OK, I'm a liberal, and therefore, a target of the drunk who draws this strip, but I don't get this. I usually read Mallard Fillmore, understand what point he's trying to make and then go on to wonder when and where this cartoonist suffered his head wound, but this time I am completely flummoxed.I take a back seat to no one when it comes to making sport of regional idioms, but the comedy here alludes me. Is it a liberal thing to go out for a coffee? If I drink coffee, as I do, does that mean I support health care run by insurance lampreys?
Really, this strip makes no sense. It's rarely, if ever, funny, but I can usually suss out whatever simplistic right wing talking point it's trying to make. This one, however, seems particularly obscure.
Does the use of an article mark one a Marxist? Does the omission make one slap a magnetic ribbon on the SUV and vote for the guy who pushes Creationism in schools?
Help me, friends. What the hell does this thing mean?
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It means the right wingers are really stretching to find new ways to divide us and make us fear our fellow citizens.
For the record, the way I say it is "I'm gonna have me a cup of coffee. Ya'll want some?"
Don't know where that fits on the Mallard Fillmore Scale of Ridiculously Bogus Tests of American Orthodoxy.
Don't look at me, I drink scotch.
Well, certainly the addition of the, "Y'all want some?" marks you as a flaming liberal, Dusty.
Well, since Bush trashed our economy, maybe he's pointing out that there are some states where people can afford a whole pot of coffee and some where they can only afford a single cup.
I don't really know. This strip ran in our paper years ago, and it was never funny then either.
Course, I'm a latte-drinking, Ecce-sandal-wearing (Birks are sooo last year), non-SUV-driving libruhl, so according to Mallard Fillmore, I'm intellectually deficient.
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