ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY  10:17 am December 17, 2009

Look: Someone Scraped This Great Metaphor Off The Side Of The Road!

by Juli Weiner


Oh, my god. “Melissa H.”, please hunt, shoot and kill some context:  “My Aunt forwarded me this AM. She is a Republican, but not a hunter, so I am assuming she worries that deer can get in to see a doctor under the public option. This is from the coal region in Pennsylvania, a county that did not go for Obama, but the end table looks like it is from IKEA, so I could be wrong.”

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{ 152 comments }

ella December 17, 2009 at 10:20 am

Maybe the table’s original owner shopped at Ikea.

coolcatdaddy December 17, 2009 at 10:21 am

I’m convinced that Republicans are mentally ill, acting out and visualizing strange internal fears and dreams that only a licensed psychologist with infinite patience could figure out.

Either that or they’re just downright stupid.

magic titty December 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

This is the scene right before they go to Vietnam to play Russian Roulette, right?

DI DI MAO!

hockeymom December 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

I hate it when the deer falls asleep while watching TV.

(WTF is this charming tableau all about? )

ohiolobbyist December 17, 2009 at 10:25 am

So… does anyone understand the point they’re trying to make? If you figure it out, alert me at once.

CrunchyKnee December 17, 2009 at 10:25 am

Skoalrebel has expanded his living room big fucking time since achieving YouTubes fame.

the problem child December 17, 2009 at 10:26 am

Why is someone throwing away perfectly good roadkill?

samsuncle December 17, 2009 at 10:27 am

It has always amazed me that the poor, uneducated, people on medicare, or reciepents of VA medical care have been co-opted by the Rethugs into thinking that our current system of health care does not need reforming. Geaux Saints. Also. Please excuse my snarkless comment.

Hamster December 17, 2009 at 10:28 am

I’ve always wanted to know what would happen if you made a deer watch Fox News, and now I know!

queeraselvis v 2.0 December 17, 2009 at 10:32 am

The deer obviously died of shock after seeing the hideous pattern on that couch, not to mention that atrocious lamp. Where’s Candace Olsen when you need her?

ManchuCandidate December 17, 2009 at 10:32 am

The stupids will be with us, always (unfortunately.)

letmetellyou December 17, 2009 at 10:34 am

Ha, my two of my coworkers are from Schuylkill County and both of their parents sent them this yesterday. The coal has literally gone to their brains.

V572625694 December 17, 2009 at 10:34 am

[re=480343]magic titty[/re]: You buy for me one Saigon tea, GI?

pampl December 17, 2009 at 10:35 am

“STAYED HOME -> SORRY THE DEER”
I’ve run out of room and had to write in the margins before, but running out of space after the end of the sentence and before the beginning is a new one on me

rmontcal December 17, 2009 at 10:36 am

DO NOT GET!

Either this is stupidest thing ever or the methlab hillbillies are way smarter than me.

I suppose it could be both, except that I have a degree and I know how to get the words to show up in the big box on the typewriter with the TV on it.

rocktonsammy December 17, 2009 at 10:37 am

This is obviously taking free speech over the line.

The people responsible should be hunted down and killed.

JMP December 17, 2009 at 10:37 am

The deer is just taking a nap; he can’t afford to have injured hunters on his conscience because it means that his aim was off, the hunter might survive, and so he’s failed in protecting his herd from the homo rednuckus menace. Don’t know what that has to do with healthcare, though.

rmontcal December 17, 2009 at 10:38 am

alt text: “oh dear!”

thesheriffisnear December 17, 2009 at 10:39 am

Oh deer, me deer, dead deer, yes deer.

hockeymom December 17, 2009 at 10:40 am

“Mom?”

/Bambi

FMA December 17, 2009 at 10:43 am

I’m not sure what to say about that piece of art.
But I will say, as a resident of the great commonwealth of Pennsytucky, during deer season, I always root for the deer.

Cranky Little Camperette December 17, 2009 at 10:44 am

Wait, so the deer is staying “home” because it is more concerned about healthcare & hunters’ welfare than about catching a .22 between the eyes?

