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8/17/11 3:14AM
American women lost a generation of their men and American mothers lost another generation of their boys to Nam’BLA. The horrors they saw could never be unseen.
You may not have caught the old blog post where I brought up NAMBLA, constructed this joke, and then withheld it from you so that we could create this very chart, so I’ll refresh your memory. The acronym stands for North American Man-Boy Love Association, and incredibly, it’s real. Seriously, I have no idea how this association treats men from the ages of 18 to, I don’t know, 26, but I imagine they’re not getting any star-treatment. At least not without amazing disguises.
We’ve attempted chart humor once before, and it’ll be sooner than later that we try it again. You’d think that with the simpler art, I could pull my weight by helping in the actual drawing. I promise you, it’s better for the all of us that it’s not the case. Otherwise, you might end up looking at garbage like this ROUGH first draft.
-Jesse
You should have kept the Women (who cares?) joke. Or even better, Women (who needs ‘em?)
Is this really how you feel, Morris? That explains so much.
I guess it’s just my naivete and I’m sure it won’t last, but the spam comments really crack me up when read as serious contributions.
on a much more serious note, this graph could have used a bit more explication. Keeping the “women. who cares?” bit would have actually cleared things up considerably
and for the record I attended the full day edward tufte class so I’m basically an expert in data visualization.
I’m starting to think that you are mad at NAMBLA. Is it because you tried to join and were spurned for your obvious hideousness? Or is it because you were forced to join as a pubescent boy?
Those are your only options… choose wisely.
I think the strip asks the question “Why not both?”
Namblahhhhhhhhh… I think you should send them this chart, maybe they’ll post it on the front page.
Or secretly put me on their registry to sully my good name. Ok, moderately good name.