Awkward Hand Turkey Theatre Present: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (2164 hits)
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Submitted by Spencer Thompson (View user info) at 2007-04-16 17:50:29 EDT
It's been forever since I've done one of these.
I still have the same problems as before. Namely:
Too goddamn long.
Never know how to end it.
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Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-17 17:19:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Auto Turkey +2
Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2007-04-17 17:13:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Always good thank you
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-04-17 15:56:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Zebra (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:19:45 EDT (#)
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Did you consider breaking form and allowing your turkeys to shoot with their index fingers?
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That would have made it funnier.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-04-17 13:26:50 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by GetNakeddd (user info) at 2007-04-17 12:25:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-04-17 09:04:53 EDT (#)
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Home Prayer Advantage
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2007-04-17 12:23:45 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2007-04-17 12:07:18 EDT (#)
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ridiculous
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2007-04-17 11:25:01 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2007-04-17 10:24:40 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-04-17 09:04:53 EDT (#)
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Home Prayer Advantage
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2007-04-17 08:31:19 EDT (#)
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Dick Cheney accidentally shot someone, who lived, and it received lots of press coverage.
Aaron Burr intentionally shot a man, killing him, and was never convicted. Because duels were legal in whatever state they did it in, Burr couldn't be brought to trial for murder. He was brought to trial for treason, but not enough witnesses against him surfaced to convict him.
If it's any consolation, his political career was pretty much over afterwards.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-04-17 08:28:01 EDT (#)
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"It's funny because the serving vice president literally SHOT AND KILLED somebody and was never convicted."
meh, if I was Vice president I'd want free reign to kill people too.
didn't this nearly happen again just recently?
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2007-04-17 08:20:15 EDT (#)
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DC, they were American political figures (Aaron burr the Vice president, and Alexander Hamilton I don't know what he was at the time, maybe treasurer or something).
It's funny because the serving vice president literally SHOT AND KILLED somebody and was never convicted.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-04-17 08:16:33 EDT (#)
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not a clue who these people were/are and I don't care enough to look it up, I gather from the comments that they were americans, who shot each other, accidentally.
That is just a bit stereotypical and just a bit funny.
Try doing these with people around today or a modern situation.......one of those 'the world is going to end' people that were all going nuts (nutser) around 31/12/1999s reaction on 01/01/2000.
Or some guy in New Orleans having an argument with those religious nuts who hang around saying the city is doomed because of mardi gras and the hurricane turns up while they're talking.....
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2007-04-17 04:48:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Charmingly beef.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2007-04-17 03:39:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
bart was in my dream last night. I won back my ratings on a poker hand.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2007-04-17 03:35:22 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Jorge_Burrito (user info) at 2007-04-17 02:49:11 EDT (#)
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I know I am in the minority on this, but I just don't find these amusing or after the first thrity or so that you did particularly creative.
But then, that is just me.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2007-04-17 01:35:07 EDT (#)
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I think you should just run each of these by me before you post them.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2007-04-17 01:34:33 EDT (#)
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HTT rules, but for it to have been truly AHTT they should have discussed the rules about killing beforehand.
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2007-04-17 01:18:52 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2007-04-17 01:14:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
The little bit at the end sealed the already quite funny deal
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-04-17 00:54:22 EDT (#)
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yeah it bored me, butthen amused me, for pulling me out of the boredom you get a 2...
Submitted by Cyrus (user info) at 2007-04-16 23:58:59 EDT (#)
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Clearly absence makes the heart grow fonder - AHTT has been missed.
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2007-04-16 22:46:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-04-16 22:23:48 EDT (#)
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which currently amounts to about 60 people. not really worth the effort. the sad truth is that to get a significant amount of attention, you still have to play a little to the lowest common denominator, which includes pretty much everyone (regardless of what they think - everyone laughs at a fart at some point in their lives). the obscurity is funny, but cant possibly carry the idea for long because people get tired of needing to have the joke explained to them - note that the word you used for their responses was 'interesting', not 'hilarious' (or a synonym).
ps (as im sure youre aware) im not putting shit on you, by and large i quite enjoy this series, but im just giving you an opinion on why interest in it has waned somewhat.
