The Week In Faith – with Abigail and Jasper
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I feel like such a loser for asking but I can’t bear not knowing: what’s TWIF?
I never thought there would be a cartoon that would outdo Warren the Water Buffalo but this one is it!
I laughed out loud so many times at my desk that I was forced to send it to all my workmates. Sheer Brillance FD!
That sound you just heard was that of my mind being blown.
Beppo the Super Monkey!
Each time I read it I find something new to laugh about.
“Death anxiety with a tax exemption” is my new definition of religion.
Well FD. I managed to keep it together, right up to the point of Jasper’s “air quotes”.
After that, it simply degenerated into helpless laughter with beer spraying all over the keyboard and monitor.
A truly classic effort today.
P.S.
If I wasn’t a sick minded sort of person…I might even feel sorry for those poor sods in Canberra next week.
They think “Climate Change”is a catastrophe……Just till they’re confronted with the nightmare that is FDOTM.
BECK I was in your camp with the TWIF stuff………Then I looked at the title.
I blame it on the heat of this here climate change myself.
Angry homosexual pixies - now thatI have got to see! and knitting no less, angrily - DNA! Theres a creation myth for the times!
Only homosexual pixies can knit. Its a popular misconception, but most pixies are very butch.
ROFLMAO.
MASSIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. With double twist and pike too, thus earns Special Bonus Fairy Dust Sprinkling.
First Dog? Question? When you are going to start a Fan Club? Can I organise it for you? Then, when we have a Big Argument and you let me know you can live without me … I can become your first Evil Stalker.
You would be a Very Big Dog … if you have your very own Stalker.
Oh my god. Hahahahahahaha. You are a genius. Instead of arguing with fundies and climate change deniers, I will now point them to this cartoon.
That final panel in particular is crazy funny. Oh man.
The science is in on the ‘helicopter made of reeds’.
Jasper is a denialist pussy.
Ohh I was overthinking it. Thought it was ‘thank [?] it’s Friday’ and was madly trying to think of things that start with W.
In Caption 2 of Today’s (20 Nov 09) Cartoon Strip it states that Xenu will be released from his mountain prison in the year 3156…. but the poster on the wall states 3165 … I need to know the correct year… or my week-end will be ruined. I’ve already noted it in my Blackberry but need to know which is correct .
Hochfelden — I think it’s 3156 on the Abigailian calendar, but 3165 on the Mayan calendar, and 2009 on the Xenophonian calendar.
Well done that dog! It’s a solid 5 stars from me.
““Death anxiety with a tax exemption” hahahaha, and I thought my own definition was quite amusing: Religion - self-help groups for those who can’t face reality.
By the year 3156 (Abigalian calendar) whole libraries will have been dedicated to the interpretation of the asterisk next to ‘angles’. Or is it one of the Picnic Ants?
I think the asterisk has something to do with ‘little angles’ (ie less than 90 degrees) being acute, rather than obtuse (greater than 90 degrees).
Either that or Crikey has cut back on proofreaders.
Alright let’s have a mini competition. A 2010 firstdog calendar to the first creature who can correctly identify the meaning of it.
The description of religion as “just death anxiety with tax exemption” may be one of the most startlingly accurate, the drawings aren’t exactly orange and vase art standard
I believe … it is a metaphor hiding a conspiracy being conducted by Abigail and Jasper. They are the real Masters of the Universe. They are pretending to be Kruddie’s pets. They are really conducting experiments on us all. They are somehow broadcasting all the results to the rest of the Universe, who think Humanity is a scream. At least, they laughed, until we got WMD. They are now cheering on Abigail and Jasper, who are really like our Big Brothers, only we are too stupid to realise it.
Meanwhile. There is a big scheme in the background, on whether to put the hyperspace bypass through Earth or Mars. Abigail and Jasper have only seconds to live! Can the Lone Ranger rescue them in time? *
Is that any good, FDOTM?
Psst Ern Malley’s Cat.
I also have a theory on the *.
It means “I have been told to believe this or have my genitals amputated by Tony Abbot’s Holy Flame Thrower”.
