wikipedia:

The word pompatus has, because of its peculiarity and seemingly nonsensical usage, become a minor pop trivia icon. Wolfman Jack frequently referenced the phrase and there is a soundclip of him using the line within the song "Clap for the Wolfman" by The Guess Who. A 1996 movie titled The Pompatus of Love starring Jon Cryer featured four guys discussing a number of assorted topics, including attempts to determine the meaning of the phrase.[2] The line has been mentioned in various television show gags, including The Simpsons and South Park.[citation needed] It was the subject of the October 9, 2011 Over the Hedge comic strip.

Humor columnist Dave Barry frequently refers to the song line as a source of comedic value, particularly in his 1997 book, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. Pompatus is used by Michael Ondaatje in his 2001 book, Anil's Ghost. Stephen King uses the word in his 2006 novel Lisey's Story. Tim Dorsey uses the word in his 2010 novel, Gator a-Go-Go.

"Pompatus of love" was mentioned by Dan in Hellcats (episode 11) when he was talking to Marti.

Ha! Doonesbury comic strip features stupid things said by politicians every day. This made Sunday comics:

Say What?

""I'm very happy in my former life; we helped create over 100,000 new jobs.""
— Mitt Romney, several weeks ago

""We started a number of businesses, invested in many others, and that over all created tens of thousands of jobs.""
— Romney, several days ago

""Helped create and ran a company that invested in struggling businesses, grew new ones, and rebuilt old ones, creating thousands of jobs. Those are the facts.""
— new Romney ad

Well, us sexists need to stand together ya know!!
Though that comic strip did disencourage me from posting a longer opinion. I've never actually seen anything like that happen online but it really seems likely.
In reply to this comment by moodonia:
Thanks for the support! I wasnt sure if that was going to explode in my face but I thought I needed to stand up and be counted, so cheers! :

In reply to this comment by lampishthing:
Hear hear.>> ^moodonia:

I think this video is bang on the money pointing the larger hypocrisy in all this, and in particular the Dworkin-esque ranting that has been a staple of daytime tv since the 80's.
Recently two sportscasters made off camera sexist comments about the abilities of female referees, they both lost their jobs.
These five fuckwits are breaking their hearts laughing about a gruesome sex attack that almost resulted in murder, I assume they all still have jobs? I'm guessing the show hasnt been cancelled?
I find it very encouraging that people are calling them out on this, about time.
promote

Been there, done that. They do the same to me because I do things differently too.

Original comic strip: http://i.imgur.com/6ETb4.gif

*music

>> ^peggedbea:
Tuesdays my birthday.
send money for the slot machines and bourbon.
Gah, I hate these Christmas and birthdays so close to each other or on the same day. See XKCD comic strip about that: http://www.xkcd.com/680/ ... Mine is coming up soon.

Will You Be Celebrating Saturnalia This Holiday Season?

A celebration at this time of year is Saturnalia, one of the most popular Roman festivals. It was marked by tomfoolery and reversal of social roles, in which slaves and masters ostensibly switched places, with expectedly humorous results. Saturnalia was introduced around 217 BC to raise citizen morale after a crushing military defeat. Originally celebrated for a day, on December 17th, its popularity saw it grow until it became a weeklong extravaganza, ending on the 23rd.

The best exposition of Saturnalia has long been the Electric Sheep comic strip, but it's no longer easily available on the web, so here it is in a video created from the original website posted to Funny or Die.

*promote

aaaaaaaand there is this weird kid who always shows up in some of my classes. he draws the vaginas of various mammals all over everything. folders, jeans, shoes, textbooks, backpacks, whatever. brilliant beautiful mammal vaginas. like on walrus's and shit. i want that.

he also wears a tshirt he made himself. he took a white shirt and drew triangles. all over it. the shirt is completely covered in triangles of every size draw with a sharpie. i need him to have a triangle shirt.

and praying mantis's. because there arent enough "cute" praying mantis things about. its all ladybugs and butterflies and owls and shit. i think i want a comic strip of sorts... 3 boxes. beggining middle end. starts with 2 praying mantis heart bubbles and shit. then freaky mantis doing its. and ends with dinner . bloody violent gorey sexy praying mantis dinner. if youre witty you can think of some a caption. perhaps something about praying before dinner or something or sex before dinner. i dont know. someone should be clever with words.

and i have an ant trail tattoo on my wrist. i want ant trail tshirts. with some clever cynical political/social statement.

oh and before i stopped getting tattoos i was going to get to like fleshwounds with maggots in them tattoo'd around my tits. i think i want one of those shirts that are like the insides of the body, skeleton, organs, maybe some muscles... but i want maggots in there. like zombie anatomy.

>> ^ulysses1904:
Michael Moore is such a simpleton. He exemplifies everything I hate about television and mass media and socio-political discussions. And no, I'm not a conservative, I used to like Michael Moore. I bought his "The Awful Truth" series on VHS when it came out. But I now see his movies as cheap, manipulative, over-edited 4-panel comic strips, just like so much of modern mass media.
It was a tragic mistake when the police shot and killed Amadou Diallo. From what I understand his English wasn't all that great and was probably confused with what the cops were telling him to do. He pulls out his wallet and the cop nearest to him starts back-pedaling in panic, as he doesn't know what it is. And the cop trips as he is retreating and falls down violently. The next cop reacts instinctively, thinking the retreating cop sees a gun and is in danger. And he starts firing at Amadou. The other cops respond in kind, thinking that "these guys know something I don't, that this guy is a threat" and they start firing too. It all happened very quickly. Then when they find out it's a wallet and they misread the whole thing they are traumatized and shaken. Quite a different picture than that which I've heard described, which is a comic book image of grinning, evil, trigger-happy racist cops, standing over Amadou in a semi-circle, gleefully pumping bullets into his body and reloading and firing more and giving high-fives and smoking cigars and saying to each other "he got what he deserved for not obeying our orders".
But all these details I've just included wouldn't easily fit on a picket sign or be boiled down to a simple-minded protest chant.


