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No dog can have two masters, FD.
I think you need to convince us that THIS time the policy came out before the cartoon.
First Dog, this may just be your best cartoon ever.
Love it.
So where can I get one of those t-shits?
With “St Tony” and Scott “Peter Reith” Morrison on it?
Was that you on the ABC News website comments, FirstDog?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/21/2878417.htm
I thought the interpretive dance was going to be the Time Warp, as it started with a jump to the left, and then a step to the right and there was even a bringing of the knees in tight. But then he fell over.
That’s when it became obvious it was a policy idea from the Liberals policy-coming-up-with team headed by Kevin Bloody Andrews. (He used to be a child actor you know. He played Eddie Munster. And now he’s in charge of thinking up stupid shit for us to laugh at.) Time warp indeed.
You just get better by the day FD.
(I blame that new haircut myself.)
P.S. That’s an evilly wonderful idea for a T-Shirt KLEWSO.
Whether you love it or hate it isn’t it heartening to see the Coalition have a clear policy on something at last?
Someone please give the Fox News Interpretive Dance Armadillo some water, the little fellow put in a solid performance, a slave to his art.
Yes, print that tshirt. And have a decent range of sizes, and don’t print them with that horrible ink that feels like devulcanising rubber.
The voting intention graph should be 4 quadrant. Like
http://politicalcompass.org
TRIPLETS TO A SEXTET: WRITTEN FOR LOUD STRUMPETS.
Frames 1-5 at every one
I guffawed aloud
so loud.
Children could trust
I’d not guffawed
quite alone.
Frame 6 I froze
like Icelandic ice
hot & cold.
@MESKI: I think make sure you don’t hang your washing out anywhere near Eyjafjallajokull. Chin up.
So when did Tony Abbott come up with this brain-snap - on a bike, in the waves or running through the tulips? No way. He wandered through the WA Mining Museum and saw the filth, poverty and hardship of our old mining communities where men were men and sheep were scared. Bingo - another Opposition IR policy! Suffer the Liberals to come unto government again.
PS FD I loved the reference to Twyla Tharp. Brilliant cartoon!
Fames 2, 3 @ 4 great for t-shirts but frame 4 kinda needs to run around the whole t-shirt, like a hoop, so the writing is clear and visible. I’ve got bruised arms where guys grab hold of me the better to see what’s written on my front.
I dare say EMC, PADDY and MIKE JONES instantly knew who Twylla Tharp is. The best I can come up with is Allywt Praht.
MESKI: Try some lateral thinking. If I double up with laughter at one of FD’s cartoons whatever it is I’m drinking or eating spills onto the “vulcanised rubber” and is easily removed.
FIRST DOG: I had a quick look at TweetDeck and saw Yr Keanelly remark-probably spelt wrong. Were U lusting after the blonde, or decrying all those blokes who do lust after blondes?
This interpretive dance thing is really taking off.
Mr On the Moon, youse a genius!
Yes, something simple?
A “Torquemada the Iron Fryer (Abbott?)”-looking angel/cloud(?) wingnut ears/wings(?) of revenge spewing a big brown “brick”, with lightning flashing from the eye and, down below a junk, kids in mid air, over the side. Then on the back, Scott “Peter Reith” Morrison camera up, and a big cheesy “Say POLICY!!!”
Tony is just using one of Mao’s many stupid ideas here.
A co-worker that was a city kid from Beijing finished his highly technical degree and then was sent out to be unskilled farm labour for a year which was really just a waste of time for everyone. He didn’t know how to do anything so mostly stood around for a year. He didn’t want to be there, the farmer didn’t want him and his contribution to society that year was close to zero. If he was allowed to look for suitable work himself instead it wouldn’t have taken long to find it.
Now Tony wants to do the same stupid thing here, don’t wait for people to find jobs but instead send the unskilled to employers that can’t do anything with them because they want skilled workers.
Hairdressing, an essential service!
PUBLIC NOTICE: Needing more applicants to fill empty TA…er …FE seats.
Look, again! Anybody can trim their own hair & in their own time (look at the sterling public examples). Can’t send the kids anywhere much for a decent education.
TA’s fiddling nwith something while Rome has been near covered in ash. I suspect so.
Nwith. Not a typo. A speech disability. It ruin-ed my favouritist career full tilt.
I started to write a poem too but only got as far as:
I love an armadillo
They roll up nice and round ….
Maybe another Dogonaut might help finish it.
@Meski: I agree about the t-shirt sizes. In December I bought an XL ladies but had to give it to my tiny not-as-well-endowed personal trainer, and it was tight on her!
@Venise: Food never falls into my lap either. And that’s their excuse for grabbing hold of you!
(Note to self: buy a t-shirt without clear and visible writing).
Make that an EXTRA EXTRA and perhaps an EXTRA EXTRA.
BUZZ: (I’ve got the giggles!)
Suggestion for armadillo poem: “They roll up nice and round”
They’ve got little whiffly noses,
And the use of ultrasound
Which they do-some zoologists say they do-in order to ‘see’ ants.
Nice one, V.
My contribution:
I love an armadillo
They roll up nice and round
They make a decent ukulele
And soup to go around.
MIKE J: Gross. Although I’ve heard they taste like chicken. In which case give me a chook any time.
Venise: So I gather. Which is sort of like saying that chicken tastes like everything else
MIKE J: Sort of, I think.
roll-up armadillos are a stand out for a ukulele in any orchestra especially accompaniment with voice … whether that be palm held or our sympathy orchestra that fiddles with a chorus or who signs a hallelujah when it’s appropriate at the end of everything … sometimes seem like a chook … depending on how many strings and babies is congruent it’s complicated ps the soup’s likely like shark infested custard as far as I’m concerned … only good for dropping into to yellow out sometimes in books. (I know. Sigh. Rehab was unsuccesful.)
I was told by a boof on the door next to the banana lounge tonight that armadillos are good for rolling out for a t-shirt. If there’s enough of them it’s libel. I said that’s not funny and not all that original.
That’s odd, I swear one of my comments is missing…..what I was trying to say was
BUZZ: I can see why you may have trouble finding a t-shirt of the correct size!
You did Venise say that. Re: seeing why Buzz may have trouble finding a t-shirt of the correct size. I remember you said it. Leastwise I believe you did.
Cheers. S.
I love an armadillo
They roll up nice and round
In a room of scaly bowling balls
One could hide quite safe and sound
Did anyone see the armadillo on the Japanese game show that was Video of the Day a few weeks ago? It was amazing!
S/he started with a suspenseful spectacular entrance, then carefully read the instructions at the S T A R T (pausing at STAR), then feigned disinterest and started to walk off, but came back and did the circuit with stunning devil-may-care precision, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats gasping in wonder.
@VENISE: Yes. I did find it (I’ve got a memory like REALLY scarey). I saw that you did find it. (We’re all so helpful.)
Sadly, EMC, I DID see the armadillo clip. Not much seems bizarre anymore, does it ?