If you know about furries, you’ll get this one. If not, skip to the next cartoon.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Oh I get it, Ted, I just don't think it's really all that funny. It's slightly amusing in a British sort of way. Nice try!
A shiver of disgust went down my spine as I read this.
Yech
Disgusting.
I have a bad taste in my mouth frm reading this cartoon.
Ted, for what mallet-concussion-induced reason did you bring up this filthy topic?
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My friend wen't on a date with a girl who brought him home afterwards. She went into the bed room and came back in a bear suit. He said he didn't boff her, but I don't believe him.
Is David Carradine gonna enter into this discussion somehow?
There's even a level lower than this…
"Right Wing Christian Furries"… I sh-t thee not, Ted. They do tend to be the enemies of the "Zoophiliac" ones, but their social/political attitude masked in religious venom makes them far viler. Of course they all supported Dubya, even as many got laid off the sh-t jobs they worked in RL and cyberbegged online while looking for other sh-t jobs, and they still support him now and think Obama's the AntiChrist…
Personally I got a new phrase I'm trying to inject into the GroupThink… Like someone about to start a new job as a slatherer at the late night gay massage parlor to eat, but they get a call as they are going to work and their master's degree actually paid off and they get the good job…
"Run like a bunny at a FurSuit lifestyler convention!"
No comment on this cartoon. But it reminds me to ask you about your take on the Massachusetts cops issue and Obama's 'handling' on this matter.
I remember you mentioned about voting for Obama after giving a thought on your local black neighbours or fellow riders on Subs.
Are you disappointed particularly on this matter?
Tsk tsk. As any furry would tell you (I haven't asked, just heard), it's NOT about sex!
Also, Anthrocon (the largest furry convention in the US) makes its home every summer in Pittsburgh. Downtown is kind of amusing for a few days a year.
when I read the title I started laughing because I was sure there would be a reference to that creepy part in Kubric's The Shining dealing with 1920's era furry hijinx.
I did appreciate the obscure Samuel Becket reference in panel 3, though!
And I got to laugh cuz some book referred to rhizoids last night, and I did not know what they were.
Furverts.
Ted, Why exactly did you bring up furries? Please do elaborate.
Y_S
"Right Wing Christian Furries"…
Please. It's "con-fur-vatives".
Um, researching back to primary sources seems to indicate that "furries" are people who like comic strips about talking animals. Like, say, Pogo or Bloom County. Egad.
Some tiny but measurable number of them like to dress up like Snoopy and Woodstock and do the wild thing.
I bet more people, in terms of absolute numbers, fuck while watching the Simpsons. And yet people do not make jokes about it.