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B.C. comic "slams" Islam?

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hgc said:
I don't want to seem to quibble of trivialities, but this is getting me crazy.

1) This does not constitute evidence of any weight toward the accusation.

2) He possibly could have hidden this message, but before we go assigning any kind of probability, let's look at what was actually drawn.

3) The moon in the sky is used to indicate night. I think of using the outhouse at night as just a well established meme, and it's probably connected to the tradition of the crescent moon on the door. I'll repeat what I said above: Islam doesn't have a monopoly on crescent moons. Jeez, next someone will accuse the French of stealing the idea of the croissant from Algeria.

4) I've already explained about the SLAM. Many comic strip artists, and particularly Hart, use the same overall image for all of the panels in the strip, in this case the outhouse with the door shut. I assume this is for the convenience of not having to draw much to produce a new strip. But whatever the reason, he will use other techniques to convey action, such as "action" text between panels. This is the easiest way for him to convey that the character seen in the first panel has entered the outhouse. Why do you burden Hart with the responsibility of doing the strip a different way, just so the audience can't cook up an imagined insult, in a way he probably couldn't have thought of in advance?

So to your opening statement, I still see zero reason to believe that Hart is guilty. That's a lot less chance than "not the most likely."
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:) I suppose we'll just have to disagree. I've admitted that odds are, you are right. But I still think there's a good chance that it was a slap at Islam. Hart has a propensity to use religious symbolism and messages to express opinions; I draw my conclusions, I think, by looking at what was actually drawn; I think the moon in the sky is useless otherwise, since I don't associate outhouse use with the night-time; similarly with the use of 'slam.' However, I understand your disagreement. I don't understand why you feel so strongly about it, but I understand it.

By the way-- wasn't the invention of the croissant actually a slap against Islam? Invented by the Viennese to celebrate the defeat of the Turks?
 
Would you think the cartoon was funny if it were drawn by Randi? I myself see the humour in it. It is from the rediculous files, much the same as 'The Far Side' cartoons use the rediculous to achieve humour.
 
I'm reminded of all the weird letters Gary Larson got that are printed in Prehistory of the Farside, including the ones where readers thought that the dog was humping the car because he drew a transmission on the botom of the car.

Hart's an unfunny cretin; is there really reason to suppose more than that?
 
jimmygun said:
Would you think the cartoon was funny if it were drawn by Randi? I myself see the humour in it. It is from the rediculous files, much the same as 'The Far Side' cartoons use the rediculous to achieve humour.
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Yeah, except for the fact that The Far Side was often clever and funny, whereras B.C. has never been either
 
Nyarlathotep said:


Yeah, except for the fact that The Far Side was often clever and funny, whereras B.C. has never been either
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A vile canard.

I can remember that two or three times in the 1970s, B.C. was mildly amusing.
 
epepke said:


A vile canard.

I can remember that two or three times in the 1970s, B.C. was mildly amusing.
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Speaking of 1970's, whatever happened to "Wizard of Id"?
 
epepke said:


A vile canard.

I can remember that two or three times in the 1970s, B.C. was mildly amusing.
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Ah, due to the fact that even at the very end of the 70's I was only 12 and didn't read the paper much at that point in my life I must have missed those times
 
phildonnia said:


Speaking of 1970's, whatever happened to "Wizard of Id"?
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I still see it in my local paper. It is funnier than B.C. but that isn't saying much.
 
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