Are we having fun yet? Posted on 12/25/2009 8:23:55 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Are we having fun yet?
Perhaps the most unpopular story your humble correspondent ever wrote for NewsBusters was probably the one about Zippy the Pinhead. Most readers found it impossible to interpret Zippy into any form of reasonable thought. The main complaint being that Zippy was indecipherably confusing. Here are a few of the complaints from the previous Zippy story:
Sorry, this one Zipped right by me, over my head
that strip makes no sense at all...
Aren’t comic strips supposed to stand alone in their message and humor? Or is it just so abstract that it’s rendered ineffectual? The official site of the strip gives credit to my charge, as it actually has a tutorial to help people understand the strip.
The only true way to understand Zippy is to become as severely impaired cognitively as Zippy. No way I'm trying that!
Okay, I think I understand the complaints. However, since today is Christmas I hope, Dear Reader, that in the spirit of the day you will cut me some slack as I once again present another Zippy the Pinhead comic strip (below the fold). I found this one to be quite interesting because not only does Zippy's family bemoan the rapid decline of newspapers but Zippy the Pinhead also mocks the Huffington Post as a news source.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
PING!
YOW!
I thought we were talking about Obama.
Huffingglue Posters are series people.
“Life is a blur of Republicans and meat.”
I knew it was you as soon as I saw Zippy the Pinhead while scanning down the FR articles.
I’ve been a Zippy fan for years myself.
Merry Christmas PJ!
Zippy’s answer to depression was the “Jack and Zac”, Jack Daniels and Pro-Zac..
Zippy is my all time favorite, part of the allure is the ongoing whines of folks who can’t “understand” it.
Have any of you noticed the 40 foot tall Indian sculpture outside the smoke shop on I-44 northeast of Tulsa?
Reading between the lines, the author is mocking online news sources generally. That the author features HuffPo could be a direct insult (HuffPo is the worst), or a backhanded compliment (HuffPo is the least bad of all of them).
Wouldn't read too much into it either way.
“Sorry, this one Zipped right by me, over my head”
Seriously? These people didn’t get that strip? I guess it went over their heads because it wasn’t much of a jump...
Zippy is the in-joke of counter culture comics.
The squares aren’t supposed to get it.
This one is cute, but it’s been so long since I was in college, I’m almost surprised the ol’ pinhead still exists. Guess I shouldn’t be.
I have ALWAYS been having fun!
I’m just glad Zippy has not yet been replaced by Pelosi the Pinhead, Reed the Pinhead, or, my favorite microcephalic, Obama “The-Time-For-Talking-Is-Over” the Pinhead.
I thought Zippy the pinhead was in the White House...
if the RATS have lost Zippy, they've lost the war...
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