Welcome to The 3^2-th Carnival of Comedy
Short intro this week and yes I know the carnival is later than advertised. And for good reason. What is the good reason? Exactly.
We are asking for constructive criticism on the entries this week, so I numbered the entries to make it simpler to reference the ones you are giving the critique of.
The object here is NOT TO CRITICIZE SPACEMONKEY. Simply put, I can’t take it. I can however, dish it out.
Constructive criticism is what we are looking for here.
If you as a submitter to the carnival don’t want to read criticism of your work, don’t read the comments.
If you as a reader love an entry, comment in both places assuming they have comments.
Surf with care this week as I have not previewed all the posts for content. There may be some profanities or vulgarities might encounter that there are no warnings about. I wanted to review them for the first time after posting the Carnival.
Ok short intro got long. Several multiple submissions this week. On with the Carnival of Comedy #3^2 i.e. 9. Now with more and improved reader feedback!
1) Dana at Northshore Politics says criminals need to just Curl up and dye She submitted it twice for good measure.
2) Loren Kohl at Almanac of the Mundane presents a news satire piece, Darwinists agree to end evolution
3) Bill C at Brain Droppings presents The Boy hunt continues….
4) Gullyborg at Resistance is futile! presents The Montana Free Zone
5) a4g at Point Five presents Bush to Unveil New “Border Defense” Policy
6) Mama Duck at Texas Ducks presents Holy Crap or “She’s Pooping the Distance!”
7) Ironman at Political Calculations presents Differences Between You and Your Boss
8) Steve the Pirate at Steve the Pirate[net] presents I’m a Genius
9a) Holly Aho at Soldiers’ Angel – Holly Aho presents The 101 Things E-4 Skippy Can’t Do While in the Army and
9b) The Woman Who Stole a Dead Cat
11) Peemil at Where are my socks? presents What to do if the television eats you and puts you in a porno movie.[adult themes and artwork]
12) Dr. Phat Tony at Dr. Phat Tony’s presents A Softer Side Of Phat
13) Jason Pomerantz at Fiddle and Burn: A Daily Comic Strip in Prose presents Jesus vs. Superman
14a) David at satire presents Larry King, Serial husband, monogamous Polygamist and the joys of multiple fatherhood [Images Probably Not Work Safe] and
14b) Michael Jackson Wins 4 Official and 1 Unofficial Oscar Verdicts (Part 1) [Images Probably Not Work Safe] David, only these two entries had valid urls, sorry.
15a) Damian G. at Conservathink presents Obviousman couldn’t have said it better and
16) Mustang 23 at Assumption of Command presents What is the Most Humid place in Iraq?
17) Buckley F. Williams at The Nose On Your Face presents “Shecky” Muhammad Opens Up Israeli Tour
18) alsocanadian at IAM(also)CANADIAN presents You Might Be A Jedi CANADIAN If…
19) Jim McCarthy at Letter From California presents Rock of Old Ages
20) bob at either orr presents The Khadr Family
21) Doc Rampage at Doc Rampage presents a sewing machine I actually want
22) The Man at GOP and the City presents Fox Outsources “24” To India
23) Pamela at Atlas Shrugs presents Contrary to whatever you’ve heard, He’s not my boyfriend
24) The Evil Emperor Mindstation at Point Five presents Assassination Attempt Against Michael Moore Fails
25) Citizen Grim at Right Hand of God presents Gitmo & Aruba: A Tale of Two Resorts
26) David Brazeal at Horn+Swoggled presents Lakewood Launches Scientology Takeover Bid
27) Big Picture Guy at Big Picture, Small Office presents Throne for a Loop
28) Weisshaupt at Impossible Things to Believe Before Breakfast presents Liberals and Star Trek
29) Editor at Editors in Pajamas presents Statement
30) Mark A. Rayner at The Skwib presents The Lost PowerPoint Slides (#4)
31) Urthshu at Urthshu presents LGF Parody
32) John Hatch at Ideas Hatched presents One year of blogging
33a) Clupbert at Extra Strength Boredom Relief presents Northern Ireland Still Bored and
33b) baseball game rules
34) Stephen Feher at 411Mania – Politics presents The Weekly Monitor – 06-17-2005
35) Two Dogs at Mean Ol’ Meany presents Dr. Akeith Responds
36) Will Franklin at WILLisms.com presents Creative Taxidermy.
