speed bump

[Plane]

http://www.gocomics.com/speedbump

[Xavier_Onassis]

A rather baffling cartoon. Is it supposed to be funny or political?

[Plane]

http://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2011/11/17

[Plane]

Some things are only what they are.

As opposed to everything elese .

Is juxtaposition of incongruety enoough to be funny?

Or does some threat or insult  need to be there?

[Xavier_Onassis]

The first one you posted was just weird.The others were funnier.

I find political cartoons in South American newspapers to be the most baffling, as they are often plays on words in famous political speeches that Argentines (or whatever) know by heart and that I have never heard. Or symbols and references to places (Ituzaingó) where historical events happened that I have never heard of.

 

[Plane]

The first one you posted was just weird.The others were funnier.

I find political cartoons in South American newspapers to be the most baffling, as they are often plays on words in famous political speeches that Argentines (or whatever) know by heart and that I have never heard. Or symbols and references to places (Ituzaingó) where historical events happened that I have never heard of.

That is why I must envy you.

When I went to Spain I learned a few words that I mostly forgot again.

All explanations were breif and partial.

At least you can tell when there is a joke there .

[Xavier_Onassis]

Sometimes the joke is there.

What Argentines and Americans think is funny varies rather a lot.

There used to be a cartoon strip called Dr Merengue in which the doctor had an evil side to his split personality that would say nasty things after the Dr has exchanged some pleasantries with the other characters. His evil alter ego was often just cruel and nasty, not funny at all, at least to me.

http://www.historieteca.com.ar/Historietas/drmerengue.htm

On the other hand, Quino did a lot of really great cartoons with no dialogue at all.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090623061630/http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_07/uk/dires.htm

[Plane]

Chuckle-a-duck

http://chuckleaduck.com/

[Amianthus]

A rather baffling cartoon. Is it supposed to be funny or political?

Yes.

[Xavier_Onassis]

No one buys 50 gallons of 2%.

I don't see how this cartoon is funny, and I don't see the political point, either.

The others in the group are funnier.

[hnumpah]

No one buys 50 gallons of 2%.

I don't see how this cartoon is funny, and I don't see the political point, either.

Stop and think....what would 50 times 2 percent be?

100 percent...a whole.

Whole milk.

Get it?

[Plane]

http://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2011/11/12