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I recognize this is constructive criticism, don't worry about it.
I very sincerely don't want to earn success at the cost of enjoying making the comic. And I really very barely enjoy making it as it is. My approach isn't to find an audience, my approach is to let my audience find me. And they're getting here. Not amazingly fast, but decently enough. I'd rather play material I enjoy to 60 people than material I don't to 6,000.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-04-16 22:25:10 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-04-16 22:23:48 EDT (#)
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which currently amounts to about 60 people. not really worth the effort. the sad truth is that to get a significant amount of attention, you still have to play a little to the lowest common denominator, which includes pretty much everyone (regardless of what they think - everyone laughs at a fart at some point in their lives). the obscurity is funny, but cant possibly carry the idea for long because people get tired of needing to have the joke explained to them - note that the word you used for their responses was 'interesting', not 'hilarious' (or a synonym).
ps (as im sure youre aware) im not putting shit on you, by and large i quite enjoy this series, but im just giving you an opinion on why interest in it has waned somewhat.
Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2007-04-16 21:14:10 EDT (#)
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I don't care, this is funny as hell.
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2007-04-16 21:13:07 EDT (#)
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"the problem is that the whole 'obscure' part of your subjects is no longer a novelty, and that was the only thing that made it funny. (you might be thinking that these two are not obscure, but the internet is of course a worldwide community, and didnt have the slightest fuckign idea who these two were.) the problem with obscure subject material is that if you dont know what its about you have to find out. and if a joke has to be explained, then its a bad joke."
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The intention is never that they be obscure. That was never meant to be the novelty. The novelty has always been taking situations that may have been awkward, and building a conversation around it. Most people I assume know about Joseph and Mary, I'm willing to bet most people know about Mel Gibson, Alexander Graham Bell, the Unabomber, and some other people I've done strips on. I'm not trying to be obscure. While I try to stay away from material that's overdone, obscurity is certainly not the goal. It's just that if I see something interesting, I make a comic about it.
The hope is that the people who know about them will enjoy it, and those who don't might read up on the matter and even learn a little bit. I get a lot of replies on these comics that say "Read the comic then checked to see who the people were, that's pretty interesting what happened there."
If people aren't willing to do that then they don't need to read it. But since people are reading it, I suppose that means I've found my nice of people who either know about every guy I've made comics about, or don't mind looking it up. Or maybe they're still funny on a certain level even to someone completely ignorant. Who knows? It doesn't matter in the end, really.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-04-16 20:55:24 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2007-04-16 20:01:10 EDT (#)
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I have no real reason to link to Ubersite from here. The way I treat the site, actually, is that anything on Ubersite worth giving its own little section on the internet gets moved to the site.
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the problem is that the whole 'obscure' part of your subjects is no longer a novelty, and that was the only thing that made it funny. (you might be thinking that these two are not obscure, but the internet is of course a worldwide community, and didnt have the slightest fuckign idea who these two were.) the problem with obscure subject material is that if you dont know what its about you have to find out. and if a joke has to be explained, then its a bad joke.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-04-16 20:51:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
hand turkeys!
Submitted by PhillipTheGreat (user info) at 2007-04-16 20:40:48 EDT (#)
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WELCOME BACK
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2007-04-16 20:13:01 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2007-04-16 20:01:10 EDT (#)
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I have no real reason to link to Ubersite from here. The way I treat the site, actually, is that anything on Ubersite worth giving its own little section on the internet gets moved to the site.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:50:36 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:28:07 EDT (#)
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Love these. Stop stopping doing them.
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Agreed. You could start starting a spellcheck once in a while though.
*runs away*
*comes back*
I'll link my friends to it in a heartbeat as long as you don't now or ever link uber to it because I don't want most of them finding this place. You won't let them find me, will you?
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:44:27 EDT (#)
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I couldn't do one that covered two posts. I seriously have trouble drawing them out as much as I do now.