My, what a considerate deer!

memzilla December 17, 2009 at 10:46 am

Ha ha ha, this isn’t about healthcare, this is about the deer’s house getting foreclosed. Stupid ‘Thuglicans can’t even get their wingnuttery correct.

x111e7thst December 17, 2009 at 10:47 am

[re=480347]the problem child[/re]: When I hit a deer I slit its throat, which is necessary because the crash usually does not kill them right away, and then throw it in the back of the truck. It does not taste any different from the deer I shoot during hunting season and afords me some compensation for the damage that has been done to my vehicle.

red sky December 17, 2009 at 10:47 am

I think it might be a commentary on STD’s it looks like the Deer has been date raped by vicious hunters, and left on the couch to heel it’s wounds, psychic and physical. But now all the hunters have the Deer Aids, and won’t be able to get help b/c of ObamaCare, um….yeah… something like that….

Flanders December 17, 2009 at 10:47 am

[re=480344]hockeymom[/re]: As the story goes, that is Rudolph passed out on the couch after drinking too much Nyquil to recover from the cold he picked up from staying out too late on Christmas Eve. I believe he was watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at the time.

x111e7thst December 17, 2009 at 10:47 am

Affords.

Dumptruck December 17, 2009 at 10:48 am

Obviously the deer is racist.

Hamster December 17, 2009 at 10:48 am

[re=480363]rmontcal[/re]: Without the sign it would have been really damn funny. With the sign there it’s just a mindfuck.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 10:49 am

So this is what Gary Larson has been doing with himself since retirement? What a waste.

bureaucrap December 17, 2009 at 10:49 am

Somebody needs to tell the signmaker that nothing has even HAPPENED yet with health care reform, so it’s not possible for Obama to have already “ruined” healthcare. Unless he/she is writing the sign from the future.

Noonan December 17, 2009 at 10:50 am

Ah, I miss home.

Prommie December 17, 2009 at 10:50 am

Its right over my head. The deer stayed home because it didn’t want injured hunters on its conscience, because there is no healthcare to care for them? Or, the deer was able to steal the hunter’s furniture, because the hunter was waiting for hours in a government health care gulag? Or, wait, I know I can get this, the deer died from lack of health care, and therefore, there is no deer for the hunter to hunt? The deer got drunk and passed out on the couch becuase it was depressed at the thought of injured hunters unable to get health care?

There is a black president, which is a such an upside-down and unnatural state of affairs, that soon deer will be living in houses, with furniture from Ikea? And dogs and cats will be sleeping together, and the oceans will be flying through the air, and such?

Wowee, I stop trying to understand now, head hertz.

thesheriffisnear December 17, 2009 at 10:50 am

[re=480343]magic titty[/re]: Nguyen!!!!

freakishlystrong December 17, 2009 at 10:50 am

What the fuck? Someone actually thought about that, and then set it up just so, and then made the sign. It’s the ninth circle of crazy.

glamourdammerung December 17, 2009 at 10:52 am

It is like a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, covered in meth and the failed dreams of white trash.

JMP December 17, 2009 at 10:54 am

[re=480373]FMA[/re]: Oh, hell yeah; I’ve always wished we could have heavily armed deer out there, hunting the hunters. Or the hunters could try making it a real sport, and go after bears armed with nothing but a kitchen knife.

binarian December 17, 2009 at 10:54 am

Jesus, there’s so much stupid in one picture here. Are the hunters supposed to stay home and watch TV ’cause they might hurt themselves hunting?

BlueStateLibtard December 17, 2009 at 10:57 am

These Pennsylvanians make people in Conneticut look almost smart.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 10:58 am

As for everyone trying to figure out what this “means”, it doesn’t “mean” anything at all. You’re granting the target audience too much credit assuming they would understand basic comedic nuances such as irony, timing, timeliness, sarcasm, etc.

So let us, if you will, take a brief moment to reflect upon what goes on behind the scenes of your average wingnut when they make the momentous decision on whether something is funny or not and apply it to this situation here.

1) Is the subject something I like or don’t like?
2) Is the commentary about the subject positive or negative?
3) Is this written in “words” or are pictures involved/animations/irrelevant animals involved?

If the answer to 1 “like” than the item in question is ONLY FUNNY if the answer to 2 is positive.

If the answer to 1 is “don’t like” than the item in question is ONLY FUNNY if negative.

In either case, if the answer to 3 is animations/pictures/animals, than it is okay to laugh. If it is “words” than you must nod along and pretend you actually know what they mean (because, let’s not kid ourselves, you don’t).

