By: posthumous [2003-04-20]

Zirealism

yer Sunday comix


I demand a refund! [2003-04-20 10:43:00] Antwan
What the hell? Now, I'm not one that tries to nit and pick every single Zirealism but... I think that a hearty WHAT THE FUCK? is in order for this one. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Rabbits and Gerbils and bad comics oh my!
Analysis [2003-04-20 11:45:00] Noser the Fishless
Well, it's Easter, and there's a rabbit saying "Christ", that'd be the logical starting point.

The great deal of whitespace at the top of the comic must be indicative of something... given the religious theme, perhaps it represents Our Savior (tm), watching invisibly.

The other rabbits (I'm assuming the two in back are badly-drawn rabbits, not guinea pigs) are arranged roughly in a circle, as to suggest a stoning; in context, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" immediately comes to mind.

So, it's... uh... a holiday message of love and forgiveness! Sure, that works. Yeah.
[2003-04-20 11:48:00] another timmy
maybe he's saying we shouldn't have sex on Easter?
Petey [2003-04-20 12:25:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Maybe they're in a pen at Pel-Freez.
Posthumous [2003-04-20 12:47:00] Jonas
Ignore those four rabbits. This is now one of my favourite Zirealisms. I like the attentive yet clueless one in the back.
Secular interpretation [2003-04-20 15:23:00] Noser the Fishless
It's a cross between Watership Down, The Lottery, King Kong, and Petey. They've chosen the one rabbit to be sacrificed.
[2003-04-20 15:43:00] Margot Glass
I don't know, I kind of think they are guinea pigs. Their ears are significantly different.
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner [2003-04-20 16:48:00] Noser the Fishless
Okay, if two of the onlookers are guinea pigs and two are rabbits, then perhaps the angry rabbit on the left is the child of the two on the right, and has just announced that he or she is in love with the guinea-pig child of the two guinea pigs. One rabbit parent stands back, secretly supportive of young interspecies love but unwilling to defy the other.
Give Antwan His Money Back [2003-04-20 17:31:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
He's still trying to figure out why the chicken crossed the road. Maybe there should be a sign, "You have to be THIS tall to read Zirealism
hey [2003-04-20 17:45:00] pithymood
Christ you know it ain't easy...
Antwan [2003-04-20 17:46:00] posthumous
You have finally learned how to use the bold tag. Learning the joy of Zirealism will only be a matter of time.
posthumous saw into the future! [2003-04-20 17:52:00] Noser
The angry, insulting rabbit is Heironymous Biscuit, and the one standing back with the confused expression is Antwan.
ha [2003-04-20 18:01:00] pithymood
Caustic [2003-04-20 18:17:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Sorry, I didn't mean to seem too caustic; but I have reason to believe that Antwan is feigning ignorance!
Perhaps... [2003-04-20 19:15:00] Antwan
Maybe just a little for comedic value... And maybe I've exagerrated a little in the past... but I am SERIOUSLY lost in this Zirealism.
Hot Medium/Cool Medium [2003-04-20 19:58:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
A hot medium supplies more answers, more information, and a cool medium elicits more projection and participation. This comic, for example, might either be taken at face value, or lend itself to varied situational interpretations. Being as it's Easter Sunday, let us assume for a moment that it is a temporally referential comic. Eastre was a Pagan Germanic Fertility Festival, and that's where the rabbit association originates, and the gawdam rabbits didn't know that! Don't feel flummoxed by ambiguity. Indeed, according to the f-scale and many other tests of authoritarianism and personality rigidity, the more fascistic an individual is, the less tolerant of ambiguity; but I guess that it's OK to just say, "I don't get it!" But neither is it a Federal Crime (yet)to be playful about interpretations.
Happy Estrus! [2003-04-20 20:19:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
estrus-The periodic state of sexual excitement in the female of most mammals, excluding humans, that immediately precedes ovulation and during which the female is most receptive to mating; heat. See? They made up all of this Easter Bunny and Ducks and Eggs junk just because they are uncomfortable about saying, "Hey! Happy bitch in heat!"
Completely different take [2003-04-20 21:05:00] Noser the Fishless
The two rabbits in front are staring each other down. The standing rabbit and the front guinea pig are watching. The rear guinea pig has just shown up, and is speaking, commenting on both the pointlessness of violence and the pointlessness of voyeurism of violence.
Rabbit Ears [2003-04-20 21:16:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
The rabbit with the longest ears knows the most. The talking rabbit is demonstrating this by talking, whereas the other rabbits are dumb bunnies and must communicate with American Sign Language, Body Language, and by beating out that rhythm on a drum.
that rhythm on a drum [2003-04-20 21:40:00] Noser
That would account for the one apparently thumping its leg.
Yep! [2003-04-20 22:00:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
And I think that the one behind it is getting ready to mount!
Biscuit [2003-04-20 22:59:00] Jonas
Hold on, out of every person and group of people you've been at all mean towards, you apologize to Antwan? I'm kicking you out of the club.
Not to Antwan [2003-04-20 23:35:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Rereading the comments, I am certain that I was apologizing to Noser for appearing to be angry and insulting when I had only intended to be sort of wry. And actually, I did sort of pull my punches when not pressing it when I got Antwan to admit that he's not feigning ignorance.
Okay, I see now [2003-04-21 00:52:00] Jonas
Apologies. I'll re-admit you into the club. Especially if you bring some of that rye.
Ha! [2003-04-21 00:56:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Now someone will kick you out for apologizing to me! Stop the insanity!
OK [2003-04-21 10:43:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
OK, you may start the insanity again now.
Did anyone notice [2003-04-21 17:45:00] laconic
That Buscuit has gone back in time. Thus making the insanity start again before he had even put a stop to the insanity in the first place. This could be a major event causing great rifts in space time. Or it could be a sign of the apocolypse. Or buscuit might need to reset his computer's clock.
Clock [2003-04-21 17:52:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
I've got one of those clocks
Hey, a club? [2003-04-21 18:13:00] Antwan
Do they explain what this comic means in the club? Really, can't posthumous just say "It's funny because the bunnies want to have sex" or something? Sheesh, I'm going to bed.
Bedtime for Bonzo [2003-04-21 19:34:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
The Cajuns got an expression for "Let's party!" which is something like fi deaux, meaning to put the kids to bed, then laissez les bons temps rouler!
laconic: not club material [2003-04-21 22:17:00] Jonas
I kind of want to tell you it works, but I don't think you deserve to know. Unless you count time by the Hebrew clock, in which case, um... go wander in a desert.
okay [2003-04-22 18:12:00] laconic
what works? I need anticedents damnit. Sigh...and no one ever will ever look at this page since Thingsihate has updated. So I hang my head quietly and hope that one day I'll be able to join a club.
Antecedents [2003-04-22 18:20:00] Hieronymous Biscuit
Yes, it's too bad that there isn't some sort of traffic activity counter to let us know which pages are being frequented. Not being one to shy from setting precedent, iconoclast that I am, I wouldn't be much help with the antecedent issue.
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