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<a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2004/om20040110.html' target='_blank'>Captain Locke's first major Executive Act</a><br><br>You can't let yourself get offended too easily. Especially if over something that someone hasn't even said but what you think he implied. If you're going to become offended, then really, it's your own decission.<br><br>edit: the "1" in 2001 is missing from the subtitle. Can any of you kooky crazy moderators help me out here?

The subtitle field was too long to type the 1, so I deleted one word from the subtitle.<br><br>Anyway, people tend to get oversensitive about things that aren't necessarily insulting them. The door-to-door approach is still done for a couple things like campaigns, soliciting for money, and of course to promote religious conversion. This door to door approach is actually used primarily by Jehovah's Witnesses, since it focuses strongly on trying to educate others in their ways. I do not really see that happening with other christian religions; they mainly try to keep themselves available for people to come to them and assist people who request them for it.

only one reply? <br>*looks around* is everyone dead or unconciouse?<br><br>I will say that people generally will over react, hense why in my belief that anything related to catholosizm in american pulic schools is banned (although it's perfectly alright to celebrate muslim and jewish holidays without sugar coating it with some comercial holiday). I'm not really critisizing the ban entirely, but if your going to ban one religion, don't be prejudiced and allow others simply because they are slightly differant and have a differant historical background. That is one thing in part, I think, that has the christians knickers in a twist. although, it may be those same people, like the ones in this strip, who would try to cram their religious beliefs down your throught at any oportune moment. but then again ,it's children who attend those schools, and they are more interested in playing than prophesizing. But then freedom of speech comes to mind, one of the fundamental values of the US Constitution, which is violated in that way in the public schools. I degress... for if i didn't, this could take a while..... I'd end up going in circles. See, my view is if your going to ban talk of religion from talk in schools, by celebrating other traditions along the same lines and principals (judaism, muslim, and christians have almost the same core behind them) then it seems something is unbalanced, and unequal.<br><br>wow... I haven't done one of those for a little while... ok, my thought on the strip is it's hilariouse. I peronally dislike it when someone tells me I'm going to the location that is hell if i don't convert to their beliefs. I will say, that the nice ones that learn your not interested and then will leave it as that, drop their campaigning, and have a different conversation entirely are alright in my books. For instance, once (during a blizard in which there was about 2 feet of snow in our lawn, and 3 at the doorway path) twho people came to the door (either bravely, or stupidly, i haven't decided what yet) over the mouds of snow to preach to my family. When they found out we weren't interested in converting to their denomination, (After inviting them in from out of the cold) we had a discussion about the political crisis over in norther ireland. long post... maybe i shouldn't post after two in the morning. I should have tried Lockes method towards some of the more stubborn ones.

This one's great <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->

I didn't really read what they were asking, Locke's response took my attention so I didn't bother reading what they said.

Heh, i quite like this one, the only thing is that in the third panel, i can't help but voice Locke as having a really deep and fearsome pirate voice, which is a bit incongrous with his normal one!

This strip has one of the things I love about O&M--the multi-gag. There's more than one joke. There's the joke with Locke's fierce pirate talk, then, just to emphasize that gag, it's juxtaposed against Locke's childish 4th panel plea for rum. I don't know why more comics don't use the multi-gag format. DCS uses it all the time, and that's why his strip is so good--there's more than one thing going on, usually.<br><br>As far as the religion thing goes, I think the average reader is going to assume that the solicitors are Jehova's Witnesses. There's a temple built 3 miles from my development now, but, oddly enough, we haven't gotten any in the past year since they've built it. Maybe they're heading north. <br><br>I also agree with FoxChild's view--if you're going to ban one religion, ban all of them. It all goes back to political correctness. I think they ban Christianity in schools since most people will see it at cramming religion down kids' throats, and not respecting diversity, yet we celebrate minority religion and beliefs to make it look like we're celebrating diversity. I think people felt that since our society was so "un-PC" for so long, now those who were the dominant majority back then are now having to stay quiet about themselves, and those who were the minority are now being given a louder voice than the majority because I think the majority is supposed to be apologizing to the minority now. I just think that PC isn't about making us equal, it seems like it's trying to overcorrect the problems of the past and overcompensate. I'm sorry if anyone interpreted these statements as racist; I tried to make this as inoffensive yet as honest as possible.<br><br>Edit: thanks, Doctor Fred, I didn't see those typos.

No one's offended. I'm not. And it's spelled "multi"<br><br>Edit: And Foxchild, this thread wasn't started untill amost midnight where I am. It'd only been an hour before Tavis posted. I was surprised this thread wasn't started earlier, but maybe DCS was late in displaying the strip.

I like all strips with locke in them but this is one of my favorites.<br><br>Pehaps its the underage Rum reference.

It's really good how O&M has heaps of multi-layering in it (if you look hard enough) but I've never seen any comic with as 'multi-layerdness' as <a href='http://www.ozfoxes.com' target='_blank'>this</a> one.<br>Most of the jokes are based on it.

I swear, next time someone comes to the door selling something or trying to convince me to convert to their religion, I just might do this.<br>This strip is a very memorable one to me.