Comments on: Balloon Cat – A Cautionary Tale

By: ern malleys cat

ern malleys cat — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:57:35 +0000

ROFLMAO, but as I’m a cat, the L is for licking. I’m back up now.
Jasper’s response is enigmatic because, as you’ll notice, his cards are closer to his chest.
Mr Onthemoon you deserve an award for By Far The Best Drawing Of Animal Hands Holding Cards. Better than a cumby old Walkley any day.

By: Keith is not my real name

Keith is not my real name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:15:19 +0000

@ David Smartt

Jasper IS more valuable then many humans (Holding up an image of today’s email as “proof of life”)

By: acannon

acannon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:59:07 +0000

I love Jasper and Abigail.

By: Dave Smartt

Dave Smartt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:07:50 +0000

Love it!

(PS: I think it also says a lot about how we as humans seem to have more compassion for animals at times than we do for our fellow human being - especially if they happen to be of a different ethnicity)

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:15:36 +0000

Platinum

There’s something strange about Jasper’s last sentence, as if he hopes it will be rapists?

Anyway

Platinum

By: meski

meski — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:02:09 +0000

My suspension of disbelief broke when I hit the word ‘humble’

By: alanjohnston

alanjohnston — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:32:44 +0000

I know a python named Falcon….

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:42:30 +0000

That last line is heavy. I don’t know which version I like best

1. Jasper is too cynical of the lovely public with their flowers and cards, just like some of the public is of refugees
2. Jasper is right, the public are sinister behind their well wishes, given their harshness to refugees
3. The public have the wrong notion of refugees as evil people who are essentially good like them.
4. The public are projecting their own only too own social ills onto a vulnerable minority by way of demonisation.
5. Something else
6. All of the above.

PS Any kid named Falcon was bound for 15 minutes of fame, might as well be this week?

By: Amber Jamieson

Amber Jamieson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:36:39 +0000

Can’t wait for when #ballooncat starts trending.

By: Keith is not my real name

Keith is not my real name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:16 +0000

That’s great FD, I can feel another T-shirt coming on.

By: paddy

paddy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:08 +0000

Beautifully done FD.
The breathtaking cynicism of balloon man has left me bereft of words.

By: Aphra

Aphra — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:04:15 +0000

I loved this! It gave me a great laugh. Thanks, FD.