So, here, subject is Muslin Barry O (“Don’t LIKE”)

He killed healthcare (something else we don’t like, I guess), so… um… negative?

The inclusion of words might make you think you have to nod and pretend to understand, but don’t be fooled, the fact that this is a picture AND has an irrelevant animal outweighs the need for 2nd grade reading skills. It’s totally okay to laugh even though you have no fucking clue what exactly you are laughing at.

engulfedinflames December 17, 2009 at 10:58 am

The muddled head that “thought” of this votes. There is no hope.

Joshua Norton December 17, 2009 at 10:59 am

The words ‘bat’, ‘shit’ and ‘crazy’ spring to mind.

Fox News Light December 17, 2009 at 11:01 am

With the change in events this week I am confused. Did Dick Armey set that up or Markos Moulitsas?

Mr Blifil December 17, 2009 at 11:01 am

[re=480399]binarian[/re]: By George (King George III, that is) I think you’ve got it. It goes without saying that until Obama came on the job in January of the present year, hunters enjoyed the highest quality care, both in terms of access and affordability. Didn’t take long for ACORN to divert those dollars intended to protect America’s families and put them toward distribution of crack pipes in every rural elementary school.

On a side note, I will say that the picture reveals hitherto unimagined levels of stifled creativity among the stone cold racist sector.

PrairiePossum December 17, 2009 at 11:03 am

You know that annoying song about grandma being ran over by a reindeer? I think the picture depicts grandma’s revenge assuming grandma is a meth addict.

Joshua Norton December 17, 2009 at 11:04 am

[re=480404]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: It also helps if you have a bunch of crappy furniture to get rid of that’s too awful even for Craig’s List.

BadKitty December 17, 2009 at 11:05 am

I hope they had a tag for that deer or else the DNR will be coming after their asses. Poaching can cost some big $$$$ and even jail time.

Hamster December 17, 2009 at 11:05 am

[re=480404]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Ahh, these are separate things entirely. The intention is that you (in no particular order) read the sign and agree that B Hussein ruined stuff etc etc, and also see that deer watching the teevee har har har dat dares funny stuff, and so on. It’s so simple!

bricks December 17, 2009 at 11:06 am

Great. Bible-belt, crystal meth-addled abstractions by Salvador Dummi.

Waht the fuck does this even mean?

Cranky Little Camperette December 17, 2009 at 11:08 am

[re=480417]Joshua Norton[/re]: 1. Are they going to decorate it for the holidays with tinsel and lights? And 2. who’s gonna clean that up in six weeks or whenever they remember to do so? Or does one just ignite it?

marioninnyc December 17, 2009 at 11:09 am

Is this like the hillbilly version of those New Yorker cartoons that don’t really make sense?

SayItWithWookies December 17, 2009 at 11:09 am

Alternate signage:

Sorry Hunters
Y’all Can’t Shoot for Shit
I spent all day wandering around the woods and the closest I got to becoming venison was watching one guy in blaze orange blow away another guy in blaze orange by accident. So I sat down to wait for your sorry asses, and turned on Larry the Cable Guy, and about ten minutes into it took my own life out of sheer despair.
Sorry you suck,
The Deer

catsquatch December 17, 2009 at 11:09 am

[re=480346]CrunchyKnee[/re]: Wonkette ruined Skoalrebel’s life. In an example of the human impacts of our relentless warblogging, he was kicked off the YOOTOOBS and can no longer interact with the rest of the dipping community. He cries lonely berry flavored grizz tears into his mud jug without the benefit of a webcam now. We are all poorer for this outcome.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 11:09 am

[re=480420]Hamster[/re]: there you go, now you’re getting it.

Just remember, these are the same people that, without irony, misspell moron.

Citizen Kitteh December 17, 2009 at 11:09 am

A note about that end table – I’m old enough to know that it’s a classic (ie cheap) 70′s plastic end table with detachable legs. They’re rockin’ it retro in Pennsylvania!

Chickensmack December 17, 2009 at 11:10 am

God dammit, why the fuck do we give voice to these mindless people? I see embarrassing displays like this all over Tennessee and Alabama, but I have the common courtesy to keep that shameful shit here, and not give those pinheaded canuckle-draggin’ Jesus fans any time or attention… EVER.

proudgrampa December 17, 2009 at 11:11 am

WTF?

It’s like the creators of this tableau had an entire story to tell, but ran out of cardboard to explain it.

