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[challenge entry] Almost as unfunny as the real thing


Man, I hate my work mouse. And I hate when my boss decides to walk back and forth in the corridor behind me. And I hate that I'm where that's even an issue. Oh well, if I keep reading B3ta, that may go away :)

From the The Daily Mail challenge. See all 248 entries (closed)

(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:36, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
Nicely!
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:37, archived)
# \o/
why are comic strips in papers so painfully unfunny?
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:39, archived)
# even more so if they involve animals
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:40, archived)
# the garfield strips where he is obese and cannot reach the floor are proof that you are lying
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:41, archived)
# when was garfield funny
even when you take garfield out, its still not funny
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:44, archived)
# ^ this. hard
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:43, archived)
# It's some kind of memetic disease.
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:45, archived)
# because the poor bastard that draws them
has to come up with six strips a week - and a double length strip on Sunday.

The hummus well is not bottomless.
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:41, archived)
# when have any of these EVER been funny:
marmaduke, george and lyne, fred bassett, hagar the horrible, love is...

I'd type more but I can't be bothered.
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:47, archived)
# Calvin & Hobbes
the exception that proves the rule?

EDIT: Bloody hell. If I'd scrolled down a bit more I may have avoided looking like a twat...
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:59, archived)
# Because they haved to be as generic and uncontroversial
as possible to avoid offending any readers.

Given how easily offended most newspaper readers seem to be, the results were inevitable.

And thus Charlie Brown was born.

I can't think of many exceptions but Calvin and Hobbes is one.
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:43, archived)
# I think Calvin and Hobbes is the exception
because Bill Watterson knew when to stop. Those cartoons were fucking aces.
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:44, archived)
# leave the words
"IF YOU ARE READING THIS THEN YOU ARE A MASSIVE CUNT" on your screen at 48pt.

That should sort things out. Woo to a dead fred bassett.
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:39, archived)
# very muchly true
need hamz though
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:39, archived)
# hah!!
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:46, archived)
# * votes for this *
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 17:54, archived)
# Fred is well funny!
you people just don't get it.
(, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 18:23, archived)