The Other White Meat
Holy gosh, how did it get to be Thanksgiving already> For those who don't know, I am half-Cherokee and from rural Oklahoma and therefore consider Thanksgiving to be mostly insulting. I'm thankful for stuff everyday, I don't need a whitewashed version of The American Holocaust and a ritual sacrifice to remind me to be grateful. I'm grateful everytime I look in the mirror and realize I am basically symmetrical.
Thank you all for your kind emails links and all about the return of Wigu! Something tells me everything is gonna be o-tay.
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Some people don't even have to be symmetrical to be thankful. Pretty much any day you are alive is a good excuse.
I have recently taken to stealing Support Our Troops magnets from people's cars.
It somehow makes me feel that all is right with the world.
do you have to be half thankful and half angry
or do you just pick one each year
Don't you know that sticking a yellow ribbon to your Hummer will help win the war?
Hey...you arent planning on eating that heart, are you? if so, let us know how it tastes. I suspect it tastes like victory.
That's not a heart, it's a scalp.
Scalping is the way Native Americans let White People know that they were welcome to stay, but for the sake of interest they shouldn't bother to try to resolve any of their differences.
White People couldn't agree more, and proudly made America into the awesome party-town it is today.
By a strange coincidence, Doonesbury did something similar.
Way to rub it in, you symmetrical bastard. Also, scalping a bald guy? Is that really necessary? They have a hard enough time as it is.
Wow, that's the darkest OC ever, perhaps, but I'd do the same thing to anyone driving a gas-guzzling refridgerator on wheels.
Also, yes, I've long been awaiting the return of Wigu since it first stopped on the internets. I am thankful for it's return. I'm guessing the end of the missile crisis is going to be left a cliff hanger for quite a while?
Darkest OC ever? I thought it's quite fun.
I am half Eastern Shoshone! Yaaaay I get to go tribal on people's asses just like J.Ro!!! :D
there's a study saying symmetrical men smell better.
or something.
If it was a heart we'd all know it takes like courage, sweet tasty courage.
Well, it's a good thing that the modern tradition of Thanksgiving was instituted by Abraham Lincoln and not the Pilgrims. It was, in part, to bolster morale in the Union. The Confederates took it as an insult and refused to celebrate the holiday for many years after the war.
So, rejoice, people can now put down their hatchets and take up their Civil War replica uniforms and rifles.
(Fun side fact: Franklin Delano Roosevelt almost destroyed Thanksgiving in 1939.)
I'm thankful for your Jeffery, everyday I read your HI-larious comics. it's true. regardless of my below stated sarcasm..it's true damn it!
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a tiny tear rolls down her cheek)
and...
SCENE!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
i'll have you know, i was extremely offended by todays comic.
stabbing a man with an emlem of an atoll on his shirt is not funny. atolls are harmless, beautiful islands surrounded by coral, and have never hurt anyone.
except when they are volcanoes.
wigu is my favorite comic. it is awesome that you are doing it again.
I guess you are right, it is a scalp. I didnt really look at it. Plus, the lack of hair threw me off.
Im sure you could still eat a scalp. But it wouldnt be as delicious as a heart.
I'm British, and it always surprises me, that whilst we're all a bit ashamed of a colonial past, all the exploiting of people, natural resources and the such, the USA seems to celebrate its genocide.
I guess, because it you accepted it was wrong; you'd all have to leave.
To paraphrase a friend of mine:
"For your unfortunate people who know nothing about so-called American culture, this is a celebration of that time Columbus beat up the Indians and took their corn, and in return for the wonderful syphilis and alcoholism, the Indians gave some guys in funny hats turkey and a peace pipe to smoke.
It's basically like every other major 'traditional' holiday in any human culture, in that it involves long, laborous cooking of foods we never normally eat and spending time with the people you happen to share genetic material with. If you do it right it also involves drunkeness. This probably doesn't happen to Japanese family's at obon or New Year's, but American holidays often involve tears, namecalling, and revelations that no one actually likes each other remotely."
I don't know, Christmas / Thanksgiving always seemed pretty miserable to the white folks anyway, what with the obesity and the dysfunction and all. It's like they are celebrating sewing the seeds of their destruction. As I am by posting here when I need to catch the bus to work.
because it you accepted it was wrong; you'd all have to leave.
