Posts Tagged ‘humor’

Lester & Charlie – Bailout Bandwagon

March 8, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Lester & Charlie lend their expertise to solving the financial crisis.

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What would it take…

March 2, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

…for liberals to actually get up and move to Canada, as they’ve been threatening to do for decades? Lester & Charlie try to answer that question…

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The tea party Tea Party

February 25, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Ted McCagg is a former advertising creative director that posts daily drawings on the Web. This one cracked me up.

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Laid Off: Vacation day

February 18, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

Let’s visit our cartoon friend Odd Todd again, in Vacation Day. More Odd Todd here, here, and here.

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More “Laid Off”

February 15, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

There’s an endless party of CrunchBerries, SpongeBob, and air guitar going on over at Odd Todd’s place as he issues– in the form of another web cartoon–a state of the union report, on the one-year anniversary of his lay off. Click on the image to watch. Laid Off: Annual Report

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Laid Off: A web cartoon

February 11, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

It’s been five months since we visited the web cartoon “Laid Off” by OddTodd. Here’s another installment called “Help Wanted.” Click on the image to begin. Laid Off: Help Wanted

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“The economy is so bad…”

February 8, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Let’s start the week with a little severe-economic-downturn-humor, courtesy of Maxine, found via the blog Economists Do It With Models. Think Jay Leno after he’s really given up… More bad-economy Maxine here…

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Star(bucks) watching

February 4, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

From The Unemployed Life on Recessionwire:

The Starbucks Guide to Job Status (Andrew Lipstein)

Roman bath houses, or thermae, were massive public spheres (the Baths of Diocletian covered almost one and a half million square feet) that served as public gathering spots for every cross-section of society. Today, we have Starbucks.

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Economic song parodies

January 21, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

More economic song parodies by Marcy Shaffer of the web site Versus: You’ve got the Fed (sung to the tune of “You’ve got a friend”) Lyrics: This is when. From your den. You call men. Who then all call Ben. Squeal you’re breakin’. You’re caught in the red. Too big to croak ’cause markets could [...]

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FARK headline of the year contest

January 4, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Fark.com is a “news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership, from which we hand-pick the funny and weird notable news — and not-news — of the day.” The article headlines are re-written in a cheeky and/or satirical style. The site’s headline [...]

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