{"id":1518,"date":"2008-11-29T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T04:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2008-12-03T19:02:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:02:24","slug":"with-a-patient-like-billy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"With a patient like Billy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a whole cadre of proctologists would have to be kept on retainer, he&#8217;s such a little a-hole.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Friday edition of FC featured a non-funny of Billy telling a &#8220;friend&#8221; about his uncle.\u00a0 The conversation was one-sided with Billy doing all of the talking.\u00a0 Not content with a word balloon, however, Billy commandeers a sub-caption as well.\u00a0 The result. No funny.\u00a0 Sure, his little pal <em>looks<\/em> interested, but then, so does Daddy when he&#8217;s got his inch-thick Coke-bottle-bottom specs trained on his son &#8212; maybe he&#8217;s just trying to focus the sun&#8217;s rays on Billy, hoping he&#8217;ll combust (hey, it works on ants, doesn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p>Blather away, Billy.\u00a0 We know what everyone&#8217;s thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1519\" title=\"new-fc2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc2.jpg 325w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc2-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Note that even Billy&#8217;s friends&#8217; heads aren&#8217;t as deformed as those of the Keane kids. Go on &#8212; measure!]<\/p>\n<p>Talking squirrel from over at Comics Curmudgeon suggested that Billy and Sarah Morgan (who&#8217;s been getting a lot of panel time for the past few weeks) get together for a rousing match of obnoxious kidlets.\u00a0 The premise is sound, but there are limits even for precocious little darlings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1520\" title=\"new-fc-2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc-2.jpg 325w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-fc-2-203x250.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we mustn&#8217;t forget know-it-all Dolly.\u00a0 Cripes, set up against the Keane Klan, Sarah comes off as all sweetness and light, hardly a whit of snottiness around her.\u00a0 This is a scary, scary thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/new-fc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1532\" title=\"new-fc\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/new-fc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/new-fc.jpg 320w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/new-fc-219x250.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a whole cadre of proctologists would have to be kept on retainer, he&#8217;s such a little a-hole. 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