And you'd better thank your lucky stars for it, too--where do you think we'd have to go back to?
Yes, all was idyllic in mesoamerican culture and history, aside from the genocide, cannibalism, and myriad other terrible things.
Look, every last one of us is descended from jerks.
The trick is to break the cycle of jerkiness. Graphically illustrating the fantasy of scalping a man just because he drives a Hummer and lives in a bigger house than you is, quite frankly, being a jerk.
I don't support the war, but I do support the troops, because it wasn't really their choice to get flown over to some shitty place and get killed. You know what I mean?
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I'm something of an egalitarian, so I pretty much think all of y'all suck and have no right to be here, and that includes myself. America is basically evil if you think about it.
I also wonder if Jeffrey, who I love like the brother I'll never meet, is not just a tetch too cynical to be attempting Wigu again. Not that I want to see him stop, ever. But still, Goth Dachshund man.
Fire Monkey Bob -- that's everyone's sentiment.
Zee -- we're talking about a comic that started with a play about cockfighting and then running over racist horses.
HEY JEFF WHERE THE F'STHE NEW SITE!?
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Most Thanksgiving turkeys are carried in through the front door. But one broke through Sandy Cobbs’ dining room window.
On Thursday, Cobbs was in her kitchen preparing sweet potatoes and vegetables when she heard a thunderous crash. Her husband, Bill, tried to hustle the bird back outside, but it bounced off some more windows and retreated to a big pot of orchids. Police finally herded the bloody bird out the deck doors.
“It’s terrible. My house is a disaster!” Sandy Cobbs said Friday, glass still littering the bloody carpet in her dining room. “I just couldn’t believe it was Thanksgiving and there was a live turkey in my house.”
Worse yet, it was the second time it happened. Police Sgt. Mike Roepke confirmed that on Christmas Day in 2004, a turkey came through the same window.
The couple live near the Hyland Lake Park Reserve in this Minneapolis suburb, and they said they see wild turkeys nearly every day.
“At first I thought my buffet fell over. It was so loud and kept crashing,” Cobbs said. “I went in there and said, ’Not again. Not again.’ He was huge — 2 or 3 feet tall.”
Cobbs said her insurance company doesn’t think it’s funny either. The last turkey attack caused nearly $10,000 in damage, including broken windows and ruined carpeting and drapes.
“I don’t know if I can turn in another claim,” she said.
your drawin's got a lot better since wigu discontinued. The new wigu strip confirms it, and so does this one: lookit that squinting feather-capped you up there; that's an awesome drawin'!
...is that the UN symbol on his polo shirt?
I believe Scalping was actually invented by white guys.. Long before they colonized America. The Injuns got the idea from bounty hunters who collected blood money for each Native American scalp they presented to the Authorities.
Basically symmetrical? It's time to stop living a lie. Call Dr. Nipples today and save $25!
Thanksgiving is the most awkward of holidays. I live in Osaka, so it's always a treat when a Japanese person asks me how we celebrate Thanksgiving, or what Thanksgiving is all about. When I explain to them that Thanksgiving is something like this Something Positive strip I get the most awkward, "I don't know how to react to that" faces. I just wish they would stop asking me to do happy pilgrim and "indian" themed lessons... or making posters. I got in a lot of trouble one year for making correct posters for Thanksgiving. Apparently a teacher didn't feel that that was appropriate for junior high school kids. Well. You get what you ask for.
Coincidentally I was sick as a dog this Thanksgiving but my grandparents were good to me.
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Pete, I was also under the impression that scalping was learned from Europeans.
And Scooter, good point about pre-invasion America. I don't have a problem with the scalping though, mostly because the bald guy clearly lives in one of those ugly-ass prefab developments that are anally raping every last piece of open land around my formerly rural little town. Good god I hate the people who live in them.
I have a support our troops magnet. I bought it when I was on a road trip through Arizona (my first red state) because it said "made in China" and never specified who's troops we are supposed to support.
The Canadian ones suck though, they have English, French, and a little flag.
I'm half native as well (Cree) and thought this comic was hilarious. Luckily I only had to celebrate one thanksgiving in the states and didn't notice the holiday since I'm use to the canadian time.
below is a link to an awesome photo of me showing that even as pale as I am, I've still got native genetics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/mostfamous/Digitalpictures1496.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/mostfamous/Digitalpictures1496.jpg
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