I'm down to getting about 60 hits a day on the website. It'd be a big help if anybody could link their friends, especially at message boards and such. =)
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:43:11 EDT (#)
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I've got an idea. Just don't end one and see how it does. You could also do a giant one that takes up multiple posts, like maybe even two whole posts. Those are my suggestions. WOO!
Submitted by Dolson (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:29:58 EDT (#)
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I have the same problem as before.
Namely: I love these things.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:28:07 EDT (#)
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Love these. Stop stopping doing them.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:15:14 EDT (#)
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Erm... I said that like I eat Cracker Jacks everyday, didn't I?
Well I don't.
It just so happens I ate one today.
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I like caramel corn.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:11:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HAHAHAHA
My Cracker Jack prize today was an Alexander Hamilton folding puzzle. It says here, '...He was shot by Aaron Burr in a duel after refusing to fire on Burr. He died on July 11, 1804.
HMILTON CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON THE $10 BILL'
Submitted by ampersand (user info) at 2007-04-16 19:04:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
mmm turkey
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:50:34 EDT (#)
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Burr's bullet hit Hamilton in his side and tore a two-inch entry wound in his liver. The bullet bounced off his ribcage and ricocheted around his abdomen before settling. The wound was so severe that even if it had been done today, with a team of top medical doctors on hand, Hamilton still would have died.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:48:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:18:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:01:26 EDT (#)
Burr actually tried to shoot over his head but accidentally hit him in the face.
Also, Hamilton was a volatile nutjob. He was good at his job and all, but he challenged fucking everybody to duels, and at least one was canceled after Burr mediated between Hamilton and, I think, Madison. Hamilton had it coming.
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It was Burr who challenged Hamilton, and shot him in the gut. Other than that, you were spot on.
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The thing is, Hamilton provoked it. He knew what he was doing when he defamed Burr in the papers. Burr had no choice.
Most of what I know is from Gore Vidal's "Burr", which he claims to be not an exact retelling of Burr's life, but at least very close to it. He wrote there that Burr was a horrible shot and probably would have missed if he were actually aiming at him. Also, Vidal wrote that Burr considered himself and Hamilton to be friendly rivals, and that he even LIKED Hamilton depsite disagreeing with his politics.
I dont know how much of that is true, though. The book is categorized as fiction, so who knows.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:44:05 EDT (#)
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Bart: So, like sometimes you can do stuff that you think is pretty bad
so other kids will like you better?
Homer: You're not talking about killing anyone, are you?
The Telltale Head
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:38:42 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:30:34 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Montucky (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:21:43 EDT (#)
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Now do one on the Sumner Affair
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:21:40 EDT (#)
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There was no ending but I don't care.
Submitted by Zebra (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:19:45 EDT (#)
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Did you consider breaking form and allowing your turkeys to shoot with their index fingers?
The little pistols were good, too.
Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:18:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:01:26 EDT (#)
Burr actually tried to shoot over his head but accidentally hit him in the face.
Also, Hamilton was a volatile nutjob. He was good at his job and all, but he challenged fucking everybody to duels, and at least one was canceled after Burr mediated between Hamilton and, I think, Madison. Hamilton had it coming.
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It was Burr who challenged Hamilton, and shot him in the gut. Other than that, you were spot on.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:15:23 EDT (#)
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I had to google who those people were.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:12:17 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:02:38 EDT (#)
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"between the two of us, you're not the one who's allowed to be bitter right now."
Brilliant. And this was NOT too long
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-04-16 18:01:26 EDT (#)
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Burr actually tried to shoot over his head but accidentally hit him in the face.
Also, Hamilton was a volatile nutjob. He was good at his job and all, but he challenged fucking everybody to duels, and at least one was canceled after Burr mediated between Hamilton and, I think, Madison. Hamilton had it coming.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-04-16 17:56:32 EDT (#)
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HAHAHA
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-04-16 17:54:49 EDT (#)
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I haven't seen one of these in forever.
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Too goddamn long.
Never know how to end it.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
Submitted by NoMeD (user info) at 2007-04-16 17:54:42 EDT (#)
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Awesome.