009-08-02T20:15:57.583-07:002009-08-02T20:15:57.583-07:00How "excited"?How "excited"?Mr. Lostmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06728949584810294355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-75395792832690067382009-08-02T19:43:01.258-07:002009-08-02T19:43:01.258-07:00Microsoft Windows startup screens deeply excite me...Microsoft Windows startup screens deeply excite me.Lomptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00366919143911517051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-40555778043680286792009-08-02T19:41:36.749-07:002009-08-02T19:41:36.749-07:00I do not like critiques when humorous.
I do not li...I do not like critiques when humorous.<br />I do not like critiques when serious.<br />I will not take them lumpa or carl.<br />I will not take them, only snarl.<br /><br />I will not take them good or bad,<br />Despite a comic so damn sad.<br />No fan I am of reviews at all!<br />-FernieAsherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980842100786408132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-32553777612368450552009-08-02T19:39:22.705-07:002009-08-02T19:39:22.705-07:00By the way, did I make it clear enough? I think th...By the way, did I make it clear enough? I think the review was extremely good. But I wonder if I should be saying "This review is horrible! Where is the joke? Where is the punchline? Isn't this blog supposed to be FUNNY?"Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-80871261793198012812009-08-02T19:37:08.553-07:002009-08-02T19:37:08.553-07:00Funny, the comic didn't smell of "I'm...Funny, the comic didn't smell of "I'm out of ideas, folks!" to me; it in fact felt like the exact opposite. Unfortunately, it was a quite lame idea. Matter of fact, I think the execution is actually very good -- the images, the pacing, the timing and so on -- but the idea is void and full of holes, might even raise a chuckle at first glance but leaves you with that vague feeling of "... wait a minute, what WAS that?" later on. In retrospect, it's just lame; and xkcd's best strips are exactly those that remain funny no matter how many times you go back to it. I don't think Randall would *choose* going for a "it's just funny for the first five seconds, and then you forget it" joke, so I can hold this as a clear sign of decline... if I could care about that.Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9861805652062474362009-08-02T19:33:22.785-07:002009-08-02T19:33:22.785-07:00This review pleases me.This review pleases me.Mr. Lostmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06728949584810294355noreply@blogger.com