TGY December 17, 2009 at 11:12 am

Thanks, heartland of America, for making us laugh at your retarded antics, once again.

Larry McAwful December 17, 2009 at 11:13 am

The problem with the coal region of Pennsylvania (which is most of the state) is that you have to be smart to mine coal. That meant that the smartest coal miners were given the most dangerous jobs, and as a result they were more likely to get blacklung or die in cave-ins. Since the smarter people died off, the stupid people lived on to breed thoughout Pennsylvania’s coal country. That explains the photo.

My great-grandfather was a Pennsylvania coal miner and died when his mine collapsed, so I’m smart enough to know what I’m talking about.

marioninnyc December 17, 2009 at 11:16 am

I just reread the sign. Note: “Sorry the deer” scrawled in the corner. So it should have read: “We can’t afford to have injured deer on our conscience.” This still doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, but I think offers a slightly clearer picture. This is a dreamlike tableau that has something to do with the fear that the “librals” will take away their guns (symbolic castration) and make them into wimps who lack the capacity to kill critters.

proudgrampa December 17, 2009 at 11:16 am

[re=480430]Citizen Kitteh[/re]: All it needs is the lime and orange shag carpet to look complete.

BadKitty December 17, 2009 at 11:17 am

So how many of you saw the dead deer splayed out all sexy-like on the couch and thought, “I’d hit that” – and not with a car? This dude had previously been convicted of killing a horse so he could have sex with it.

http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003526.html

Gopherit December 17, 2009 at 11:18 am

The only thing I am certain of after seeing that picture is someone needs to apply for money through the NEA. Can you imagine what they could do with funding?

pondscum December 17, 2009 at 11:20 am

This reminds me, I have to pick up my deer from the processor. Yum!

thesheriffisnear December 17, 2009 at 11:21 am

[re=480430]Citizen Kitteh[/re]: The only things missing are a velvet Elvis and the dogs playing cards. Jack Woltz, also.

Terry December 17, 2009 at 11:21 am

[re=480336]ella[/re]:

That’s not an IKEA table. It’s one of those plastic jobs you get at Wal-Mart that has the four hollow, square legs you push into slots on the bottom of the “table top”. Commonly found in college students rooms nationwide, in quite a few ramshackle houses too.

Hamster December 17, 2009 at 11:21 am

[re=480428]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Does our desperation to make some high level metaphor out of the juxtapostion in the photo make us elitist assholes? Or are we charitable for automatically trying to give these people credit for being able to make metaphorical art?

Teeny December 17, 2009 at 11:24 am

I think this picture must be from the Western coal mining part of the state. No way in hell anyone in Wilkes-Barre or Scranton is gonna let a perfectly good deer go to waste on the side of the road like that. Fresh deer meat kielbasi…just in time for Christmas!

Gopherit December 17, 2009 at 11:25 am

[re=480444]marioninnyc[/re]: Yeah, why is the deer sorry? Shouldn’t he be happy that there will be no hunting thanks to limp-wristed veggies that support “Obama’s” healthcare? They should have given the deer a case of cheap beer, a carton of GPC smokes, a SNAP card, and maybe an old soviet flag. That would at least be saying something……saying something stupid, but not incoherent/crazy.

Plus, whoever did that probably didn’t want to give up their SNAP card, beer, and cigarettes. Gotta keep something in the trailer.

mardam422 December 17, 2009 at 11:26 am

Color me ashamed to be from Pennsylvania.

JMP December 17, 2009 at 11:28 am

[re=480449]Gopherit[/re]: The NEA? Only libral prevert commies get funding from the NEA.

Gopherit December 17, 2009 at 11:32 am

[re=480465]JMP[/re]: Then it’s about time some teabagging prevert fascist got some money out of them, too.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 11:32 am

[re=480454]Hamster[/re]: No, I’m pretty sure we’re elitist assholes, but that’s okay. It’s not really elitist if you’re actually superior.

[re=480459]Gopherit[/re]: Which hints at something in these people’s mentality that is just truly bizarre; that they think the Deer actually like, or at a minimum, don’t mind being hunted. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not 100% against hunting or anything, but I’m fairly positive that if you were to poll the deer population, a very high percentage of them would probably be against the practice of hunting.

Hart88 December 17, 2009 at 11:33 am

WTF? Did Lori Anderson move to rural PA and start doing her performance art crap again?

