You mean we're not...
There was, when I was a young'un (and I know not of where it lived) a cartoon by the name of "The Numbskulls". A brilliantly silly strip in which the body of an indiscriminate gent was controlled, via a series of levers and pulleys, by a fantastically enthusiastic, but frequently ineffective workforce.

They would wind up his eyelids each morning, control the apparatus that would facilitate mastication (and no doubt masturbation as well, although this would have been a deeply inappropriate inclusion), and, effectively, be responsible for his every movement and action.

In my (admittedly very sketchy) memory, the inside of his head resembled the flight deck of a woefully inadequate space craft, with the captain sat on little more than a director style chair and his subordinates charging about around him pulling levers and pressing buttons. And in my young, impressionable mind, the insides of mine and everyone else's head was exactly the same.

It was, therefore, with no small amount of utterly crushing despair that I came to learn the truth about the human body. How could it be, I would cry, that we are little more than a hugely complex and miraculous collection of atoms that manage to form an immensely sophisticated being that has, through a combination of circumstance and good fortune, evolved over millions of years into a species that has lifted itself above the food chain to be by far the most dominant and powerful creature ever to walk the earth (*breathes*), and not, as my imagination would have me believe, just empty shells controlled by small cartoon-like fuckwits who derive comedy from their hapless blundering as they pilot each of us through our daily lives.

Sometimes life is so deeply unfair.
( Moey, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 11:56, 7 replies)

If memory serves
it was either The Beano or The Dandy.
I remember enjoying this one as well.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 11:58, closed)

T'were The Beano
Here's a classic example of these little beans

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(chili_kitten Cheese, peas and honey bees, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 13:05, closed)

I used to wonder...
...if the numbskulls themselves had tiny numbskulls controlling them and so on...and so on...
(davywavy, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 13:29, closed)

@davywavy
I began to ponder that one once, but my numskulls couldn't cope with it, so we all gave up and focussed our efforts on shiny things instead.
( Moey, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 13:44, closed)

God I'm sad...

But I saw on Q.I (so it must be true - ahem)that Thomas Edison, one of our greatest Inventors, actually believed that there were people like the Numbskulls in his head.

For a genius he sounds like a bit of a thickie
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 27 Jun 2008, 14:01, closed)

Yes!
This was in the Beano, which was bloody ace (although it's about a quid now - it was about 30p then). Calamity James was utter genius each and every week along with Alexander the Lemming (his sidekick). Aah, yes. Bash Street Kids as well. Ivy The Terribly was bloody gash usually, though. Eeeh.
( shadyron, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 15:05, closed)

*coughs* Riiiiiiipoff!!
Some Eddie Murphy 'comedy' has stolen the premise for t'Numbskulls.
Saw a trailer before whatever crap I watched recently at the cinema.

I'm not even going to IMDB it because it made me so angry in the first place. 'Dave' or Summat I think it's called?!

I'm going to have to E-mail DC Thompson and make them aware of this travisty...

...Whilst offering to represent them in any upcoming plagerism case (5%).

fucking Hollywood!
First Kingdom of t'shitty skulls now this.
(Teesside Arab You can't spell Mark hately without HATE, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 1:18, closed)