The first one: The Flying Spaghetti Monster thing has been around for what, a decade now. It’s a pretty blatant rip-off of a joke.
@ DemetriosX – Perhaps, but I’m not sure that anyone has quoted pastafarian acolytes like this before.
Wow, that background doesn’t remind me of a Waffle House at all.
Anyway, “Don’t propose at Waffle House” is probably good advice for several reasons (unless that restaurant holds a special meaning in your relationship).
Yeah, I think there is some accomplishment in hitting three spots economically – – Noodles are ramen, traditional “Amen” is contained in there, and subliminally the Sun God Ra.
Well, at least she’s not bouncing around all over the place because he proposed at the IHOP.
Actually… when was the last time anybody seriously used the phrase “male chauvinist pig?”
Actually… when was the last time anybody seriously used the phrase “male chauvinist pig?”
The last time she burned her bra.
@ MiB – I was wondering what she would have done during the recent (temporary) name change (to “IHOB”), but the term “hob” (for “stove element” or “gremlin”) is probably too unfamiliar in the US to produce a good joke.
P.S. I agree with Bill; the term (MCP) is so dated that it took me a while to parse the caption correctly. Even worse, the inconsistent (partial) “igpay atinlay” encoding made the conversation very hard to read. Those two strikes taken together with the fact that systematic underpayment of women is nothing to joke about makes me think that this comic should have been sent to the bleachers.
Not a Waffle House. No cop car lights flashing outside.
One never knows what the proposee will do. We were on a trip to Canada and Robert decided that it would be romantic to propose in Quebec (sans ring – which did not matter to me, I just didn’t want anyone to think he schlepped the ring to Canada with him, he had not bought it yet). He did. My response – “Okay,where are we going to tell my parents the friends we are suppose to be traveling with were when you proposed? ”
On our way home we stopped in the town of Lake George and by the lake, he again proposed. Same response.
I thought the last cartoon was a brilliant reductio ad absurdum of the feminist claims about the “wage gap”. Given the almost universal poor state of corporate morality, if the reasoning depicted had any plausibility at all, the workforce would be almost 100% female.
WHAT? You’re telling me it’s a PRO-feminist cartoon? In that case, it’s a failure in every way. It’s dated and obscure, as Kilby points out. But more importantly, it just repeats a propaganda point in a way that will have no effect on those who have already been indoctrinated, but will undermine it in the minds of anyone who has any understanding of economics or human nature and who is bright enough to follow through a couple of steps of reasoning.
A veritable ‘own goal’, as we say in Britain.
(If you want to see someone who really can follow through many steps of reasoning and see the consequences of policy changes, watch Karen Straughan run rings around Mike Rugnetta here: https://youtu.be/lj_kMe8RKE4?t=54. The core of the argument ends at about 18:28.)
Comics I Don't Understand 
The first one: The Flying Spaghetti Monster thing has been around for what, a decade now. It’s a pretty blatant rip-off of a joke.
@ DemetriosX – Perhaps, but I’m not sure that anyone has quoted pastafarian acolytes like this before.
Wow, that background doesn’t remind me of a Waffle House at all.
Anyway, “Don’t propose at Waffle House” is probably good advice for several reasons (unless that restaurant holds a special meaning in your relationship).
Yeah, I think there is some accomplishment in hitting three spots economically – – Noodles are ramen, traditional “Amen” is contained in there, and subliminally the Sun God Ra.
Well, at least she’s not bouncing around all over the place because he proposed at the IHOP.
Actually… when was the last time anybody seriously used the phrase “male chauvinist pig?”
Actually… when was the last time anybody seriously used the phrase “male chauvinist pig?”
The last time she burned her bra.
@ MiB – I was wondering what she would have done during the recent (temporary) name change (to “IHOB”), but the term “hob” (for “stove element” or “gremlin”) is probably too unfamiliar in the US to produce a good joke.
P.S. I agree with Bill; the term (MCP) is so dated that it took me a while to parse the caption correctly. Even worse, the inconsistent (partial) “igpay atinlay” encoding made the conversation very hard to read. Those two strikes taken together with the fact that systematic underpayment of women is nothing to joke about makes me think that this comic should have been sent to the bleachers.
Not a Waffle House. No cop car lights flashing outside.
One never knows what the proposee will do. We were on a trip to Canada and Robert decided that it would be romantic to propose in Quebec (sans ring – which did not matter to me, I just didn’t want anyone to think he schlepped the ring to Canada with him, he had not bought it yet). He did. My response – “Okay,where are we going to tell my parents the friends we are suppose to be traveling with were when you proposed? ”
On our way home we stopped in the town of Lake George and by the lake, he again proposed. Same response.
I thought the last cartoon was a brilliant reductio ad absurdum of the feminist claims about the “wage gap”. Given the almost universal poor state of corporate morality, if the reasoning depicted had any plausibility at all, the workforce would be almost 100% female.
WHAT? You’re telling me it’s a PRO-feminist cartoon? In that case, it’s a failure in every way. It’s dated and obscure, as Kilby points out. But more importantly, it just repeats a propaganda point in a way that will have no effect on those who have already been indoctrinated, but will undermine it in the minds of anyone who has any understanding of economics or human nature and who is bright enough to follow through a couple of steps of reasoning.
A veritable ‘own goal’, as we say in Britain.
(If you want to see someone who really can follow through many steps of reasoning and see the consequences of policy changes, watch Karen Straughan run rings around Mike Rugnetta here: https://youtu.be/lj_kMe8RKE4?t=54. The core of the argument ends at about 18:28.)