I guess I'll leave that joke about the Mexican Wave at the Tsunami benefit gig alone, then.

Justin from Queens wrote:I should be more clear. 160,000 dead on the shores of the Indian Ocean. While they're still burying the dead, someone makes this cartoon. The utter lack of any empathy is not funny - it's sickening. Understanding this, your analysis is irrelevant.

My question: Why should I laugh at this?

Get me now?

No offense, but it looks like a plane crash. If you think about that part of the cartoon, Frank should be assembling pieces of meat rather than whole corpses. Points deducted for failing to portray reality.

Anyway, no one's mocking anyone here, including the dead, although mocking the dead isn't itself necessarily a problem. This cartoon just isn't all that funny, though.

I like your tough empathy though. It's great. By the way, that 160,000 figure is low. Myanmar grossly underreported its casualties, and the Indonesian numbers look like they are above 200,000 alone. Wtf.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:No offense, but it looks like a plane crash.

yeah, smoke in the background of last frame. no water.

Myanmar grossly underreported its casualties, and the Indonesian numbers look like they are above 200,000 alone. Wtf.

300,000 total, probably....i don't think they've fully accounted for banda aceh, which is of course destroyed.

i would agree that the time has not come to make jokes about the tsunami, at least not in public

but the time will come. that's just the way life is.

some comedian, mainstream comic, made a joke about jfk's assassination the other day, and i thought 'wtf? jfk was our president, and he got his head blown apart in public. and we can joke about it! what a bunch of sick bastards we are!' it was not a funny joke, however. otherwise, i would never have had that thought.

Well, to cover my own ass, I wasn't joking about the Tsunami, more commenting on Justin of Queens hypersensitivity and lack of perception.

If you bother to visit the cartoonist's website, you'll see that the strip in question was drawn well before the tsunami tragedy, which I can joke about all I want cos I donated eleven dollars to a relief fund last night, you fuckers.

I was with some people on New Year's Eve who made some drunken tsunami jokes. They were related to a good friend, so I kept my mouth shut. But I quickly made my mind up about their character.

My heart is still breaking for the tsunami victims. Every day I look at the news and I think, my god it's no longer on the front page, hundreds of towns have been wiped clean and we only paid attention to it for two weeks. The company I work for, bless its heart, has offered to double any contribution to the cause made by us workers, and they'll have to pony up good when I bring in my receipts.

When I saw this cartoon I laughed until tears came from my eyes, and I forwarded it to friends who also laughed and laughed. Frank's behavior - and his friendly, innocent, giving-the-girl-a-flower smile when he says "especially not over there" - is stirringly inappropriate. Ha ha ha! It makes me laugh and laugh. I'm going to forward it to some more people.

spoot wrote:When I saw this cartoon I laughed until tears came from my eyes, and I forwarded it to friends who also laughed and laughed. Frank's behavior - and his friendly, innocent, giving-the-girl-a-flower smile when he says "especially not over there" - is stirringly inappropriate. Ha ha ha! It makes me laugh and laugh. I'm going to forward it to some more people.

Wow, they need to take sarcasm away from people like you.

notice this also: as frank has no ears, he also has no nose, which makes him "senseless," with the exception of his eyes and hands and taste buds, so maybe only 2/5 senseless, much as this conversation about the morality of joking the dead. to quote the episcopalean leader on my sinbox the other day, "stuff happens." in much respect to the dead, we are insignificant in this universe and only our ego touches us with overwhelming empathy, as this should just not happen to humans...there should be some warning system in place...the safest place during this event was underneath the ocean's surface say the divers..."those not busy being born are busy dying" sez bob dylan.

Joseph wrote:

spoot wrote:When I saw this cartoon I laughed until tears came from my eyes, and I forwarded it to friends who also laughed and laughed. Frank's behavior - and his friendly, innocent, giving-the-girl-a-flower smile when he says "especially not over there" - is stirringly inappropriate. Ha ha ha! It makes me laugh and laugh. I'm going to forward it to some more people.

Wow, they need to take sarcasm away from people like you.

And mom and dad should monitor your internet use, so what?


I saw the strip as a plane crash as well and didn't relate it to the Tsunami until it came up. I thought it was funny.



Faiz

Joseph wrote:If you bother to visit the cartoonist's website, you'll see that the strip in question was drawn well before the tsunami tragedy, which I can joke about all I want cos I donated eleven dollars to a relief fund last night, you fuckers.

actually you can't joke about it, cos as history has shown, you are just not funny. ya clown.

-jeremy