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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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2002-12-25 (midwest.social)

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Seriously though, where does Santa get his raw materials? Does he do work on the side? Something doesn't add up.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In 2002, it wasn't "too soon".

Now, it's ALWAYS too soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I could see this in Cyanide & Happiness since they don't mind tasteless jokes, but yeah I doubt Zach would do another one like this nowadays. Kind of interesting though, given that this was written 3 years after Columbine, which probably had more media coverage than any subsequent shooting. It seems like early SMBC was still leaning more towards C&H-style humor than XKCD-style humor.