Well, I guess that’s why they liked to stick heads on poles in the middle age:
“My favorite kills on the far right, in the middle there’s the standard carnage and on the far left mainly collateral damage.”
I’ve checked my favorite daily strip after reading the news about that 6 year boys funeral who died by a bullet from a mad teen. I have a hard time to find anything funny here today. It is just not working for me. It’s always a very thin line you walk on with these topics.
Understandable, but as someone who had a family member on campus during the Virginia Tech massacre, I found this funny, especially since that saying Adam is making fun of has been around much longer than me.
I’m reading a book about a rescue mission toward the end of World War II, and one passage struck me. As one of the few survivors staggered out of the plane wreckage horribly wounded, he looked up at the burning plane with his dead friends and muttered, “Hell of a way to spend your birthday.” One of the other survivors thought he was talking gibberish, but it turned out it actually was his birthday.
While timing is obviously important, humor is our best defense against despair and horror. We should never forget that.
Very true. I’ve always said that people undere severe stress, like combat operations, either go crazy, or develop a wicked sense of humor. (Or, in my case, both).
From my “interesting in the Spockian sense” experiences aboard an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin, one day, when everything was seriously going to ‘stuff’ in a handbag, the wry comment from one of my buddies was, “Sanity is highly overrated!” And yes, we did manage to get the fire in our computer room put out….
Don’t worry Adam, it worked for me. There have been bloody rampages since the first protohuman looked at the thingbone of an antelope and thought “Hey, I could do something with this.”
As a guy with a history degree (which makes you the best educated fry cook at McDonald’s) I think the average person would be shocked by how common rampages are through history. I still find the famous quote you’re riffing off “Slay them all, God will surely recognize his own.” damned chilling, and an example of how lovely religion often is in human affairs.
Keep up the great work on the best strip online or on paper!
I was okay with “thingbone.” And I agree. There’s always been rampages. Apparently there is less rampaging now than there has been in history. I appreciate dark humor. It puts things into perspective. And that last panel was great.
Well, I guess that’s why they liked to stick heads on poles in the middle age:
“My favorite kills on the far right, in the middle there’s the standard carnage and on the far left mainly collateral damage.”
I’ve checked my favorite daily strip after reading the news about that 6 year boys funeral who died by a bullet from a mad teen. I have a hard time to find anything funny here today. It is just not working for me. It’s always a very thin line you walk on with these topics.
The mad teen needs to be in the “No good sons-o-bitches” pile!
Unfortunate timing, Laz, but that’s beyond Adam’s control there.
Understandable, but as someone who had a family member on campus during the Virginia Tech massacre, I found this funny, especially since that saying Adam is making fun of has been around much longer than me.
I’m reading a book about a rescue mission toward the end of World War II, and one passage struck me. As one of the few survivors staggered out of the plane wreckage horribly wounded, he looked up at the burning plane with his dead friends and muttered, “Hell of a way to spend your birthday.” One of the other survivors thought he was talking gibberish, but it turned out it actually was his birthday.
While timing is obviously important, humor is our best defense against despair and horror. We should never forget that.
Very true. I’ve always said that people undere severe stress, like combat operations, either go crazy, or develop a wicked sense of humor. (Or, in my case, both).
From my “interesting in the Spockian sense” experiences aboard an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin, one day, when everything was seriously going to ‘stuff’ in a handbag, the wry comment from one of my buddies was, “Sanity is highly overrated!” And yes, we did manage to get the fire in our computer room put out….
Of course, one must take the example of the king of bloody rampages: Sterling Archer. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5cR-WiGKZtg
Don’t worry Adam, it worked for me. There have been bloody rampages since the first protohuman looked at the thingbone of an antelope and thought “Hey, I could do something with this.”
As a guy with a history degree (which makes you the best educated fry cook at McDonald’s) I think the average person would be shocked by how common rampages are through history. I still find the famous quote you’re riffing off “Slay them all, God will surely recognize his own.” damned chilling, and an example of how lovely religion often is in human affairs.
Keep up the great work on the best strip online or on paper!
That would be “thigh bone”, not thingbone. 😉
I was okay with “thingbone.” And I agree. There’s always been rampages. Apparently there is less rampaging now than there has been in history. I appreciate dark humor. It puts things into perspective. And that last panel was great.
If it was a ‘thingbone’ he probably thought, ‘It’s clobberin’ time!’
Best. Comment. Ever. ;-))))
Interesting to note that God is left handed (left mandibled?). I wonder what that means for the various passages that refer to the right hand of God.
He’s just ambidextrous… it comes as part of the omnipotence package.
God is Omnipotent, why not Omnidextrous too?