Not Me!, Comrade
It's always grand when the News & Observer does my work for me. They think the Keanes may be Communist propagandists. MaryAnn thinks they are a cult. Theories abound.
From the N&O:
Matt from Raleigh asks, "Why are people worried by Funky's lack of humor lately when we have far more important issues: Family Circus. It's never funny and I often find myself wondering if I missed some special pun because that day's comic is so utterly pointless. Perhaps I don't understand the relentless quaintness of it."
The N&O goes on to examine a recent panel: "Caption: "Stop laughing, Billy! I HAFTA walk like this 'cause my bathin' suit is full of SAND."
"Note the seemingly gratuitous capitalization of "HAFTA" and "SAND." Could it be that they are not capitalized for emphasis, but rather that they are acronyms intended to send a veiled message? Might "HAFTA," in fact, stand for "Horrible American Free Trade Agreement," and SAND for "Socialists Advocating Negative Development"? Add the symbolic shovel and pail, the hammer and sickle of youth and --"
Read the whole article here.
From the N&O:
Matt from Raleigh asks, "Why are people worried by Funky's lack of humor lately when we have far more important issues: Family Circus. It's never funny and I often find myself wondering if I missed some special pun because that day's comic is so utterly pointless. Perhaps I don't understand the relentless quaintness of it."
The N&O goes on to examine a recent panel: "Caption: "Stop laughing, Billy! I HAFTA walk like this 'cause my bathin' suit is full of SAND."
"Note the seemingly gratuitous capitalization of "HAFTA" and "SAND." Could it be that they are not capitalized for emphasis, but rather that they are acronyms intended to send a veiled message? Might "HAFTA," in fact, stand for "Horrible American Free Trade Agreement," and SAND for "Socialists Advocating Negative Development"? Add the symbolic shovel and pail, the hammer and sickle of youth and --"
Read the whole article here.
posted by big al at 9:39 PM
3 Comments:
Are you sure NandO isn't in on the joke and pulling the other reader's legs? People can be pretty gullible (which isn't even in the dictionary) and someone is having fun with someone here, but I can't tell who with whom.
It's actually a humor column they run every day. From time to time they give hell to the terrible comics.
With any luck, the reader who wrote in knows what the column is all about.
Hi Big Al! Did you notice that Jeffy is getting tortured again today? I'm not sure what he did to annoy the cult Leader so much. If he were older, I would think it was Oedipal. Thanks for the link, you're lucky to have a real newspaper. The Rochester Dem & Chronicle runs Brenda Star, for heaven's sake.
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