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 11:33 am

[re=480459]Gopherit[/re]: Wait, and here comes the total mindfuck, maybe the deer sign is in some way ironic.

Shit, I think I just broke my brain.

Hominidx December 17, 2009 at 11:34 am

I thought “Sorry the Deer” was its name?

Jim89048 December 17, 2009 at 11:35 am

[re=480452]thesheriffisnear[/re]: Trucknutz®, also.

JMP December 17, 2009 at 11:39 am

[re=480462]mardam422[/re]: There are many times I wish Philly and the near burbs could secede and form our own state, without the redneck-controlled legislature.

[re=480473]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Wignuts do’t get irony; the sign is only ironic like rain on your wedding day.

Gopherit December 17, 2009 at 11:45 am

[re=480473]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Could be. Could be the deer is mocking the teabagging, 2nd Amendment blowhards of western Penn. Hahaha! The libtard Kenyan is ruining your fun, and I get to lay on ur couch.

proudgrampa December 17, 2009 at 11:46 am

Bottom line: it makes no fuckin’ sense.

raysmuckles December 17, 2009 at 11:46 am

[re=480458]Teeny[/re]: Slap some pierogies next to it and you’ve got a fine meal on your hands.

raysmuckles December 17, 2009 at 11:49 am

[re=480339]coolcatdaddy[/re]: Typical liberal: Making up excuses like mental illness. Stupid was the correct answer.

DDD December 17, 2009 at 11:51 am

I’ve come back a few times and looked at this photo again. Now I see the deer (is that really a dead deer?)…and now can make out “Sorry the deer.” Outdoor advertising needs to register a little more quickly…this kind of deep allegory (emphasis on “gory”) doesn’t really work at 50 mph. And I still don’t get it—do hunters really face danger from…deer? I don’t hunt, so I didn’t realize they’re now doing it gladiator-style.

Also, needs more apostrophes.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 11:53 am

[re=480482]JMP[/re]: Why did you have to bring up that song? Why?

[re=480489]Gopherit[/re]: But… But the deer is dead, so that makes it funny to teh conservotards?

Katydid December 17, 2009 at 11:53 am

All I know about Pennsylvania is that my ex-husband’s father’s family came from Pittsburgh. His aunt considers herself an intellectual liberal. After I got divorced, my ex starting dating a black woman. After his aunt met her, she said, “First a Jew, now a black.”

My 6’4″ ex had to be physically restrained from assaulting his 75-year-old aunt.

My ex claims his grandmother was an actual Nazi…but I digress.

Regarding the tableau, I think everyone is ignoring the obvious reference to Dick Cheney. Perhaps he was acting out an important scene from his childhood, for therapy?

Jerri December 17, 2009 at 11:55 am

These people have too much time on their hands. I can’t wait for the economy to pick up so these clowns can at least go work at Arby’s for a spell instead of dreaming up this…lovely craft project.

As for the table, my guess is it’s never even heard of an IKEA, let alone came from one. It looks like it’s a thick yellow plastic table from the ’70s/’80s. I’m pretty sure my mom still has two in the basement.

Gopherit December 17, 2009 at 11:59 am

[re=480498]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Sure. You see, even the deer is a victim of obama’s socialist medicine. it’s allegorical.

Botswana Meat Commission FC December 17, 2009 at 11:59 am

That end table is definitely the table named “LACK” from Ikea.

I’m ashamed to know this but my whole house is filled with Ikea junk.

Prommie December 17, 2009 at 12:03 pm

Wait, wait, I get it, I get it; The deer is telling the hunters that he is staying home, that he is not going to go out and let them hunt him/her, because the deer does not want wounded hunters on his/her conscience. Thats why it says “stayen home,” thats Pennsyltuckian for “I am staying home.” And thats why its funny, see, the deer is home on its couch watching its TV.

See, its funny because deer don’t have couches and TVs.

TheWaltonFirm December 17, 2009 at 12:05 pm

This is a bold re-invention of the nativity scene, I will resurrect it for the next war on xmas

user-of-owls December 17, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Looks like we’re entering the same 100 year cycle of the 1900s. Start off with a splendid multinatiional war (or two), an economic crisis…and now this. The 2000s will have their very own Dada it appears. Who would have predicted it would start in Coal Dust, PA though?

