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  • The Meh · 1 year ago
    Did he really just think 'penis!' when he first saw Mario? I don't know if its more weird that way or if he put enough thought into it to come up with it.
  • The Meh · 1 year ago
    Forgot to say, I like the 'boring rabbit' game in her hand. I've never noticed that!
  • Philip Horger · 2 months ago
    Based on my experience with this type of person, what actually happened is that some moral crusader by day/homosexual by night sorta person immediately thought of the "connection," wrote an uptight article about it, and then Fairbanks read it and internalized its message as if it was his own opinion.
  • chris sucks worse than ATHF · 1 year ago
    I heard you were an asshole whenever anyone criticized you, but WOW......... Free speech ends wherever a liberal gets their feelings hurt. I'M GONNA COMMENT ON EVERY PAGE TOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's called FREE SPEECH, hippie. (i assume this is included w/ flag burnings?)

    ps. how does someone disagreeing w/you make them a terrorist? that seems hypocritcal, even for a liberal.
    pps. every post will have some new insult for an ARAB-HATING terrorist. seems fair. (equal air time)
    PPS. This joke doesn't make sense/rip off from every other gaming comic out there.
    ppps. I watch the Colbert Report. the only difference is that its funny, you're not.
  • Chris Crosby · 1 year ago
    The joke doesn't make sense AND it's a rip-of of every other gaming comic out there?

    I guess there are a lot of identically-nonsensical gaming comics out there.
  • Amused · 2 weeks ago
    My GOD you're annoying. And that's just me using my free speech right there. =P

    Carry on.
  • the new debater · 1 year ago
    do you underestimate just how many gaming comics use "mario's creator (Shig-something) was on weed when he came up w/him?" + the tube thing=sex comics?
  • Chris Crosby · 1 year ago
    1.) Yes, I did (I don't read many gaming comics). 2.) That wasn't the joke we did. The joke is that Fairbanks is raving mad. 3.) Why would Mario's creator need to be on weed to come up with a plumber who slides through tubes? Seems like a natural to me. Plumbers work with tubes.
  • the new debater · 1 year ago
    I know it wasn't. Mario jokes SUCK. I'm talking about [Italian plumber rescues princess from green turtle dragon/ape in tie, using flowers to shoot fire, grow big, etc.]. It is everywhere in everygaming comic out there. even I know that & this is teh only one I read.} (my grammar si sucking because how terrible these mario jokes are).

    you forgot "+ the tube thing=sex comics?"
  • Chris Crosby · 1 year ago
    Again, we're making fun of conservatives and their need to see sex in everything. It has nothing to do with Mario. It could've just as easily been about Sonic The Hedgehog and rings or whatever.
  • My bad, diablo · 1 year ago
    insanity is never funny. unless you are talking about religious people.
  • The bird is the word) · 1 year ago
    the point is, you used Mario. i called you on it and mentioned the other popular mario joke to prove how unoriginal you were. you missed this. I like to do this w/sex & fundamentalist religious conservatives (you forget or were never told i'm an atheist) too. a lot. that's just you agreeing w/me. (don't deny it.) good talking to ya.
  • Chris Crosby · 1 year ago
    It's not how unoriginal your Mario reference is, it's what you do with it.
  • King Me! · 1 year ago
    Still, I can only see Mario + tubes = sex so many times before getting bored with it. It's not the content of the joke; it's just that I can only stomache it for so long before using "blaaarg."
  • Chris Crosby · 1 year ago
    Wait, who else did a "Mario + tubes = sex" joke?

    And did they do it before or after March 19, 2004?
  • Dear Abby: i'm a troll · 1 year ago
    I'm not entirely sure I remember this one about WHO did it. Anyways, we're digressing because I simply mentioned that because you said that weed thing was the joke that you didn't do + Mario jokes are easy and are frequently terrible. (I'm lying; they are ALL bad).

    PS. What's your favorite moniker of mine? (I need to know which ones not use...)
  • Chris Crosby · 1 year ago
    All of them.

    And it's not really a Mario joke. It's a Christian conservative joke using a Mario reference.
  • Dick (Cheney) · 1 year ago
    A Christian joke featuring Mario is still a Mario joke.
    (It's nice to know you believe in punctuation)
  • Chris Crosby · 1 year ago
    When Mario can be removed from the joke without any significant changes, it's not a Mario joke.
  • The Mortician. · 1 year ago
    Then why use it? You just said it's not funny. (I paraphrase a lot).
  • The Meh · 1 year ago
    Considering the setting is a video game shop it would make sense to have Mario.
  • Affordable SEO Services · 1 year ago
    This is funny.I like Mario games also.
  • TrollSlayer · 1 year ago
    A personal opinion is NOT a criticque.
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  • Jigsaw · 1 year ago
    Notice Fairbanks's facial expression in the third panel doesn't resurface for the rest of the comic.

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