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By: Mina

Mina — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:23:46 +0000

Ha ha ha!! That’s brilliant!! I can’t believe, though, after reading through these comments, how many people are so offended by a commonly used cuss word which has obviously lost its full strength over the decades.

We laugh at Jesus and Mo when THEY take offence when others criticize their religions. Now many of us can laugh at all of YOU for taking offence to a simple cuss word. It is equally ridiculous, and equally funny, and by the way… my irony meter exploded.

That’s right, it didn’t go “sprung!” It EXPLODED!

By: Beggars Belief

Beggars Belief — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:06:44 +0000

“Its former power”, Nina- *its*. Have you forgotten the lessons of the last strip so quickly?!

By: nina

nina — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:29:36 +0000

I also don’t see what’s wrong with a cheap laugh – humour mainstays are generally cheap laughs – the pies in the face, a kick to the balls or a man in a dress.

I also think that Jesus saying fuck actually elevates it out of the cheap laugh label that would apply to any other non-religious character – but it’s because of who is saying it that the word regains some of it’s former power – the dramatic tension of the word being uttered by a person it’s unexpected from

By: GP

GP — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:38 +0000

I like a cheap laugh. I also like expensive laughs but they cost more. I’d have to work 28 hours a day to be able to afford an expensive laugh. It’s alright for you rich buggers…………….

By: Tom S. Fox

Tom S. Fox — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:21:49 +0000

Jesus used the f-word? When?

By: catnip

catnip — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:13:59 +0000

Unfortunately I need to agree with Oliver – This strip, as a lot of them lately, has become predictive. I mean, I am deeply fond of J&M and have been laughing about them for years, yet the wit and creativity of former strips too often appears to be reduced to new versions of one old punchline.

Keep it up, Author, you can do better than that!

By: ketil.G

ketil.G — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:29:05 +0000

eheeh this was funny. In norway i hear a bad word every day, so i think it’s not so wrong to say a bad word. But some one dont like bad words

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:05:43 +0000

Let me get this straight. Someone is complaining about the f-word being used in a comic largely composed of mocking and demeaning religion. Don’t get me wrong, I love J&M and I think religion really needs some mocking in our society. I am not being critical of the comic in the slightest. My point is that if the author really cared about offending fragile sensibilities, he/she/it would not have made this comic in the first place. I think someone having such a thin skin about language while having no problem when the comic poking fun at people who have a thin skin about religion seems pretty hypocritical to me.

By: nina

nina — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:31:20 +0000

I find it funny when people try to use “freedom of speech” in a manner that implies only the first speech gets it – they don’t seem to realize that just because you’re free and able to say a thing not only doesn’t mean you should say it, but more, it doesn’t mean that others do not get to react negatively to it or you for saying it.

By: DGKnipfer

DGKnipfer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:23:18 +0000

Brilliant!

By: Grouchy-One

Grouchy-One — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:01:30 +0000

@BJ – yes exactly, it’s a freedom of speech, not freedom from criticism!

By: BJ

BJ — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:53:38 +0000

a) I love J&M – no problem with anything in any of them
b) Most of the comments (and the site) push the point of freedom of speech
c) The original comment was an example of …. freedom of speech – someone expressing their opinion.
OK so disagree with that opinion (as the strip did) but be careful that you don’t deny the original writer their freedom of speech.

By: MercedesCorrosive

MercedesCorrosive — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:40:16 +0000

in the words of Kathy G, my beloved queen of hags – suck it, Jesus

By: blueshifter

blueshifter — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:39:47 +0000

dang it. i still like the old art. you’d think by now i’d be used to it, but… it really was better. Author! pls reconsider?

By: Scooby71

Scooby71 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:51:45 +0000

I wonder if the original complaint would have been made if it’d only been Mo saying Fuck?

By: zoster

zoster — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:01:21 +0000

oh, please, PLEASE go back to the old art. i can’t relate to these guys. now you have a really amateurish cartoon that tries to be professional, the old one actually emphasized the script and was a lot more … “soulful” (as in less generic)

By: Stonyground

Stonyground — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:16:16 +0000

For some reason this made me think of a ‘Not The Nine O Clock News’ sketch in which a Mary Whitehouse type character was claiming that people were becoming so used to uttering swearwords and vulgarities that they were slipping into their speech without them realising. The MW character at one point uttered the line “You can’t even open your mouth without a great stream of smut coming I’m coming don’t stop I’m coming out of it”.

By: Jerry w

Jerry w — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:08:10 +0000

Umm, 23 across, a four letter word that will,
on occasion refer to a female human?
Four letters, let’s see, and the last three are u-n-t?

Of course, it’s Aunt.
So, where did your filthy mind take you?

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:51:31 +0000

It’s weird how effectively comic timing can be employed in a series of 4 simple frames, yet it works perfectly. Nice.

(Hope everyone’s signed the petition to get this grasping bigot and paedo-protector to fund his own trip: http://www.secularism.org.uk/petition-the-pm.html)

By: evie

evie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:38:06 +0000

*yawn*