Gopherit December 17, 2009 at 12:09 pm

[re=480508]Prommie[/re]: At least they stayed with the ALL CAPS crazy rant motif. How can anyone print that well when they were obviously drunk out of their minds?

Citizen Kitteh December 17, 2009 at 12:14 pm

> That end table is definitely the table named “LACK” from Ikea.

Nope. From the pictures online, the LACK model from Ikea is svelte compared to the squatty glory we see in the picture. Also noticed the nice ivory tinting – I assume from sheer age and also from sitting in an environment filled with tobacco smoke.

sludjbunni December 17, 2009 at 12:18 pm

But the road signs remain unventilated => Respect for law and order.

spacecadetjoe December 17, 2009 at 12:20 pm

I love installation art

FMA December 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm

[re=480499]Katydid[/re]: Hell, everyone in Pennsylvania has a 75-year-old aunt like that.

spacecadetjoe December 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm

seriously, this is great. This is the most creative expression of political discontent i’ve seen in awhile. Republicans: MOAR PLS

Sparky McGruff December 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm

[re=480517]Citizen Kitteh[/re]: From the pictures online, the LACK model from Ikea is svelte compared to the squatty glory we see in the picture.

I don’t know about you, but that table screams “high school wood shop” to me.

Redhead December 17, 2009 at 12:33 pm

I figured it out you guys!
Skoalrebel’s second cousin/aunt and her family got evicted from their home, so now they’re forced to sleep in the street and put their stuffed deer on the couch, since they no longer have walls to hang it on, and this obviously all NObama and health care reform’s fault!

Way Cool Larry December 17, 2009 at 12:34 pm

I like how the MPH sign is knocked over in the background– undoubtedly from someone completely discombobulated by this ridiculous spectacle

Sharkey December 17, 2009 at 12:34 pm

I demand to see teh death certifikatt!

Gorillionaire December 17, 2009 at 12:36 pm

Remember when Fox Nooze made that feeble attempt to produce their own version of The Daily Show, and then abruptly canceled it after just one episode?
This thing is not as funny as that was.

Redhead December 17, 2009 at 12:36 pm

[re=480517]Citizen Kitteh[/re]: I think I have that table, in black, used for storage in a closet. It was $7 at Target.

hillarys_left_nut December 17, 2009 at 12:36 pm

Is tomorrow Comics Curmudgeon day? Maybe the Curmudgeon can extract the point here. Right now all it’s doing is intensifying my hangover. I can’t get past this thought: “Somebody DID this.”

gurukalehuru December 17, 2009 at 12:39 pm

[re=480390]bureaucrap[/re]: A good, and obvious point that needs to be made again and again.

Also, this is the best argument for a repeal of the 2nd amendment I have ever seen. US Americans today are obviously far stupider than those in 1776.

Gleep! December 17, 2009 at 12:41 pm

I think you guys are looking at this all wrong- It’s actually an installation by some liberal/union supporter from PA (yes they exist- I’ve seen them) bitching that, thanks to Hopey’s inability to get the senate to do shit, the grand attempt to give us universal healthcare has turned into a give away to Liberman’s wife and her friends in the insurance industry- therefore hunters in PA- many of which lost their jobs and no longer have health care, cannot take the risk that going out in the woods with a large # of liquered up morons whose only safe interaction with a firearm came during the mandatory safety clase that PA makes us all take before we can git to shootin stuff……

the problem child December 17, 2009 at 12:43 pm

[re=480517]Citizen Kitteh[/re]: I think it’s faux Lack. Meaning it belonged to someone who thought $14.95 was too much for an end table.

That said, it still doesn’t explain the lamp-cum-blender.

user-of-owls December 17, 2009 at 12:46 pm

Wanna make yourself queasy? Come to grips with the reality that the Arp-wannabe that put this display together almost certainly is too poor to buy a new couch. So the one in the picture is going right back in the house/trailer/cardboard shack once the installation comes down.

schvitzatura December 17, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Now that the blast furnaces have been dismantled and shipped to Outer Mongolia, the next Damien Hirst is emerging from the hunting blinds of Will Penn’s namesake…

I call this roadside installation, The Square Root of Moran and Tweaker Child, Divided by Zero.

Bravo, shine on you crazy Pennsyltuckanians!

