Funniest Webcomics, Part 2 - 75% Humon Comics

[choxorn]

 

[Verarde]

 

[Fei Kelei]

Today's xkcd is brilliant:



"An 'American tradition' is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice."

 

[Mise]

Apparently the same isn't true in the UK. Here's the top 10 most played xmas songs in the UK between 2003 and 2008:

1. Last Christmas - Wham! - 1984
2. Do They Know It's Christmas? (original 1984 recording) - Band Aid - 1984
3. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - 1987
4. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey - 1994
5. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen - 1985 (1934 orig)
6. Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie - 1980
7. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard - 1973
8. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade - 1973
9. Lonely This Christmas - Mud - 1974
10. White Christmas - Bing Crosby - 1941

so...

1990s: |
1980s: | | | | |
1970s: | | |
1960s:
1950s:
1940s: |

People who were kids in the 1970s and 1980s would have been in their 40s and 50s in the 2000s, so this makes sense, given how much those people spend.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

In our case, the people making these decisions now were kids in the 1980's, at the time when Baby Boomers had reached the age to make those decisions, so . . .

 

[classical_hero]

It is almost as if the baby boomers are giving everyone else the middle finger.

 

[uat2d]

Apparently the same isn't true in the UK. Here's the top 10 most played xmas songs in the UK between 2003 and 2008:

1. Last Christmas - Wham! - 1984

Funny thing, it seems that the only xmas song I have ever heard was that one.

You tell me this isn't the one and only thing that truly defines xmas:


Link to video.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Spoiler :

That's a great one, maybe not hilarious, but still.. Does it have any underlying meaning or is it just supposed to be a trippy version of Charlie?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Good grief, I thought I wouldn't have to explain this one.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Well, can you?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

If you honestly couldn't tell, it was just playing with Charlie Brown's common catchphrase, putting it in a much darker context than it is usually seen in. Seriously, I still can't believe I have to explain this. Now I'm depressed.

Anyway, contributing with a comic.

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[Heretic_Cata]

And a bonus comic:

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[SS-18 ICBM]

"Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken."
-Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, Looking God in the Eye

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[lkjggfs]

Is it just me or there way less SaTW?

 

[W|M]

Speaking of SATW:

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The butter crisis in Norway is the source of much amusement.

A Danish morning show did however send a big donation of butter to Norway, so they can keep going for a bit longer.

Humon just posts comics a lot less often these days.

 

[choxorn]

Which probably means we'll need a new title for the next thread.

25% Humon, 25% SMBC, 25% Penny Arcade?

 

[Cutlass]

Now that one was funny.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[classical_hero]

Yeah some of the more recent SATW just have not been that good, so it good to see one up to scratch.

 

[Terrance888]

Norwegian Marked or Market?

Otherwise, it's great!