Comments on: Help me with a cartoon (again again!)

By: Gloria Weblog » Blog Archive »

Gloria Weblog » Blog Archive » — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:20:48 +0000

[…] Anyway, I’m inspired by Barry over at Alas, a Blog, who earlier in the week “asked the blog” for help, and got it. He was looking for ideas to round out a cartoon he was drawing, and he got some amusing ones from his dedicated readers. […]

By: Gemma

Gemma — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:47:14 +0000

Great blog, we all need to educate our kids on what they can apply on the skin. Be natural, feel natural!!!

By: Kija

Kija — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:42:44 +0000

By the way, I used to canvass for single-payer health care and heard many of those top tens. However, you are missing some great ones:

1) Underwriters and insurance brokers would be laid off, damaging the economy. (I responded, so we should get rid of the cars because they displaced blacksmith?)

2) If everyone had health insurance, there would be no incentive for diet and exercise. It encourages an unhealthy life style.

3) Universal health insurance would eliminate the incentive to work. (huh?)

4) With universal health insurance, even criminals and addicts get health care. That’s just wrong!!!

I could go on for hours listing the idiotic reasons people gave for opposing single-payer, though the most wicked (and only mentioned once) was the one from an idiot in Cedar Hills who said that one of the perks of her job was knowing that she got health insurance and folks under her at work didn’t.

By: Kija

Kija — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:35:46 +0000

Because you achieve better living through chemisty. Don’t you know that?

By: Kija

Kija — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:33:06 +0000

We only use carbon-based, therefore organic, chemicals.

By: Mikko

Mikko — Thu, 05 May 2005 22:06:50 +0000

Straight white men don’t wear makeup. (SWM: “So what’s the fuss about?”?)

Neither do straight black men nor bull dykes (stereotypically), but hey, it’s your meme, just blame the ones consistent with it.

By: Barbara Preuninger

Barbara Preuninger — Thu, 05 May 2005 21:35:34 +0000

Feel free to tighten the wording on the slippery slope comment, if you use it. You could probably take off the whole first half of it.

By: arbitrary aardvark

arbitrary aardvark — Thu, 05 May 2005 20:59:58 +0000

Phatal Attraction .. phatalities… something.

By: Brian Vaughan

Brian Vaughan — Thu, 05 May 2005 19:16:43 +0000

I think Barbara’s “slippery slope” one could use tighter wording. Aside from that, that one, and Omar’s “Why do you hate beauty?” are my favorites.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 04 May 2005 23:33:37 +0000

Oh man, everyone’s ideas are so great!

Not to be…umm…a stick in the mud, but some straight white males do wear makeup–at least some of the ones I know. Granted they’re all a little glam-goth, but ya know…

By: acm

acm — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:16:38 +0000

Well, I’m afraid I’m not up to the level of some of the excellent cynicism here. But I was thinking that a dismissive corporate line could be along the lines of “it’s not like you’re eating it!” (perhaps a variant of the “beauty is only skin deep” approach…)

By: Richard Bellamy

Richard Bellamy — Wed, 04 May 2005 14:01:51 +0000

Now that we’ve phased out the death tax, there is no longer a downside to dying.

By: Ol Cranky

Ol Cranky — Wed, 04 May 2005 12:09:04 +0000

Dupont says “better living through chemicals” the comestic industry says “more beautiful living through chemicals”

By: Ã–zgÃ¼r

Ã–zgÃ¼r — Wed, 04 May 2005 07:05:42 +0000

Because soon or later the free market will, entirely by itself, reach a balanced state in which only totally safe cosmetics are produced. There is no need for regulations.

By: Rana

Rana — Wed, 04 May 2005 05:30:02 +0000

Because without a truly free market, the economy as we know it would collapse.

Because it’s unpatriotic to deny companies the right to pursue their happiness.

Think of the CEOs! (Or shareholders.)

Toxic chemicals: not just for breakfast anymore!

By: LAmom

LAmom — Wed, 04 May 2005 05:25:53 +0000

I think Barbara’s “slippery slope” line is the best one.

By: Omar K. Ravenhurst

Omar K. Ravenhurst — Wed, 04 May 2005 04:18:18 +0000

Why do you hate beauty? (Guy in wifebeater: What are you, a lesbian?)

By: Larry Wright

Larry Wright — Wed, 04 May 2005 02:26:42 +0000

Because the DMCA* prevents this unwanted IP* disclosure

*(Digital Millenium Cosmetics Act)
**(Imminent Peril)

By: La Lubu

La Lubu — Wed, 04 May 2005 01:54:02 +0000

well geez, how will we know how dangerous those chemicals really are unless we start lathering them all over our faces? We’re doing this for Science!!

By: Sundre

Sundre — Wed, 04 May 2005 01:19:45 +0000

Who says natural is better? (Poison ivy is natural, but it’s hell on your complexion. )