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Pokey, is that you? (Pokey confirms to me that he does use mspaint)

pokey at the jewelry store

There. It's my favorite Pokey strip. It's also the only Pokey strip I like. I don't really get the love for Pokey... I don't get the love for Zippy the Pinhead either.

I really do like this one. The increasing aburdity of the situation unfolds with IMHO perfect comic timing.

You forgot Pokey, you insensitive clod!

Are you Pokey the Penguin?

Are you Pokey the Penguin?

Are you Pokey the Penguin?

The extra z means extra zing!

http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index296.html

I sense an upcoming lawsuit from Pokey the Penguin.

http://yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index397.html

THIS MODERATION IS DEFECTIVE
I DEMAND RECOMPENSE

For more information on the in-joke, see Pokey The Penguin

HOORAY POKEY

You've got it all wrong. The only thing Italians want is some artic circle-candy.

ZIING! (The extra I means extra ZING)

Websites I consider valuable I go over with a little program called SiteSucker, which will spider the site so I can keep it on my own media. For instance, back when Pokey the Penguin went about 3 full years without a single update, I thought to myself what a shame it would be if all this material were lost so I made my own archive and kept it on my HD.

HD space is cheap, and I think it's well worth it to keep some to keep my favorite sites from disappearing.

YES! POKEY was the first and still is the best dadaist web comic. There have been many too many imitators. POKEY MUST BE RECOGNIZED!!!

http://www.yellow5.com/pokey

Yes!

You know, here in germany we have this term called "saure-gurken-zeit" (roughly translates as "pickled cucumbers period"), meaning this stretch during the summer where there are NO news at all, and the papers start publishing cooking recipes on their frontpages for lack of anything better to print...

Pokey the Penguin never needed any publicity!
http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/

Chinese Dentist Ono Holiday was almost as good!
http://www.fat-rat.com/ONO/

HOORAY!

INDEED!! YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU MIGHT FIND AT A HOT SPOT IN HTE^H^H^H THE ARCTIC CIRCLE!!!

Hello,
We tried contacting you awhile ago about your low interest morta(ge rate.
You have qualified for the lowest rate in years...
You could get over $380,000 for as little as $500 a month!
Ba(d credit? Doesn't matter, low rates are fixed no matter what!

(Authentic Pokey all-caps type omitted because of the lame lameness filter. Apologies for any lack of fun happy this may have caused.)

OF COURSE PENGUINS LIVE IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE!!

Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Let it be known where this notion comes from:

POKEY

Even weirder: Pokey The Penguin. Be sure to check out the archives (the one currently on the main page isn't as bizarre as some of the earlier ones). And hey, it's a penguin so you are automatically required to love it, being a Slashdot reader and all.

Reminds me of Pokey the Penguin.

I know I shouldn't admit this, but I think that Geico commercial is about the funniest thing I've ever seen. Both because the request is so stupid, and because the Geico ad executive talks in that awkward deadpan voice.

I also love the Starburst commercial where the lumberjacks are eating trees, because it reminds me of a Pokey Comic. Yes, off topic.

PENGUINS.

Hooray for Pokey.

THE GRAVITY WELL IS AN ANOMALY!

(for those who don't get it: I DO NOT LIKE THIS GRAVITY!. or perhaps you simply lack the pokey gene)

Is this the same Rick Wallace that appeared in Pokey the Penguin? Man, that guy's famous even without the blog!

http://www.yellow5.com/pokey
http://www.rit.edu/~flf1754/pokey/pokeyfaq.html

Rock on, Rick Wallace!

My lungs are adapting! I've inhaled a roast

POKEY THE PENGUIN lives with his family in the Arctic Circle!!! Say hello to POKEY!!!!!

HELLO!!

POKEY THE PENGUIN is an educational childrens cartoon! Pokey and his pals have fun and learning about the hazards of the Arctic Circle!

My company was going to uninstall Linux and run Windows Server 2003 on all of our servers, but now I think I can convince them to stay with Linux. Hooray!

According to Pokey the Penguin

Or more precisely Pokey the Penguin

My favorite web comics would probably have to be jerkcity, , and Leisure Town.

Anyone else really enjoy these? Most people either just think these are too offensive or just too far out there, but I think they're great.

INFLUENCE OF GENETIC POLYMORPHISM ON SUBJECTS ABILITY TO INTERPRET POKEY THE PENGUIN

Yes, everybody loves Pokey The Penguin!!!

I had to include these lines because of slashdot's stupid lameness filter, which let through ascii pictures of the goatse guy but won't let me paste the title of a paper.

That the best online strips are Jerkcity, Leisure Town, and God's gift to man: Pokey The Penguin.

Those three have done some very interesting and unique things with the media other than just being print comics in cyberspace.

Just wanted to get this link in here: Pokey the Penguin. Thanks for reading this.

Just so yall know, Pokey hit 400 comics last night

Way funnier than that UF stuff.

D'Oh!

As you can see our people are intelligent and creative! We listen to the cure and wear black clothing.

Pokey is already published as .swf files.

Pokey The Penguin already lives in the Arctic Circle with his delicious Arctic Circle Candy. Tux is an Italian.

I'm more concerned about the italians myself...

Ahh, Ok. I've read more Pokey The Penguin than I have watched the A-Team. At the end of of a commic called "San Quinton Holds the Key" Pokey says "I love it when a plan comes together" though there is obvously no plan.

Well, how about Pokey The Penguin Then? They're after my Arctic Circle Candy!!

--Josh

Super!~!READ POKEY megafun hooray hooray hooray Hooraay hooray hooray hooay./
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What's wrong with livin' your life Chicago style?

Crap, is this a subversive intellectual joke that I'm not getting?

Anyway, your claim (assuming the entire post wasn't a joke flying over my radar), is undermined by people NOT finding the same humor funny. There seems to be a subversive, abnormal humor (say abnormal instead of intelligent to avoid loaded value judgments clouding the water) that "regular" people don't get. The best example I know of would be Pokey the Penguin. Normal people look at it and wonder why I'm reading something that looks like it was drawn by a two year old. To fans it's the funniest thing ever made, and all other humor exists in imitation of Pokey the Penguin.

There is certainly some humor that has an abnormal quality, a quality which we dare not say is intelligent but is likely to correllate with intelligence, and a quality which is at least as subversive as all abnormality must be.

I also note that it is possible to see humor in a joke that the originator did not intend--in fact, I've seen humor where the originator intended to have humor in the work he/she would not be aware of! (Sometimes I'm the originator...)

Replace "smarter" in your post with "abnormal" and "dumb" with "normal". Flip the bits of the negations in your second paragraph. (i.e. There IS [obviously] a subversive abnormality. Abnormal people and dumb people do not both find the same slapstick humor funny. It does make me more abnormal than somebody else if I see further into a normal joke then they do.)

Then just think about it for a second and I'm sure that you will agree.

<S>YES!!!</S>

Dated, dated... the only web comic with any staying-power is Pokey the Penguin. Pokey truly captures the essence of the human experience: universal, infinite, transcendant.
I'm just waiting for a print Pokey compilation. Then my life will be complete.