Not only is Christian nationalist libertarianism a problematic philosophy, but old DC Romance comics have issues as well.
From Heart Throbs: The Best of DC Romance Comics. Tragically out of print but I snagged an old copy cheap – ‘for Belle’ – as I like to say. (Damn, I wouldn’t buy the hardback at that price
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Alex Ose 09.08.10 at 5:40 am
Excellent find, but for the mother lode of boner-related DC Comics jokes, consult this page. You’ll be glad you did.
Delicious Pundit 09.08.10 at 5:43 am
This type of licentious behavior was bound to happen once they let women golf.
Tony Sidaway 09.08.10 at 6:16 am
“We’re through, Susan. You’ve pulled your last boner!”
Drat those heterosexualists and their heterosexual agenda. They’ve gone and changed the meaning of the innocent word “boner” to “erect phallus” from…, uh, whatever it used to mean when that comic was inked.
John Holbo 09.08.10 at 6:47 am
Ah yes, Alex, I know it well. But you are right to share it with those who may have been less fortunate to date.
Tony Sidaway 09.08.10 at 7:51 am
Maybe the word “boner” used to refer to a sand wedge or a nine iron or something. As in “I was trying to concentrate on my drive but she kept yanking her boner out and waving it all over the fairway. It was very distracting.” That might explain a lot about Tiger Woods’ recent performance.
belle le triste 09.08.10 at 8:28 am
“Boner” used thus^^^ meant “boneheaded stunt” or some such. (Meaning fairly obvious from context: derivation less so, maybe.) It was still reasonably common usage when I were a nipper (=the 70s).
Ginger Yellow 09.08.10 at 10:02 am
Distraught at Philip’s rejection, Susan seeks solace in the arms of the nearby brick wall.
John Holbo 09.08.10 at 12:32 pm
Yes, I would like to be able to report that the rest of the story consists of Susan talking to the brick wall, and the wall thinking back, like Sally talking to the school wall in “Peanuts”. Alas, it was not to be.
John Holbo 09.08.10 at 12:50 pm
“Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall”.
Snark 09.08.10 at 12:53 pm
All comics have issues, John.
mds 09.08.10 at 1:05 pm
Wait, Phillip is talking to the blond woman? I thought “Susan” was just being an extremely good sport, so as not to further upset her hysterical drunken friend hanging on to the wall.
Tony Sidaway 09.08.10 at 2:38 pm
I think the meaning would be clearer if he said something like “every time I put on golf shoes you go mad and rip the sleeves off my sweater. This has gone far enough. Do I look like Desi Arnaz?” I love the other woman’s golfing outfit, though.
Anderson 09.08.10 at 9:45 pm
Wow, that guy is quite a loss.
mds 09.09.10 at 1:23 am
It makes more sense once you realize she’s actually holding the innards of a very large soda siphon.
John Holbo 09.09.10 at 1:56 am
“It makes more sense once you realize she’s actually holding the innards of a very large soda siphon.”
That’s what I love about the classics. You can always see something new.
garymar 09.09.10 at 9:35 pm
@6 belle le triste
Well, I was a nipper in the 50’s and it was a pretty common expression among the older set. However, once we hit puberty…
Another lost expression is “make book”. In an old movie that the MST3000 robots were watching, one of the characters says something like, “I’ll make book he’s the murderer!” The robots’ only comment: “huh?” OTB ain’t what it used to be.
chris 09.10.10 at 1:13 pm
@16: isn’t that a misuse of “make book”? I thought it only referred to a situation where you profited regardless of the outcome. Bookies (short for bookmakers) make book by taking bets from both sides in a way that they are guaranteed to take in more from the losers than they have to pay out to the winners.
An ordinary bettor who might lose isn’t making book.
garymar 09.10.10 at 7:43 pm
Chris, the online slang dictionary says it means “to make or accept bets on something”, so it just seems to be a generalized term for betting. Maybe the meaning is now narrowing as people forget what bookies are — if they are forgetting it.
roy belmont 09.10.10 at 10:01 pm
Golf course flag and club in brunette’s hand, as well as clubs in bag as well as bag, all stand at Philip’s erect phallic angle.
“Brick wall” lacks wallish rectangularity, is flesh-toned, is height/width dimensionally phallic. Is very large phallic shape. Is being stroked by Susan, or even caressed…I’m sorry, I have to go now.
garymar 09.10.10 at 10:13 pm
The other woman’s a brunette?
I love the distraught look on Susan’s face. But look at the dark eyebrows. Bottle blond!
Nattering Nabob 09.11.10 at 2:47 pm
Surely there’s a Boehner joke to be had somewhere here – come on guys, help me out…
deliasmith 09.13.10 at 3:29 pm
Surely the brunette is giving, or is about to give, the blonde a sly, left-handed reach-around? Or has my imagination stretched too far?
mg56 09.13.10 at 4:45 pm
Good grief, that’s exactly what she is doing. Now you polluted my pure mind.
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