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Strafe Left: The Formative Years #24
Posted by Tim Stone on April 6th, 2008 at 7:50 am.
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Wow, one I’ve never seen!
Awesome, I love the way the joke slowly sinks in, but then I haven’t had my coffee yet.
Ah, the duality of war.
Oh dear, this one is painfully brilliant :D
Huh? Someone explain, please.
@sana: Check Wikipedia
Great comic.
Ahh, I get it!
The ‘mod’ bit didn’t sink in because the only memories in my mind about Vietnam is Full Metal Jacket, where the guy who nicks Rafterman’s camera legs it on a Vespa…
Non getters: Battlefield Vietnam had scooters in it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA I dont get it.
No need to be a dick about it.
Ah, nobody remembers Battlefield Vietnam, but the scooters were the best. Plus the in-built radio.
Driadan:
…Oh.
Mods. Heh. That’s pretty damned funny, actually.
Best one I’ve seen here. Retroactively keep it up, Tim!!!!!!
Bellboy !!!111!!! etc
this definatly one of the best Strafe Left’s
I suspect the term beatnik’s is more relevant in the US.
They are nothing like Beatniks though.
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Watch the 1979 version of Quadrophenia for a good idea of mods.
I echo Nick. Mods were fundamentally a different thing to beats. They were dressed better, for a start.
(As Nick says – watch Quadrophrenia. At the core, Mods were actually a movement based around an accepting of consumerism while rejecting traditional British values (Italian suits. American Music. Even stuff like the Who turning the flag into suits wasn’t patriotism – that was VANDALISM. All this stuff makes the latterday Mods as Patriotic symbol in Britpop all the more grating).
KG
Plus they fought with Rockers, whereas Beatniks would run away whilst muttering existential poetry and saying ‘maaaaan’.
Possibly.
…okay, you guys need to make your RSS feed not horrible again.
There’s been no game since that has evoked quite the same set of feelings as vietnam, the sweet joy of sweeping over the other teams head with surfing bird blaring out of the chopper…
It was always amusing to see the horror on the faces of the opposition during lan parties when they heard that tune and figured out it who it was on their way! :D
Dezro: Horrible? Seems fine in google reader.
Dezro: It’s a problem with WP2.5. We’re trying to sort it.
(Can you explain what your problem is though, just to make sure it’s the one we think it may be?)
KG