Talk about anti-michael moore propogandistic reaction..

You claim to be an ex-fan of moore. I suggest that if anyone else had made this, you'd be laughing. It's not in the same vein as the stuff you claim to dislike about him, it's just good old fashioned humour.

I watched without bias, and i thought it was very funny. You're definitely anti-michael moore whether you admit it or not.

>> ^ulysses1904:
Michael Moore is such a simpleton. He exemplifies everything I hate about television and mass media and socio-political discussions. And no, I'm not a conservative, I used to like Michael Moore. I bought his "The Awful Truth" series on VHS when it came out. But I now see his movies as cheap, manipulative, over-edited 4-panel comic strips, just like so much of modern mass media.
It was a tragic mistake when the police shot and killed Amadou Diallo. From what I understand his English wasn't all that great and was probably confused with what the cops were telling him to do. He pulls out his wallet and the cop nearest to him starts back-pedaling in panic, as he doesn't know what it is. And the cop trips as he is retreating and falls down violently. The next cop reacts instinctively, thinking the retreating cop sees a gun and is in danger. And he starts firing at Amadou. The other cops respond in kind, thinking that "these guys know something I don't, that this guy is a threat" and they start firing too. It all happened very quickly. Then when they find out it's a wallet and they misread the whole thing they are traumatized and shaken. Quite a different picture than that which I've heard described, which is a comic book image of grinning, evil, trigger-happy racist cops, standing over Amadou in a semi-circle, gleefully pumping bullets into his body and reloading and firing more and giving high-fives and smoking cigars and saying to each other "he got what he deserved for not obeying our orders".
But all these details I've just included wouldn't easily fit on a picket sign or be boiled down to a simple-minded protest chant.



They fired 41 one rounds at him. That's an average to 10.25 rounds per officer. Obviously you can't fire 1/4 of a bullet, but still, that mean each officer had to almost empty his firearm while firing at one suspect. Now we all know he wasn't hit 41 times, and I understand the need to fire until the target has "gone down" but 41 shots is super excessive. Either these cops were trigger happy, or horrible, horrible shots and shouldn't be allowed to carry firearms because they are far more likely to hit an innocent bystander than anything they are aiming at.

Michael Moore is such a simpleton. He exemplifies everything I hate about television and mass media and socio-political discussions. And no, I'm not a conservative, I used to like Michael Moore. I bought his "The Awful Truth" series on VHS when it came out. But I now see his movies as cheap, manipulative, over-edited 4-panel comic strips, just like so much of modern mass media.

It was a tragic mistake when the police shot and killed Amadou Diallo. From what I understand his English wasn't all that great and was probably confused with what the cops were telling him to do. He pulls out his wallet and the cop nearest to him starts back-pedaling in panic, as he doesn't know what it is. And the cop trips as he is retreating and falls down violently. The next cop reacts instinctively, thinking the retreating cop sees a gun and is in danger. And he starts firing at Amadou. The other cops respond in kind, thinking that "these guys know something I don't, that this guy is a threat" and they start firing too. It all happened very quickly. Then when they find out it's a wallet and they misread the whole thing they are traumatized and shaken. Quite a different picture than that which I've heard described, which is a comic book image of grinning, evil, trigger-happy racist cops, standing over Amadou in a semi-circle, gleefully pumping bullets into his body and reloading and firing more and giving high-fives and smoking cigars and saying to each other "he got what he deserved for not obeying our orders".

But all these details I've just included wouldn't easily fit on a picket sign or be boiled down to a simple-minded protest chant.

Since this just happens to be up on the front page again, I'm going to shamelessly link to a parody that I recently posted that uses outdated newspaper comic strip characters.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Harvey-Award-Animation-Glengarry-Glen-Ross

I used to play doctor with the two neighbor girls in my apartment complex. I was about 7-8? Across the hall was Becky, a rather shy Mexican girl who told her mom what we were up to, which abruptly put an end to our make-believe injections. Below us, lived a feisty redhead named Kim, who taught me the word 'fuck'. We used to swipe her mom's Playboys, get naked in the closet and imitate the poses of couples we saw in a comic strip.

>> ^quantumushroom:
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/Shelton_C20070904.jpg


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/24/18485/2046

Mine requires reading comprehension.

To put it in comic-strip form, I'd say the bar is at the same low level, both animals trip over it, and the elephant says "because my side was higher, only you should have to resign!"

To which, the donkey says "HYPOCRITE!"

creepy beyond belief, your response typifies exactly what's mentioned in the article, and i quote "The fact that so many reflexively move to defend these light-hearted ads, comic strips, and so forth is just more proof of how insidious our ideas of gender relations are".

are you HONESTLY asking how this is misogynistic? did you watch the ad? did you read the thread? it's pretty fucking cut and dry, the guy treats his wife as though she is furniture.

i should have known better to post something like this to the sift, though. this place is a shithole when it comes to feminist issues.

^ I translated it. It's from a comic strip called "M" by a Norwegian cartoonist.