So by the time I got a look at today’s strip, there were already seven comments, any and all of which were better than anything I could say about this weird, stupid, unfunny “comic”. Yup, Funky’s got nothing better to do than vex and annoy honest working people, much like Les was seen doing during his book tour.
Wishing the readers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2013!
Son of Stuck Funky 
WTF? Plenty of mailed items make it next day within a reasonable distance.
And is Harry alluding to postal worker’s propensity for workplace violence/meltdowns? Classy.
Oh, and Happy New Years people. The bourbon is kicking in.
TB is just mailing it in.
Rusty: New Year’s Day is a Federal holiday, so no mail delivery. Funky was asking for the impossible just to be a complete dick to people who don’t have the most enviable of jobs to begin with.
So now Batiuk is writing not one, but two of the most hateful specimens of humanity to grace the comic strip pages, and I’m including Marvin and all those snooty assholes in 9 Chickweed Lane. That’s an accomplishment of sorts, I guess.
“As a former mailman, you’ll like this.”
“Um, thank you for feeling the need to remind me of the job that just fired me.”
“No, no, as a former mailman who knew me in high school whose name is Harry, you’ll totally like this!”
“Why are you so weird, Funky?”
“NO! As a former mailman who knew me in high school whose name is Harry who loves Tarzan comics you will think this is a SCREAM, trust me!”
“I’m leaving.”
“ARRRGH! Come back, former mailman who knew me in hi-”
**SLAM!**
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“Whew! I knew that’d drive him away eventually.”
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I guess Harry’s wife and kids are spending the New Year alone.
And now we get back to THIS stupid storyline again.
Personally, I wish that Batiuk would be canned by year end.
So Funky asked whether the package would get there by New Year’s Day and the clerk said No. No harm was done, no heads were messed with.
It would be as if, say, somebody walked into a pizzeria and asked whether they had deep-dish pizza and the fat old guy who owned the place said No.
Yawn.
Proper (and only possible) response from Centerville postal worker: “There’s no mail delivery on national holidays like New Years Day, you retard. Even fourth graders know this. Will you need stamps today? No? Okay, get the fuck outta here, dickface.”
Messing with them?? How?? It’s not like he has the authority to order them to work New Years Day. THEY know they won’t be working January 1st, so why would they give two shits about what he says or asks? Batboy is making no sense today.
And why is Beardo warning Fatfunk not to joke around with Postal Workers? Will they take a dump in his package? Run over it in the parking lot? Fill him full of hot Postal lead? Sorry, nothing about today’s strip makes sense.
And I can’t believe we’re still stuck on Crazy Harry issues. Booooooooooring.
So was Funky f*cking with the USPS as a show of solidarity on his pal’s behalf, or is being a smart-ass jerk-off something he does as a matter of course? Because there is a difference. But either way it’s not nearly as funny as he seems to think it is.
Harry’s ominous remark: a throwback-style “deadpan” satirical FW gag or an insensitive reminder of workplace violence? Ahhh, just kidding. Nice to see that Harry losing his mailman gig hasn’t stopped the dusty old postal worker jokes, isn’t it?
For some reason, I’m reminded of interactions or jokes that seem really, really funny when you’re drunk or high, but aren’t the least bit amusing or even remarkable when you’re sober.
“So will it get there tomorrow?”
“No. We’re not in operation tomorrow because it’s a holiday.”
Heheh! I sure showed them there!
As an addendum, here’s something Bill Cosby said that’s appropriate for this strip:
Christ, it doesn’t link properly to the right spot in the video. Go to 3:37.
I wish you’d screencapped those 7 comments, because they seem to be gone. I wasn’t even aware Comics Kingdom had mods, given the bickering that goes on over there.
Geez, that must be an awful job.
(Also, I hate to be that n00b, but I am. Does anyone know why my Gravatar stopped appearing?)
TFH sez: not sure why the Gravatar isn’t showing up. The seven comments I mentioned were the first seven on this page; since I couldn’t see the strip ahead of time and write my post, I just put up a placeholder link and the post went live at midnight.
Wow, a reference to workplace violence – neither funny nor thought-provoking. Bravo, Batiuk.
Happy 2013, everyone! I like the confetti drop on the banner, TFH.
2013 – the year of Crazy Harry, former mailman. Looks like we have a lot to look forward to this year. Have a happy one, everybody!!
@Inkwell: Were you the one with the frazzle red-haired female, with the expression of having just read Funky Winkerbean?
This is a comic strip on which someone needs to take a red pen and write “careless” across the entire top of the comic strip.
Really stupid the way Flunky REMINDS Beardo that he’s a FORMER mailman. “Hey, I went to see some of the people the Post Office decided to keep, which by the way doesn’t include you. How’s that minimum wage job with no benefits working out? You know, the one with the guy who owes me three years of rent?”
Wow, a joking reference to violence in the USPS workplace—a topic ripped from the headlines, ¼ inch and—what?—3 decades from reality!
Canning’s too good good for this guy. Caning! Now, that’s the ticket for this kind of “writing.”
I thought they shut down the local post office.
@S. P. Charles, he went on down to Centerville’s PO.
Well, this carcass of a strip has been picked clean, so I’ll just wish you all a Happy New Year!
So we have the possibility of an interesting story line with whomever is on the phone, and instead that goes nowhere so we can get Flunky and Harry sitting on a couch boring us. Great “writing”.
So Funky has no problem driving over to Centerville to mail one package, but Crazy can’t drive over there to work every day? Stop messing with our heads, Batiuk.
@Señor Tortilla- Never thought of it that way, but yeah. XD After a while I changed it to some kind of ferret-creature holding a book because that was the avatar I used on another comics site.
By the way, TFH, love the new banner!