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Patrick Jean - Pixels

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Turn down the volume, the sound is "accurate", which is to say really painful

PIXELS by Patrick Jean.

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An ad for one of Baltimore's older jewelers, bringing together two of the city's favorite food spokes-toons
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For those ignorant of the lore of Charm City, that's Mr. Boh, of National Bohemian beer fame, proposing to the Utz Girl, hawker of Utz potato chips.
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Drawn-on Currency

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Eisenbrauns runs an annual Valentine's Day contest, write a love poem in any ancient middle-eastern language (Greek too!).  This year the third-place winner was remarkably amusing:

The Song of the Four Locusts
  She loves you
  Let us sing it twice,
  Even three times,
  She loves you.


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From The Onion:
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Representatives from the sports drink manufacturer Powerade announced Wednesday that Nisroch, the ancient Assyrian god of agriculture, has been resurrected from the depths of Assyro-Babylonian mythology to serve as the key marketing figure for their newest product, Nisroch: Eagle Heart X-TREME WHIRLWIND!.....

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Kool-Aid Man, Origins

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From the stained glass in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Troyes, France comes this stained-glass window, which broadly tells the story of Job*
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In the trefoil at the top of the middle window there is a piece of heraldry, perhaps the arms of the donor of the window.  It is quite plainly the Kool-Aid Man, about to pour a cold glass of himself.
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* The story of Job was in the news recently in reference to Pat Robertson's inane comments, since the only biblical character to make his "Deal with the Devil" was God, in reference to Job.

Flowchart as Humor/Epitaph

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This was published in the New York Times shortly after the death of Gary Gygax, an earlier example of what has become a somewhat common genre of humor.
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"Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth."
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