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Lovely.
welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
last week was not the same without you!!!!!!!!!!!!
now whilst you were away, FD, and I an not embarrassed to tell you this, I woke up last Thursday morning at 2am thinking of you…well not you exactly, but your toons – it is time for your own videos, similar to robot chicken, only better!!!
think about it – digital cartoons hold heaps of opportunities for product placement and hence advertising dollars. by the way I also hope you are getting some half decent bucks for your golden greats as well – I have shown 2 people your ten best over the weekend and both will subscribe to crikey…you should be in on a cut of the new subs – 50% at least…
go ask the boss, it will not be an absolute waste of time, as you could write a new strip on how you went to crikey management with this claim and got knocked back…i wait with bated breath
your helpful friend, michael
PS fly - one of our border collies, who’s nose is my avatar, missed you too…buddy, his brother, and hence is not used as an avatar, couldn’t give a shit…he has no taste as he likes Snoppy and even HR Puffenstuff!!
The Powerfox soul leaving the body is a triumph. Doggy.
Welcome back.
We were really, really well behaved while you were away (ahem). Promise.
No, really.
MM - “Fly” - great name for a Border Collie.
GO WAY BACK !
Ouch.
FD: I’ll read the cartoon after this….
1. It’s about bloody time.
2. The natives were feeling very stropy.
3. Walnut said you were grandstanding. I punished her severely. I removed one of her dried pieces of food. (One out of a hundred)
4. She said she is sorry she spoke harshly and grudgingly says ‘welcome back’.
BTW, so do I.
MIKE JONES: You should die of shame for uttering that corker.
Awwww … they’re the saddest eyes I’ve ever seen. Don’t fret, she’s still lovely.
Mike Jones is putting a brave face on it. It was pandemonium while you were out.
There was a fire, and some of the men from Fight Club came over to deal with it, and after that we were all having a drink and congratulating them, and I think someone spilt a drink or bumped someone or something, and then there was yelling and shoving, and I got pushed over and started crying, and some of the girls tried to calm things down, and that worked for a while but I was still scared, and then some of the naughty girls moved your pencils, and, and … welcome back!
O happy day, Mr Onthemoon is back in the Crikey bosom (if I can use that word without the moderator having a conniption).
Obviously, the First Dog desk must be intact otherwise we would’ve heard…
@Ern Malleys Cat
Not ALL the girls were trying to calm things down… I spotted a couple sprinkling itchy powder into a box of Rudd Pets socks. No names.
Welcome back FD. We really *REALLY* missed you and today’s cartoon shows why.
That last frame is a T-shirt made of nettles, that would flay the skin off a failed Jesuit.
The perfect uniform for a Cormac McCarthy community cabinet.
(To be conducted at 35,000 ft above Eyjafjallajokull volcano.)
ZUT ALORS: So that’s where Walnut’s flea powder got to? I suppose they’ve used it all up, if they were putting it in their socks.
Memo for tomorrow
Buy more flea powder for the duchesse.
Doggy, we haven’t seen Denise M for a while.
Did you receive a note from her Mum ?
There’s been a bit of kennel cough going around. I hope she’s all right.
I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59LEuvnzGu0
Mike Jones,
I heard that she’s joined an activist group & is now touring the country agitating for equal rights for fire ants. We’ve seen the last of her in the Dogonaut Lounge.
That’s bad news about Walnut having fleas, Venise…it’s hard to run a tight ship.
I’m being moderated.
ZUT ALORS: I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this, but there’s a big ginger cat just up the street. I swear I saw them conversing the other week. Fortunately Walnut is elderly and both parties have had the necessary operation. But as you say, it is indeed hard to run a tight ship.
Walnut, out! and get off the bloody desk.
Does this new avatar make my bum look big?
@BUZZ: Your ears still stick straight out looks.
Are you a girl dogonaut or a boy one? (Gender CAN make a difference. )
Hold the line Julia, hold the line.
Just let him win it
and then…
BUZZ: I’m not trying to be rude but A) I can’t really see it all that well and B) Isn’t it sorta, kinda, like your other avatar. C) I can’t see your bum; unless it’s on backwards, pun not intended.
Walnut says meow!
Talk about capturing the zeitgeist.
Thank you FD. My thoughts exactly.
Hello FD! ALL the NOISE you lot!
It’s good you got back FD & Venise was asking round for a steer.
I almost forgot to say hello (sorry) ‘cause I was busy picking up poop & someone’s taken all the plastic bags & left paper tissue litter on the floor & everything. Someone else’s been I think tearing pages out of old notebooks? Mental Sums & As You Like it?
Rehabs a memory. Ever grateful. S.
(@ZUT ALORS: thank goodness for tip about socks.)
I’m a girl Dogonaut but this new avatar sucks. I was trying for a softer, more feminine avatar. I’ll go back to the female velociraptor which much better reflects the real me.
Ah sweet Mister D of life, at last I’ve found thee.
A piece of doggerel for thee:-
Spoken by me and a Mister E………
“How canst it be, Mr E
“thou feelest free not to answer me?”
‘Don’t ask me,
‘ask Mister D.’
“Who be he,
“Mister E?”
‘Miss, legend has it that he be D.’
“You mock me Mr E.”
‘You know full well tis a mystery.’
“Be ye not free
to speak one word as to who be he?”
‘Think one plus three Mrs C, but tis up a tree that he be.’
“With one of three?
‘Be he human and I’ll go he!’
“Mr E, I prithee; be he dog? Silly me!”
Or could it be?
I heard tell just recently
Of a terrier dog called Mr D.
A strange name bore he
this sweet dog of mystery.
“Be he the first, Mr E?”
And so it be,
Welcome home Mr D.
PS: You can’t send a poison letter via e-mail. So there.
What bunch of dobbers
fuck it, I’m voting communist
BUZZ: Much obliged. It makes me look small.
Where can I get a Powerfox poster?
Please?
@ zut alors
‘Mr Onthemoon is back in the Crikey bosom (if I can use that word without the moderator having a conniption).’
Let’s use the word ‘bosom’ as often as possible. My vote anyway.
Well, Moira S, Buzz has certainly taken your exhortation to heart !