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Unread 21 Nov 2003, 20:17   #1
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Unread 21 Nov 2003, 20:19   #2
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
ok ok, man goes into a toilet....and theres a big black momma in there, and he goes head first in, and....well...realises its smells.
What do I win?
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Unread 21 Nov 2003, 20:44   #3
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
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ok ok, man goes into a toilet....and theres a big black momma in there, and he goes head first in, and....well...realises its smells.
What do I win?
that wouldn't be funny.
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Unread 21 Nov 2003, 20:45   #4
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it would be if you were the toilet, cus you knew it, and no one else would and youd laugh to yourself cus you knew this guy got stuck in this black momma...
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Unread 21 Nov 2003, 20:47   #5
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Someone goes into that toilet (little hut thing) and says 'Is it just me, or does it stink in here?'
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
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it would be if you were the toilet, cus you knew it, and no one else would and youd laugh to yourself cus you knew this guy got stuck in this black momma...
i was going to add "There's obviously no wrong answer"

good thing I didn't, because apparently there is.
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Someone goes into that toilet (little hut thing) and says 'Is it just me, or does it stink in here?'
whats the joke? or, what's the point?

why the ' slam', all the moons, etc?
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where does it say that the comic is funny?
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Unread 21 Nov 2003, 20:50   #8
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Its a bad cartoon.
Stretching far out my capabilities i think that he shat there and he was wondering if the horrible smell is due to his "offspring"
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
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where does it say that the comic is funny?
i never said that. i just said that it was likely there was intended to be some point to the cartoon...
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
perhaps by what's said it's implying there's more than 1 person in the toilet and that would be funny, if i were twelve

ps i think 'slam' is onomatopoeia and suggests he closed the door and went inside
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
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perhaps by what's said it's implying there's more than 1 person in the toilet and that would be funny, if i were twelve

ps i think 'slam' is onomatopoeia and suggests he closed the door and went inside
why did he slam the door?

is he angry?

Do you feel like you are missing something?
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because slam is a widely accessible word which indicates the closing of a door- really i feel youre stupid for visiting shit websites
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
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because slam is a widely accessible word which indicates the closing of a door- really i feel youre stupid for visiting shit websites
what shit websites have i visited?

the comic is in most high circulation newspapers throughout the US.

And do you seriously see no possible allegorical interpretation of a cartoon with no obvious joke and six crescent moons in three panels?
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i jsut saw it for what it is. i think smells are funny.
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whats the joke? or, what's the point?

why the ' slam', all the moons, etc?
The slam is, I think, just the door being closed.

The moon is a common "decorative" motif on outhouses.

The joke, as such, is just that it obviously is him; as he's the only one there.

I suppose you could view the outhouse w/crescent moon as a middle east/Iraq metaphor, but that might be overanalyzing.
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
The Crescent moon obviously represents Islam, and the nasty smell refers to the horror of terrorist acts committed in the name of Islam. The cartoon is reminicent of Luthers 95 Theses, only in a more modern context, and opposed to Terrorism rather than selling indulgences.

Or maybe it's just a bad comic, who knows?
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
k.

I'm starting to see the "the guy is obviously alone, but he still wants someone to blame the stink on" interpretation, but I think it's a stretch.

Note that this guy has done cartoons showing the symbolic overtaking of judaism by christianity in the past, and has religious overtones in many of his comics.

And the word 'slam', which seems kind of strange, is shaped into an 'I'.
I+slam = ?

But I was told of that interpretation before I looked at it, so I was biased. Hence me asking yinz.
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The man goes in there and finds a dead body thats been there for a long time. In a truly amusing , but very sick way, he looks at the body and asks it "Is it just me or does it smell in here".

Frame 5 (not shown) is where he laughs heartily , or has sex with the corpse. Im really not sure where the artist wanted it to lead.
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I+slam

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I never thought I would see a worse comic than Kura's.. I'll now proceed to rip my eyeballs out.

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The BC comics tend to have more moral of the story or life lesson to them then rip roaring funny.

This one is proably no need to state the obvious.
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Re: Interpret This Cartoon
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And the word 'slam', which seems kind of strange, is shaped into an 'I'.
I+slam = ?

I SLAM,
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It's a racist cartoon implying that black people talk to themselves and smell funny.
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