# "Pinky, are you rolling back the prices I am?"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 6, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185 "2005-03-06T05:51:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/1 "2005-03-06T05:51:20Z")
Yes, normally the Boondocks does do great satire. Yes, they have gone overboard before.
But I highly doubt that you can have a soul\* and not find [this](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/20050306/cx_bo_uc/bo20050306) entertaining. š
\*Any who admit a lack of humor in the linkās contents can wait until next weekās Soul Special at your local Wal-Mart. Good, quality souls for cheap.
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/2 "2005-03-06T06:29:25Z")
Thatās it!!
Boondocks is going to be added to my roster of comix I read everyday.! š
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/3 "2005-03-06T13:09:03Z")
Yeah, I was highly entertained too. In fact, The Boondocks makes me smile pretty often.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/4 "2005-03-06T15:19:24Z")
And here I thought the one from [yesterday](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/uclickcomics/20050305/cx_bo_uc/bo20050305&e=2) was pretty hilarious!
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/5 "2005-03-06T18:06:50Z")
Meh, I say, meh.
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/6 "2005-03-06T18:30:19Z")
Could someone show me an example of where the cartoonist went too far? Seriously, I havenāt seen one (I admit I donāt read it regularly) that I thought went too far, and Iād like to.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/7 "2005-03-06T19:07:39Z")
Well, that depends on what you understand by āgoing overboardā. If someone means that at times he ladles out the āmessageā so thick that by the third panel of Tuesdayās strip (out of a week-long sequence) youāre going **āJEEZUS, MAN, OKAY, I GET IT, I GET IT!ā** then about twice a month. š
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/8 "2005-03-06T19:22:47Z")
The joke was funnyā¦the constant piling-on about WalMart is tiresome. Almost tiresome enough to make the joke unfunny.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/9 "2005-03-06T20:13:18Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#):
>
> Could someone show me an example of where the cartoonist went too far? Seriously, I havenāt seen one (I admit I donāt read it regularly) that I thought went too far, and Iād like to.
Well, _I_ donāt think he goes to far, but the recent strips dealing with Bushās purported drug use were enough to get the strip pulled from some papers. Iām sure yesterdayās strip (N.G.R.O.E. vs. N.G.G.R.) will ruffle a few feathers.
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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/10 "2005-03-06T21:49:05Z")
I stopped actively reading Boondocks back in 2000, when the artist made a strip about Alan Keyes, the black Republican candidate, during the primaries. It came out the week after Keyes had been in town for a local campaign stop, and Iād watched it on local access TV, because I was interested in what he had to say. Keyesā platform was vague, at best. He had a number of policy positions that I was sympathetic to, but no plan. Now, by this time, Keyes had lost all chance of the nomination, if heād ever had one, so he may well have been just focusing debate on issues he was concerned with, but still, after seeing him speak I knew I wasnāt going to vote for him.
The Boondocks that week was about a nominal Republican saying he thought that Keyes was saying a lot of good stuff, but when asked if he was going to vote for Keyes, he responded: āAnd let a black in the White House?! Hell, no!ā (Actually, I think it was the n-word, but Iām not sure.)
After that, if thatās the only reason that the artist could see for someone to not vote for Keyes, I had no desire to pollute my brain with his bile.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/11 "2005-03-06T23:02:21Z")
Funny, I thought those two would be working for Microsoft.
(I must admit this is the only _Boondocks_ that has ever made me laugh out loud.)
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### Author:  [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/12 "2005-03-07T04:59:10Z")
No, Microsoft is Snowball the hamsterās turf.
Me, Iām just glad to see new P&B material again.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/13 "2005-03-07T05:59:12Z")
**The Boondocks** today is what **Doonesbury** was thirty years ago. It āgoes too farā only because it isnāt afraid to hork off the Powers That Be.
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/14 "2005-03-07T06:03:46Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#):
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> purported drug use
Yeah, and Clintonās purported blowjobs. š
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/15 "2005-03-07T06:08:28Z")
Meh. _Boondocksā_ take on Wal-Mart is nothing compare to _South Parkās,_ 12/20/04. [http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-344/epid-372424/](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-344/epid-372424/), [http://www.sbs.com.au/southpark/](http://www.sbs.com.au/southpark/), [http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11614&sort=1&size=medium&cat=6160](http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11614&sort=1&size=medium&cat=6160)
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/16 "2005-03-07T14:20:40Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#):
>
> I stopped actively reading Boondocks back in 2000, when the artist made a strip about Alan Keyes, the black Republican candidate, during the primaries. It came out the week after Keyes had been in town for a local campaign stop, and Iād watched it on local access TV, because I was interested in what he had to say. Keyesā platform was vague, at best. He had a number of policy positions that I was sympathetic to, but no plan. Now, by this time, Keyes had lost all chance of the nomination, if heād ever had one, so he may well have been just focusing debate on issues he was concerned with, but still, after seeing him speak I knew I wasnāt going to vote for him.
>
> The Boondocks that week was about a nominal Republican saying he thought that Keyes was saying a lot of good stuff, but when asked if he was going to vote for Keyes, he responded: āAnd let a black in the White House?! Hell, no!ā (Actually, I think it was the n-word, but Iām not sure.)
>
> After that, if thatās the only reason that the artist could see for someone to not vote for Keyes, I had no desire to pollute my brain with his bile.
Yeah, well, if you canāt tell the difference between the authorās position, and the author satirizing Republican attitudes, maybe you should stick to Ziggy. Today his parrot was surprised that they were having round crackers.
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/17 "2005-03-07T14:47:21Z")
> [@rjung](#):
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> **The Boondocks** today is what **Doonesbury** was thirty years ago. It āgoes too farā only because it isnāt afraid to hork off the Powers That Be.
No, I would disagree. Bad taste is bad taste, no matter who itās āhorking off.ā
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/18 "2005-03-07T14:49:27Z")
> [@Trunk](#):
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> Yeah, well, if you canāt tell the difference between the authorās position, and the author satirizing Republican attitudes, maybe you should stick to Ziggy. Today his parrot was surprised that they were having round crackers.
There really is no difference in the authorās position and what he writes in the strip. I think we all KNOW the author was attempting to satirize, what YOU seem to fail to realize is that his satire reveals all too much about his position.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/19 "2005-03-11T22:45:40Z")
> [@RikWriter](#):
>
> No, I would disagree. Bad taste is bad taste, no matter who itās āhorking off.ā
š But what is there in _Boondocks_ (or _Doonesbury)_ that constitutes ābad tasteā? Iāve heard various criticisms leveled at both strips, but never that.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinky-are-you-rolling-back-the-prices-i-am/293185/20 "2005-03-11T23:25:50Z")
> [@RikWriter](#):
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> There really is no difference in the authorās position and what he writes in the strip.
Is this statement a generality, or specific to _Boondocks_? If the later, how do you know this, exactly?
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