Mojopo December 17, 2009 at 12:54 pm

It is obvious that the deer was electrocuted when it drank from the electric chalice on the end table. As best as I can tell it was a suicide, probably related to low-def TV.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 12:57 pm

Regarding the table, does no one realize that it does not reflect well upon IKEA that its products are indistinguishable from shitty plastic furniture from decades ago?

bfstevie December 17, 2009 at 12:58 pm

[re=480404]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: We learned in komedy school that if you have to explain the joke it hasn’t worked.

Mojopo December 17, 2009 at 12:58 pm

[re=480560]schvitzatura[/re]: Hey, are you from NY? Because we always call that place Pennsyltucky.

I hate driving through PA. At every gas station one can hear banjos in the distance, and your butt hurts instinctively, knowing full well what happened to poor Ned Beatty.

maven December 17, 2009 at 1:04 pm

I believe the guy who shot the deer scratched himself hauling the deer up on the couch, and was turned away from his local for-profit hospital due to lack of insurance and died of gangrene; his friends took his last bits of furniture out of his repossessed house and put them in the street, so this is a protest against the failure of the public option.

Darkness December 17, 2009 at 1:07 pm

[re=480380]x111e7thst[/re]: I wouldn’t even know where to find the jugular on a deer. Clearly we need more deer vampire movies so I can be more well informed.

And add another check mark under the “I don’t get it” column. Or, perhaps under the alternative “I see 5 different interpretations of this art piece and none of them seem likely to match that of the artist” column. Thanks.

caieva December 17, 2009 at 1:07 pm

Pardon me if someone said it already,
but probably it is a land owner who used to allow hunting on their land, which is common,
sometimes free, sometimes for a fee,
but are now using the obamaruination of healthcare to deny hunters access, in case they get “hurt”.
Instead of telling the truth which is they’ve wanted to kick them off their land for years for a variety of reasons but couldn’t get up the gumption to do it until they had a nice liberal excuse.

bitchincamaro December 17, 2009 at 1:11 pm

I had a Nativity scene like this, once.

Darkness December 17, 2009 at 1:12 pm

[re=480497]DDD[/re]: Also needs a comma? “Sorry, The Deer”, would help clarify that the deer’s name isn’t “Sorry”, which made sense on the first pass, because apparently Sorry is already dead.

mookworthjwilson December 17, 2009 at 1:12 pm

The problems in logic and reasoning with this scene make my brain hurt

Joshua Norton December 17, 2009 at 1:12 pm

What’s even sadder is that that type of end table has an actual name. It’s called a “Parson’s table”. I have no idea how I know that. Must be from the time I had the stomach flu and an Ikea catalog was the only thing to read during my frequent trips to the loo.

Darkness December 17, 2009 at 1:17 pm

Ah, you know what this piece is missing? The deer needs to be wearing an Aetna visor with the logo markered out.

Snarkalicious December 17, 2009 at 1:20 pm

Man’s inhumanity to man?

Gopherit December 17, 2009 at 1:28 pm

[re=480599]Snarkalicious[/re]: Well, to deer anyway.

An Outhouse December 17, 2009 at 1:34 pm

Wait a minute, is that really a deer or is it Howard Dean in a costume?

President Beeblebrox December 17, 2009 at 1:41 pm

The meaning of this mysterious piece of art is simple.

The Preznit is a Nigger. And we don’t like Niggers up here in Reel Murka.

Extemporanus December 17, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Why did Obama’s motorcade cold flatten that speed limit sign?

What kind of black guy doesn’t like “40s”?!

CrunchyKnee December 17, 2009 at 1:49 pm

[re=480426]catsquatch[/re]: That gives me a mighty sad.

Flanders December 17, 2009 at 1:51 pm

[re=480419]BadKitty[/re]: So can wanton waste of game.

FMA December 17, 2009 at 1:54 pm

[re=480570]Mojopo[/re]: We here in the great commonwealth also call our home Pennsyltucky. We are at ease with our inner hillbillies. By the way, you shore have a purty mouth…

UnattendedConsequence December 17, 2009 at 1:55 pm

I actually took a couple of art courses in community college about 40 years ago, so I have an eye for this sort of thing… In this installation the furniture symbolizes the foreclosure crisis. The dead deer – clearly – is a metaphor for health care reform. The artist uses the nonsense language of the “sign” ironically, feigning madness. Then there is the striking layering of the Bambi reference – this time Bambi’s mother, cast to the side of the road in an “anti-nativity.” Brilliant stuff.

