IB Bored

The above is a comic Roi and I were collaborating on during class. (I won't say which one in case any teachers read this. heh.) The hangman games at the top are unfinished because we guessed them correctly after only a few letters. Hangman isn't as much fun with someone you share a brain with. (They say "something wonderful", "on sprocken", and "origami penguin". Yes - I guessed "on sprocken" after just one letter. It's scary.)

We (Roi and I) were discussing a movie we watched in TOK called The Power Of Nightmares, about the rise of NeoCons in America and Islamic Fundamentalists in the Middle East. I commented that it would be a ridiculously awesome wake-up call to the White House if they woke up one morning and all of America's citizens had just gotten fed up and bailed and gone to Canda/Europe/etc. We were laughing at the image of a collective America saying "We're sick of this!" and just walking out, like a sexy girlfriend slamming the door on an irresponsible boyfriend. Unfortunately, Roi noted, most of the South would insist that our government really doesn't mean it, and that they really do love us, and they'd stay.

So I illustrated the conversation with a sketch of the White House and a thought bubble that says "WTF where'd everyone go" and a stick person holding aloft a Confederate flag yelling "AH'M STILL HURR". That was all it took.

In case you can't read it:

The Candadian flag is thinking "When did we become the new America? Eff! Eh?"

Mexican flag: "Still not happy..." "Oh, the irony."

Confederate flag: "You can't make me leave!"

Hammer & Sickle: "PWNED."

Union Jack: "We knew they'd be back. Private healthcare too much for ya?"

Chinese flag: "GO COMMIES!"

Australian flag: "WTF mate? ^^" (if you don't get this joke, you're a failure at the internet.)

Libyan flag: "Can we have a cooler flag please?" (in-joke from Psych last year)

Oh, and don't even think you know what's with the turtle.

Just try and imagine... two high schoolers get bored in class and start passing a note. Is it about a cute guy? The boring factor of the lesson? Plans for the weekend?

No.


It's political cartoons.

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