Seriously: what are they talking about? OK, yeah, some people like to give names to their cars, but what is this weird superstition around choosing the wrong name? Where outside of this comic strip do people have this discussion?
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What does it matter what you name your car? This is the Funkiverse. Fate's going to slap you down no matter what you do.
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Attempting to avoid ones inevitable fate is a serious transgression. I believe this trebles the damages.
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Funky you're fate is in the hands of person who just had you talking for two days about naming his car. You are doomed no matter what you do as no doubt for his final strip prior to retirement he'll kill you all -(see John Darling).
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Really? TWO days (and counting) on naming a car so utterly bland as a white Volvo station wagon? Way to phone in the empty filler, Bat Hack. And I mean empty. This dreck doesn't even qualify as "joke a day" material. "Diabolically clever," my ass.
So if you are keeping score – No plot advancement. No joke. Just a big ol' steaming bowl of WTF. And speaking of WTF, wait until tomorrow.
I just think it's very interesting that BatYuck would choose to spend (at least) a whole week on a riveting arc about what some 50+ year old crashing bore of a guy names his crashing bore of a car. (At least of the "crashing" part comes true, we'll get some satisfaction.)
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"If," not "of." Goddam iPhone.
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Volvos are very safe in crash tests, so I guess that part makes sense. "Vendo" may be a better name for the car.
Has Batiuk ever conversed with another adult, other than his partner on Crankshaft? No one has these type of conversations.
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How much you wan to bet Crazy got a free bowl of soup with that hat?
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Snowball. That's asking that car to run of a steep hill and crash in a fiery wreck, the way Aldo's did in "Mary Worth" six summers ago. All I can say is "Oh no."
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I notice the car has already lost it's sparkle. Must have figured out it's new owner is a putz.
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Is…is Harry's use of "Diabolical" supposed to mean "Hell," hence "A snowball's chance in Hell?" Is that the joke?
I guess I don't know the reasoning process of a guy named "Crazy" who named his daughter "Mad." ("Maddie" is the cutesy version.)
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BeckoningChasm…that never dawned on me about "Mad"-die's name.
Diabolically clever!
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Batiuk keeps teasing us with these angles, but I still don't see Funky's new car plowing him and Crazy down. Funky, just name your car something cutesy like "Clunker" and get it over with already.
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Why not name it "Christine"?
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"No fate is going to slap someone down for naming their car 'Snowball'." That just might be the stupidest sentence ever written in the English language. Ever. Period.
"That is diabolically clever." TB, quit trying to insert a laugh/respect track into your strip.
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looks like there about to kiss in first panel and in window reflection in panel 2
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…….again, TB actually gets paid for this ?
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Diabolically stupid, too.
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Harry: "So, did the answer come to you in a dream?"
Funky: "No, I was just snacking on some Hostess treats."
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Sourbelly, I started to read your "No fate" comment and that pounding music started up and I thought, "No fate but what we make" and then I saw Terminator 2 populated with the FW cast. Oh my GOD I do NOT have enough alcohol in the house…BANG BANG BANG BANG-BANG. BANG BANG BANG BANG-BANG.
I'll be back.
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Fate might not slap him down, but I sure would.
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Batiuk is messing with us sadistically again, just like the entire week in February he devoted to the late Darin's and Tony's argument about online vs. paper calendars. "Try snarking on this, you snot-nosed punks!"
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I guess I'm the only one who chuckled that Funky named his car after a sex act (DO NOT google it).
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In Soviet Russia, car names YOU! Makes as much sense as this strip, funnier too.
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This comic strip isn’t right. It isn’t even wrong. If it were diabolical in any way, it would at least be interesting. Calling it banal would be an insult to banality.
Feh!
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He actually gets paid for writing this? Unbelievable.
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@Helskor — "…the late Darin." No doubt. Hey, does this breakfast pizza taste funny to you…?
@Jimmy — HAAARRRFFFFF…. Telling us not to Google it is like me telling everyone not to read Wankerbean ahead. Or scratch poison ivy. Needless to say, to late. I will never be able to un-read that.
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@Jimmy – see, for example, the movie "Clerks".
Today's strip has made me want to chuck my grub all day. Naming the car was pretentious enough, but then having to name it takes it to another level. However, the notion of "fate" as some sort of petty demon that smacks Westviwers around is rather appealing. Especially since Funky is apparently so jazzed on weird sex and narcotics that he thinks the proper magic car name will protect him from the evil "Fate". That kind of resoning is on par with the greatest thinkers of the fifteenth century. Actually what this whole line of diabolical bullshit reminds me of is a comic book. NotBatman or any of that rubbish, more of a Prince Valiant without the hair.
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