Johnny Zhivago December 17, 2009 at 1:58 pm

We have people who put signs like this up in New Jersey too…

We usually refer to them as “possibly M.D. (mentally disturbed) individuals” however.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 17, 2009 at 2:10 pm

And I think President Beeblebrox nails it.

desertwind December 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Oh for the glory days of my grandma’s youth in the coal region.

Dining room walls: FDR. John L Lewis. The Pope.

I guess now all they’ve got left is the pope. And Glenn Blech.

bago December 17, 2009 at 2:27 pm

The plowed over speed limit sign in the background is priceless.

GeneralLerong December 17, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Deer looks kinda bloated. Isn’t that a waste of good venison? I mean, where I live [Alaska, of course], roadkill deer help feed the local soup kitchen. They must be rich in that neck of the Pennsylvania woods.
Judging by that swanky couch, also.

chaste everywhere December 17, 2009 at 2:44 pm

They should have taken the picture from the other side so we could see which TV program put the deer to sleep.

Joshua Norton December 17, 2009 at 3:03 pm

World’s worst Burma Shave sign.

Ever.

Binky December 17, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Wait, let me get out my Hick Translator and figure out what this means … “Morons from Penn. should just lay down and die.” Right, I agree!

BeWoot December 17, 2009 at 3:35 pm

I never knew dada but I knew Motherwell.

BeWoot December 17, 2009 at 3:37 pm

Hey, wait. That’s not a lamp, that’s a blender!

chaste everywhere December 17, 2009 at 4:13 pm

[re=480857]BeWoot[/re]: The picture is secretly one of those optical seclusions where first you see a lamp, then you see a blender . . . then you see the profile of a redneck locked in a stare-down with a stag, also in profile, and then the redneck blinks and the stag lunges forward, antlers a-blazin’, and . . . aaauuuughhhh!

zenferret December 17, 2009 at 4:21 pm

[re=480497]DDD[/re]: How about 40 MPH based on the sign that someone knocked over trying to figure out wtf.

wallythepug December 17, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Actually, I had that end table in my room when I was 12 years old, in the early 70′s. It was a yellow, plastic “parsons table” and probably came from K-mart, knowing my parents’ taste.

earnestcivilservant December 17, 2009 at 4:39 pm

[re=480570]Mojopo[/re]: I believe Ned Beatty met his match in West Virginia, which makes Western Pennsylvania look downright progressive.

But seriously, dude, WTF? And why couldn’t they have done this in Michigan? They could do a whole string of them along rural back roads. It could be a tourist attraction.

Of course, since Barry ruined health care, there will be no ambulance to help after the accidents that are bound to happen as gawkers slow down to read the sign and study the questionable table.

gurukalehuru December 17, 2009 at 4:49 pm

These are the people who Hillary thought she could win over.

natteringnabomb December 17, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Whoa there hayna.Didn’t that dang gummint pay to clean up those stinky culm dumps;put out those pain in the ass mine fires;pump zillion gallons of water mixed with a jillion tons of concrete into the ground to keep those deer above sea level.Remember hurricanes’ Hazel and Agnes?The gummint has kept that place flowing in Steg and Gibbons since the 40′s.Good huntin donit!

Traveler December 17, 2009 at 5:14 pm

[re=480392]Prommie[/re]: Don’t quit now – I think you are getting closer.

Violenza December 17, 2009 at 7:41 pm

[re=480404]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Brilliant. I think food can be included in the animals category, because fried chicken and watermelon are funny just cause they’re funny foods! Not for any other reason at all. Just like monkeys and gorillas are funny animals. Didn’t Macaca Allen leave a deer’s head in a black family’s mailbox? Some people…

oldguy December 17, 2009 at 8:03 pm

[re=480648]President Beeblebrox[/re]: Exactly. Although it remains an enigma wrapped in stupid.

Mr Blifil December 17, 2009 at 10:22 pm

Is this what Breitbart is talking about when he espouses more input from right wingers in the entertainment industry?

Alex_P December 18, 2009 at 1:17 am

Animal carcass. Furniture. Incoherent hand-written text.
Elements of nature and modernity intertwined.
A complete repudiation of sanity and meaning.

This… this is art.
And it burns me. I can feel the apoplectic, inchoate rage.
Someone call the Tate.

– Alex

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