Made In Turkey
Oct14
Oh Tom, you bigoted son of a bitch.
For those who don’t like his homophobic and racial slurs: Please write all complaints on an old shoebox and throw it in the nearest creek or river. Tom is not supposed to be a terribly likeable character. I think we’ve done a good job of that.
Hey, *I* didn’t look like Borat in 1985. (I was 19.) I variously looked like, dependng on whom you talked to: (1) Thomas Dolby (2) Mick Hucknall of Simply Red (3) Yahoo Serious or (4) someone found a pic of Dylan Thomas that looked astonishingly like me. (I had a mass of wild, somewhat-curly, unruly hair, which I sometimes dyed red, but otherwise resisted all attempts at taming or styling.)
No pictures exist, to my knowledge.
You had hair? Inconceiveable!
Tom reminds me of three coworkers and at least one relative.
Tom reminds me of three relatives and at least one cow-orker.
Redneck runs deep in my family…
Tom reminds me of me….
Borat. LOL. ( Though in the 80s I looked…pretty much like I do now, only younger. Same haircut, same clothing style, same everything. )
As a Jew of Hispanic, Russian (well Litvak), Polish, and German decent, I can tell you that I am the palest, pinkest brownskin on the planet that doesn’t actually suffer from albinoism. I look Scottish, complete with red hair and freckles. Sometimes its damned hard to tell who to be prejudiced against. When I taught school in Florida, all the hispanic kids thought I was a gringo, all the white kids thought I was white, and all the jewish kids were like, whoa!
Omar was one suave bastard.
Looks more like Tom Selleck of Magnum P.I. age… And Tom could almost be my mom, if he followed every statement with “But I’m not racist”
Looks to me like Tom Selleck and Sonny Bono had a love-child.
A’course, I’d have looked much the same (albeit with curly hair) if I hadn’t been in uniform in those days…
I made it back (from a 5 month hospital stay) and get thrust into the past again. I still live and I love this comic, however surprised I am at being older than Omar. The 1980’s…..there were some of those days when men were men, women were scarce, and the sheep were nervous. Other times in the 80’s when coeds roamed the land in great herds and it was a feast. Life seemed to be able to go on forever then. Then I realized it, my world was changing with the end of the Cold War and we had survived (to partying like it was 19-99).
Now I wonder if people realize that Tom was probably one of the last generation raised during a time when public toilets’ were still marked by race and the color of your skin determined if you could sit inside of a restaurant in the South. Mixing was considered a crime and segregation ruled the landscape. It was a different world, it had as many good things as the bad though. We changed in some ways for better and other ways for worse. To the 80’s and us that lived them and survived it.
Welcome back!
I spent most of the late 80’s looking like either Tom Cruise or Keanu Reeves (depending on which ex of mine you ask.)
But Jamming nails it and so do you Jay….Tom is Obviously a Child of the 60’s/70’s Deep South.
Oddly, I sort of DO like Tom. He has an amusing streak of dry sarcasm.
Perhaps not so much in the current conversation, but
that time when Mick asked him to cover for him as Heidi came in looking for him..I bout died.
I find it odd that you can still get the electric razors with a stubble setting, Though due to modern advances in technology you can now adjust the amount of stubble you want.
Back in the day, Wahl marketed an attachment for their electric razors called the “Miami Device”, but the name got sunk out of fear of lawsuits from NBC and the copyright holders for Miami Vice and it was renamed the “Stubble Device.”
Never knew that, thanks for informing me.
Though the reason I didn’t know that is probably because I was born in the late 90’s.
“Dark times, the ’80s. Thank God Reagan saved us all.”
Ha ha! Ees funny, because Reagan elected 1980!
I like the way Tom snarks. I just don’t like him nor his opinions. Nor the way he idolizes the .45 ACP or how he intentionally violates the law to be a mall vigilante. Now I don’t know what his job is, but I’m sure he’s not a cop.
Well, Tom is a Mall Cop
… I like Tom.
“Please write all complaints on an old shoebox…”
No no no, you’ve got it wrong: “Please write your complaints on a dollar bill and mail them to me. Please be as detailed as possible. Use multiple dollar bills if necessary.”