Comedy: February 08, 2017 Issue [#8118]
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 This week: Protests
  Edited by: Robert Waltz Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
         -Ed Koch

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.
         -Nikki Haley

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
         -Bill Maher


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Letter from the editor

I saw an ad the other day (which is rare, because I get my exercise from avoiding ads) for a custom doormat. For a small (ha) fee, they'd provide me with a nice ruglike thing with words on it to display on my front stoop.

I didn't take them up on it, because I was indecisive. I couldn't settle on "Go Away," "Sod Off," or "Get Lost."

But it got me to think about communicating one's deepest desires in a small space, and then I saw some pictures of a protest, and the idea for this newsletter clicked into place.

There are lots of things to protest these days: the existence of hashtags; overuse of emojis; our imminent doom at the hands of greedy corporations and politicians (the difference is becoming less evident); and the near-certain cancellation of the amazing TV show Emerald City, to name but a few.

Here in the US, marching around carrying signs is a guaranteed right and a time-honored tradition. But there's nothing that says anyone has to pay attention to what's on those signs, and with so much protest going on, it's difficult, sometimes, to make your voice heard. So you have to stand out, and to stand out requires - you guessed it - comedy.

Here at the Comedy Newsletter, we have your back, whatever you're protesting. In that spirit, feast your eyes on some of the funniest protest signs I've run across recently (some of them may be considered 18+ for language). Feel free to send more via the comment thingy at the bottom.

This guy knows his science:
http://cdn77.sadanduseless.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/protest1.jpg

Here's a protester that's not afraid to tell it like it is:
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/funny-protest-signs...

Oh shit:
http://cdn77.sadanduseless.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/protest12.jpg

Truth:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/cc/e2/38/cce2384429e6065800d03f9db095d...

Possibly the most British sign ever, apart from "Keep Calm and Carry On:"
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/41/15/7e/41157ee30b303a8edc6a2d25...

Guessing this is fake, but still funny:
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/these-protest-signs-are-an-art-to-t...

Seriously:
http://www.bmoreart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CantBelieveProtest.jpg

You want to protest several things, but you're too lazy to make more than one sign:
http://static.twentytwowords.com/wp-content/uploads/funny-protest-signs-43.jpg

Or maybe you're not sure what you're protesting, exactly:
http://i.imgur.com/ryV40TX.jpg

Even without the URL, I knew this sign was Canadian:
http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/misc/TorontoRally_2a.jpg

Will this war never end?
http://www.lolwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/10-geeky-and-funny-protest-sign...

I changed my mind. THIS sign is the most British thing since tea and the TARDIS:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3cb7yjWIAAMQqc.jpg


Editor's Picks

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Last time, in "Never Say Diet" Open in new Window., I talked about a popular New Year's resolution.

Quick-Quill Author Icon: My New Year's resolution is to learn to love myself no matter what size I am. If I begin to out grow my clothes, then do what it take to get back into them. I love my clothes, I bought them and want to wear them. I will stay whatever size it is that makes me happy.

         Good for you! Mine was to develop superpowers, and I'm still working on that.


Mumsy Author Icon: Schadenfreude.*Bigsmile* Definitely belongs in this newsletter. Yes, it does. *Laugh*

         And everywhere else, these days.


Shannon Author Icon: OMG, this newsletter is hilarious! My husband and I were talking the other day about how one guy who is healthy, fit, and runs five miles every day can tip over from a heart attack at the age of forty-two while another who weighs 500 pounds, never leaves the house, and hasn't exercised in decades lives to be seventy. There are no guarantees, and if today's my last day I'm eating that damn steak! I might have a side salad, but definitely the steak.

         Someone once told me to "live each day as if it were my last." They had to pick me up from the hospital in Vegas the next day.


And that's it for me for now! Until next time,

LAUGH ON!!!



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