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Friday, October 31, 2008

I Call Dibs on Blondie

posted by on October 31 at 12:01 PM

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I knew she’d be a freak in the sack!

This story is making the conservative blog rounds right now:

A Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in a campaign to allow marriages between humans and cartoon characters, saying he feels more at ease in the “two-dimensional world”…Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for one million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters.

Within a week he has gathered more than 1000 signatures…”I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world,” he wrote.

Of course, the bloggers are claiming this story proves that if you allow gay marriage, marrying a cartoon character is next. Just about all of them ignore that the story ends with this bit of trivia:

Earlier this month, a woman addicted to manga put out an online message seeking to kill her parents for asking her to throw away comic books that filled up three rooms.

Obviously, this isn’t a freedom of marriage issue, conservabloggers. The real point of this story is that we should ban comics altogether.

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Hey, NSFW!

Posted by stripes | October 31, 2008 12:09 PM
2

Where are all of the links to the conservatives freaking out?

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 31, 2008 12:10 PM
3

Besides this being really, really silly, cartoon characters can't consent, and what if everyone wants to marry the same hot schoolgirl? How does THAT work?

BTW, I have that book on Tijuana Bibles. Unless you really have the Tijuana bible itself, in which case you are significantly cooler than me.

Posted by Nora | October 31, 2008 12:22 PM
4

Finally, me and Sailor Mars can get hitched!

Does this man want to marry a male or female cartoon character? The latter is perfectly fine and normal, but the former will destroy society as we know it.

Posted by kebabs | October 31, 2008 12:27 PM
5

Dude, totally NSFW - put it behind the jump.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 31, 2008 12:35 PM
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If he wants to live his life in two dimensions, I suggest laying down in front of a moving steamroller.

Posted by Hernandez | October 31, 2008 12:36 PM
7

Why don't I think of awesome shit like that any more? I must be getting old. Fuck.

Posted by elenchos | October 31, 2008 12:38 PM
8

This seals it; manga is first stop on the road to a lonely existence.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | October 31, 2008 12:41 PM
9

To many sheltered wingnuts, no doubt, (out) gay people are about as real as cartoons.

Posted by K | October 31, 2008 12:41 PM
10

The irony of this Tijuana Bible: "Blondie" actually started out as a cheesecake strip, where her curves where indeed the point. Fully clothed, though.

Posted by Bill | October 31, 2008 12:44 PM
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Here's the rest of that awesome Blondie Tijuana Bible, which mocks the very idea of NSFW: http://tinyurl.com/6244uf



More where that came from: http://tinyurl.com/29nwa

Posted by Superfrankenstein | October 31, 2008 12:50 PM
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Perhaps we should do away with marriage altogether.

If cartoon marriage is allowed, next people will want to marry their porn!

Robert Crumb was attracted to a picture of Bugs Bunny dressed as a girl. He carried it around with him. One day it went through the wash in his pocket. His mother tried to dry it out by ironing it, which of course caused it to crumble to bits.

Posted by Betsy Ross | October 31, 2008 12:52 PM
13

You can have my Ultimate Spider-Man when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

Posted by supergp | October 31, 2008 12:59 PM
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The real point of this story is that we should ban comics altogether.

Those are fighting words.

Posted by bzishi | October 31, 2008 1:01 PM
15

So...

If we can marry a cartoon character, does that mean that all those cartoon characters that ACORN registered will be able to vote?

Posted by Reverse Polarity | October 31, 2008 1:02 PM
16

Cartoon characters are just one step along a natural progression of depravity that is certain to transpire if gays are allowed to marry. Soon it will be possible for a dog to marry a rainbow, or a steam shovel to marry a wedge of cheese.

Screw the integrity of Marriage as an institution -- these developments threaten the very integrity of reality!

Posted by flamingbanjo | October 31, 2008 1:29 PM
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"The real point of this story is that we should ban comics altogether."

At least those written by Judd Winnick...

Posted by farting thomas | October 31, 2008 1:33 PM
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Posted by Chip | October 31, 2008 2:37 PM
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When I became ordained by the Universal life Church I agreed that I wouldn't perform marriages for people and their pets, stuffed animals, or fictional characters. I have no problem marrying consenting adults of any race or gender.

Posted by elswinger | October 31, 2008 3:18 PM
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This reminds me of some slash fiction I read involving wolverine and the movie version of iceman...ice cream was used as lube....hrm I think I have an idea for next year's HUMP forming..........

Posted by zephsright | October 31, 2008 3:43 PM
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Thanks, Chip @ 18. That made my day.

Posted by Paul Constant | November 1, 2008 2:08 PM
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