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Friday TOONs - Speaker Dope-Ra (Original Post) JHB Jan 2023 OP
The Dr Strangelove meme is great. TexLaProgressive Jan 2023 #1
Was Homer a Slim Pickens fan? KS Toronado Jan 2023 #19
Looks like it, thanks for the gif TexLaProgressive Jan 2023 #22
Great toons. dalton99a Jan 2023 #2
There is a real JR-15 Wee-1 Tactical rifle being marketed. It has a skull with a pacifier on it. Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2023 #3
I am going to be ill. niyad Jan 2023 #7
Brace yourself... Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2023 #8
Dear Goddess, what the FUCK is wrong with those people?? niyad Jan 2023 #10
The adult male market is saturated. Time to sell to the kiddies... Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2023 #11
And they are allowed to do so. Goddess forfend that we should interfere with niyad Jan 2023 #13
Not to worry! They decided to tone down the marketing! 😉 ShazzieB Jan 2023 #25
SMDH niyad Jan 2023 #27
In the police lineup, who is the person with the hoodie and Ray Bruns Jan 2023 #4
Santos? Wild blueberry Jan 2023 #21
Boltzmann Brain kick to Actually-Man. Kid Berwyn Jan 2023 #5
Thank you for this depressingly excellent collection. niyad Jan 2023 #6
Yay! Toons! planetc Jan 2023 #9
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2023 #12
India got COVID under control quickly, the hard way IronLionZion Jan 2023 #14
Thank you! 2naSalit Jan 2023 #15
McCarthy - Mouth of the Houth for two years jimmy the one Jan 2023 #16
Great toons, thank you. mountain grammy Jan 2023 #17
Thank you for the cartoons LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 #18
Thank you Wild blueberry Jan 2023 #20
Thank you for these excellent toons! ♥ CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2023 #23
Kicktoons Hekate Jan 2023 #24
What's that around Santos' face in the first one? ShazzieB Jan 2023 #26
I think it's an astronaut helmet JHB Jan 2023 #30
Oh, that makes sense! ShazzieB Jan 2023 #31
And Rachel Maddow joked, "after all, he was an astronaut". nt eppur_se_muova Jan 2023 #32
Kick burrowowl Jan 2023 #28
Thank you. murielm99 Jan 2023 #29

TexLaProgressive

(12,159 posts)
1. The Dr Strangelove meme is great.
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 08:56 AM
Jan 2023

For those who never saw the film.

Slim Pickens as B-52 Bomber pilot Air Force Maj. T. J. "King" Kong, in the 1964 movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,"

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,467 posts)
3. There is a real JR-15 Wee-1 Tactical rifle being marketed. It has a skull with a pacifier on it.
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 09:37 AM
Jan 2023

Thanks for the toons JHB!

niyad

(113,597 posts)
10. Dear Goddess, what the FUCK is wrong with those people??
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 10:05 AM
Jan 2023

And to think I once went off on toys r us for something called an uzi commando kit.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,467 posts)
11. The adult male market is saturated. Time to sell to the kiddies...
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 10:12 AM
Jan 2023

Gun manufacturers are following the same path as the tobacco companies. Once the primary adult market is saturated, you then start marketing to teens, or even younger.

niyad

(113,597 posts)
13. And they are allowed to do so. Goddess forfend that we should interfere with
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 10:18 AM
Jan 2023

the sacred free market.

ShazzieB

(16,543 posts)
25. Not to worry! They decided to tone down the marketing! 😉
Sat Jan 21, 2023, 12:01 AM
Jan 2023

They're still selling the gun, still marketing it for kids, but they decided to get rid of the skulls!

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vakd/the-jr-15-rifle-for-kids-is-back-without-baby-skulls-in-marketing-this-time

No more guns with skulls for kids...just guns for kids! Nice, huh?

Kid Berwyn

(14,980 posts)
5. Boltzmann Brain kick to Actually-Man.
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 09:52 AM
Jan 2023
The Boltzmann Brain Paradox: An Animated Thought Experiment About the Hallucination of Reality

A pleasingly disorienting foray into the fundamental perplexity of life.


BY MARIA POPOVA

You look at a tree. That tree is reality — part of some external reality, and partial to some internal reality of its own. But the tree you see is entirely your mind’s rendition of reality. Consciousness is both the projector and the screen, rendering something you comprehend as a tree. In an absolute sense, then, you can never be sure that the tree exists outside your mind — there can be no evidence of it, for you are both the evidence-gatherer and the evidence.

That is what a thought experiment known as the Boltzmann Brain Paradox explores, inspired by the work of the brilliant and tragic Austrian physicist and philosopher Ludwig Boltzmann (February 20, 1844–September 5, 1906).

Continues w/links to details…

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/05/boltzmann-brain-paradox/

IronLionZion

(45,547 posts)
14. India got COVID under control quickly, the hard way
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 10:46 AM
Jan 2023

the virus spread through their population quickly and ran out of new people to infect.

Sounds like China is getting it now.

GOP would probably put Putin on Defense and Intelligence committees.

jimmy the one

(2,708 posts)
16. McCarthy - Mouth of the Houth for two years
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 10:55 AM
Jan 2023

The Big Mouth of the Houth needs a colostomy bag to stick under his chin to catch what spits out of his big mouth on a daily basis.

JHB

(37,163 posts)
30. I think it's an astronaut helmet
Sat Jan 21, 2023, 08:30 AM
Jan 2023

McCarthy ridiculously put him on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

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