This completely reasonable and not-at-all hysterical cartoon apparently ran on a site called bastardsbible.com, which alas has gone the way of the dodo. I’m not sure if that was the original source. (I don’t think so; the hanged man’s hairstyle looks pretty 197os or 80s to me.) I’m also not sure why the members of “Today’s Lace Curtain Dominated Media” are wearing boxes on their heads. Or carrying what appears to be foliage. Or why the whole thing seems to be taking place on The Little Prince’s tiny planet.
@the Kitteh
I hope you don’t need surgery too. Recovery sucks.
Thanks, clairedammit! I just hope that if I do need something done, my insurance will cover me for a private hospital. The waiting lists at our public hospitals have reached the point where people are dying while waiting for so-called elective surgery.
Thanks, melody! 🙂
What worries me most about the time out/recovery is that it means Mum’s got no backup while I’m more or less out of action, now that my sister’s living interstate.
Kitteh’s: From the way the hair swings up to the right, I don’t think he’s used any oil at all.
clairedammit: For yeas, from books, I thought an anti-macassar was a type of cushion; which is funny, because my grandmother had them on the chairs (she grew up when oiled hair was quite the thing; she was a teen in the 1920s) but she never called them anything.
You’re right, his hair has a clean rather than excessively shiny look about it. But it’s such an impressively pointy hairdo that I had to post that link. 🙂
I tend to associate the oiled hairdos with the very smoothed down, curled at the side ‘dos of maybe the 1840s to 1860s, but I haven’t found any good pics of them yet.
This chap is the sort I’m thinking of, though I’d like to find an actual photograph.
And OMG this coat is beautiful …
OT but since we were talking about Manowar earlier, I literally guffawed when I saw this picture.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/08/25/dimmu-drama-gets-sillier-snowy-shaw-is-out/
Cute booties, dude. They really set off the random spikes on your wristbands.
OMG he looks like the love child of Frank Zappa and a Yeti.
The “I will frown as I concentrate really hard on taking a dump while I hug my bass blankie for comfort” pose is really working for him too.
I love that paragraph about someone quitting a band 24 hours after announcing they’d joined it. It’s straight out of Rock Notes from Monty Python’s Contractual Obligations Album.
Dimmu Borgir are hilarious. They’re like Spinal Tap meets really weird Disney movie with a drunk Tim Burton designing the costumes.
The more wanky and pretentious and super serious metal bands get the more I enjoy poking fun at them. It’s done with love, honest.
OT (again) how good is this – George Clooney doing his best Clark Gable impersonation. 🙂
http://www.moviestarspicture.com/photos/george-clooney/george-clooney-beard.jpg
Kitteh’s: Here is a recipe for Macassar Oil from the White House Cookbook (1887).*
As to hairdos: a few can be found here.
*It’s a wonderful cookbook. I had a friend who has a copy. We have cooked from it.
Melody- if you’re USian, Target has by far the cheapest lactase on the market. 60 full-strength (9000 units) tablets for $6.33ish. It’s more like a quarter a pill everywhere else, which is insane. I’ve had pretty decent success with adding lactase drops to Greek yogurt and the like (cream, cottage cheese), although they don’t work well enough for milk unless I take pills too. It ends up being a lot cheaper per serving to pre-treat, but much less convenient.
My scalp itches just looking at those hairdos …
A lot of old hairstyles make me instinctively reach for the shampoo.
Just wanted to point out this bit of hilarious hypocrisy. Jokes are just jokes that no one should take seriously as sexist if they’re about dongles, but not if they’re about men and babies. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1b8ynk/this_pile_of_crap_just_showed_up_on_canadian_news/
Similarity – both women get called names.
On who Hanged Fella looks like: I instantly saw a clean-shaven and slightly younger Ahmedinejad, but Ahmedinejad does have a definite Generic Vaguely Stylish Late-’70s Gentleman (BUT PERSIAN!) look to him, so. . .
@Pecunium
Without meaning to be too crass, OHMYGOODNESS Marlene Dietrich in men’s clothing. Hadn’t seen that in far too long.
Riiiiiiight. Tell me again how people asking (not forcing) you to not say sexist things is just like being lynched.
@Valerian
Thank you for the advice. I’ll check it out next time I’m near a target. So, next time I go out drinking lol.
I live near a bunch of bars, but I don’t drink there. I drink across town instead.
Are you lactose intolerant too? What do you do to dull the cravings when you want dairy, but don’t have your pills? Sorbet works as an ice cream alternative, but I haven’t really found a substitute for cheese. Or for half and half. I am too finky about my coffee to use soy or almond milk.
OMG, I love Solvang.
For Christmas this year, we made savory, filled aebleskiver, and of course the requisite frikadeller and creamed cabbage (which is awesome!). When my mom got married the second time, she and my brother made her a cake out of kransekage, which was also completely awesome and delicious. A lot of work, though. They also make homemade marzipan every year, and I am completely spoiled and can’t eat store bought.
I’m 1/4 Danish (literally, Grandma came from Denmark when she was four) and we keep some of the traditions alive.
Tast fish dishes indeed:
http://satwcomic.com/nordics-like-fish
Antidote to the failtroll.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/10/31/loutallicas-lulu-the-metalsucks-reviews/