What we call in psychology an “injunction”. An imposed belief system, powered by threat of extreme violence if defied. I run into these all the time in my line of work. They have lost their power to impress me as a result. It just means Hard Work to me.
I think I will lose more marks now, for giving that theory away for free. Mr Dog can be very hard on me because of my cheek. This is why I am threatening to start up his Fan Club. I already passed uni this year, and don”t need more assessments, just some approval in general.
Anglegate — Mediawatch transcript 23/11/09
JONATHAN HOLMES: And now yet another howler (no pun intended) from the crew at First Dog On The Moon. In a, frankly in my opinion sub-Walkley, effort in trying to upset people this so-called “Dog” has made a ‘goose’ of themselves. See for yourself.
VOICEOVER: … with our own little angles…
JONATHON HOLMES: Angles?… Angles?! I think we mean angels don’t we Mr First? You would think with the resources available to the media conglomerate that is FDOTM, that someone… someone!… in the caption department would have spotted this before it was published for all the world to see. We sought a response and finally got this from a spokescat.
JASPER: Fuck off knobnik.
JONATHON HOLMES: Says it all really.
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But I think what really happened is that the overworked and underappreciated cartoonist spotted the error and asterisked it for witty acknowledgement in the frame border, but was distracted from this by Jonathon Green’s cries of ‘Oh McDog you’ve done it again. That is the funniest thing I’ve seen since your last cartoon, and the one before that. Here, let me give you a tummy scratch. And don’t forget to send that nice Ern Malley’s cat a calendar.”
The asterisk is clearly a symbolic manifestation of a modified existentialist philosophical theory. Life has no intrinsic meaning because it is like an asterisk with no reference point. Your own actions construct its meaning.
(What meaning do you WANT to agree is the correct one FD? Remember L Ron Hubbard Axiom 27 An actuality can exist for one individually, but when it is agreed with by others it can be said to be a reality….)
Much as I’d adore a free calendar, it’s hard to see anyone outdoing EMC in the “magnificent brown-nosing stakes”.
The winner is clearly Ernie’s pussy by the length of the straight.
Plus it’s Sunday, I’ve got a hangover, and FD’s given me so many freebies this year
…….. That it just wouldn’t feel right in accepting yet another one.
So I’ll graciously refrain from “letting the cat out of the bag”.
(But perhaps a small discount on the 2010 calendar for being such a considerate fellow perchance????)
Abigail and Jasper are just looking at religion from different angles. The asterisk denotes that the opinions of Abagail and Jasper are their own and do not represent the opinions of the Crikey staff or management - who do not want to get sued for defamation….
Perhaps: “Not To Be Confused With Angels”
Paddy, stop sucking up. I’m not that silly (just slow). It’s not up to you to mark the homework. First Dog, Paddy is being a brown noser, and I won’t stand for dirty tactics today. I’ve already had to discipline one unruly Christian this morning, so would prefer not to have to fight for my scraps of FDOTM attention after that run around the park.
Gee, mate, you set yourself up as a funny cartoon sort of guru … and suddenly everyone wants your calendar, and for free. Is anyone else going to admit they have a FDOTM t-shirt, a tight one, that they paid for, and wear in public? Come on, I dare ya.
(See, I have already contributed to your Fighting Fund? Do you want to give me an elephant stamp today? I’ll even let you keep that story if you hadn’t already thought of it.)
hehe Thank Warren It’s Friday!
Why oh why must the sweet town of Queanbeyan constantly be ridiculed? What about Wagga Wagga, Sunbury, Wollongong or Coonabarrabran?
They aren’t close enough to bait? We can’t see them react?
Sorry Amber, that is a fair point.
OMG FD, I have had so many problems that I’ve only just caught with this, the most extraordinary, brilliant and exemplary opus.
“Death Anxiety with a tax-exemption”
ROTF with multiple shrieks of laughter
I’ll never be able to look anyone in the face again if they tell me which religion they are.
Jasper is an out and out ★ ☆星☆★. With overtones of smarty-pantsism. Fabulous!
However, one thing puzzles me. Zenu is to be released in 3156, but in his frame it says 3165. How come?
AMBER JAMIESON: You do have a point. And Coonabarrabran is a classic, but the one that really cracks me up is Woi Woi.