37) Patriot Xeno at Right Hand of God presents Reviews of Movies I Have Not Seen Based Solely on Their Title:
38) jimmyb at The Conservative UAW Guy presents Durbin the [bleep]. Oops, I Mean Dick Durbin.
39) Kit Jarrell at Euphoric Reality presents The Time-Life Album That Never Quite Got Released
Thanks for taking part in the 9th Carnival of Comedy. Your comments welcome.
Info on entering the Carnival of Comedy can be found here.
We’re all wondering who IS Pamela’s boyfriend.
number 4 is like totally awesome.
I am not Pamela’s boyfriend.
I heard Patriot Xeno is a treehugger
That’s too much work. Can’t we just comment at the person’s website.
Sure
I think the carnival of comedies is communist. Everyone gets in damn it. I think it should be more of a contest to get in. That way reviewing only 10 entries would be easier and competing is always more fun if you aren’t a stupid hippie/communist.
Oh so you want a comedic elitist like myself to decide what’s funny for you?
Grim! You treacherous dog!
Also – I’m through about 14 or so, and since nobody’s commenting, I’m giving it a shot.
So far, the best I’ve read (by far) is Holly Aho (9a,9b). Both of her submissions were good.
Special mention also goes to Steve the Pirate, because that was pretty good, too.
I do have a bit of an issue with David (14a,b). He’s got nudity pretty prominently on the page – and I’m at work. Maybe a little not work safe disclaimer?
oh, and Pamela is by far the best looking poster.
Thoughts on 15-31:
15: post (a) was pretty decent, post (b) was just links that i didn’t click on (they could’ve been awesome, for all i know)
17: Buckley’s always got good stuff, but since I check his site every day, I’d already read that one
23: Pamela.
24: I don’t know if it’s one guy posting as different people, or several guys. Regardless, the Michael Moore pic with pizza sauce all over his face made me laugh.
25: What a bunch of unfunny commi/hippie loving garbage.
27: Hilarious. The second post I’ve laughed out loud on.
31: Appeared to be pretty clever, and I’m assuming it is, but I don’t read LGF, so I could be way off.
Lunch is pretty well over, so I’ll have to read the rest over the weekend (or secretly the rest of the afternoon).
I have to say I’m disappointed with the lack of other people posting.
Would maybe creating some sort of voting system make more interest? Possibly an award (postable on their blog/post) for top-10 posts and carnival champion?
Xeno,
Re: #24, yeah, we really are two – er, I mean three – people.
I’m going to try to comment on as many as I can — but ‘the work thing’ and all prevents it until tonight. I’m hoping that’s true of others as well.
Ok, I’m up to #17 so far and I’ll give #5, #13 & #17 kudos for great posts that required creative thinking as well as being pretty funny.
And yes, Patriot Xeno, I have to very much agree with your opinion of the most humorous posts. (I have no shame)
…On to more reading!
oh yeah, 13 was pretty good, too. i forget what i read way too easily
“Oh so you want a comedic elitist like myself to decide what’s funny for you?”
Yeah I trust you. At least make every other one a contest with top 10 posted.
A Completely Impartial and Objective Review of Entry 21 by Someone Who Is Not the Auther of Said Entry
Doc Rampage’s entry this week is an esoteric, even avant-guard entry into the field of advanced humor. It’s not the side-splitting kind of humor that some of his previous entries have shown; rather, in this post he shows us his enormous depth of comedic talent with a subtle and unexpected bit of hyperbole. Carefully and delightfully tailored for the sophisticated, and yes, let us admit it, slightly jaded, gourmet comedy audience.
Another tour de force, by the beloved and whacky yet serious Doc Rampage. Don’t miss it. Showing at a blog near you.
I think 9a was great. But I’m x-military so some of the jokes might have ment more for me even had to go to my website and expand on some direct orders given to me and my army buddies.
aaahhhggg! My posts have been moved. New domain, new server. So, if you still want to see the dead cat story or the 101 things skippy cannot do they are now here:
http://www.sablogs.com/index.php?title=the_woman_who_stole_a_dead_cat
http://www.sablogs.com/index.php?title=the_101_things_e_4_skippy_can_t_do_while
~Holly