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31 Comments
Who switched the comments off? I blame Paddy! I demand a Royal Commission.
If the hat fits….wear it.
I have to say, that hat certainly gives you a certain gravitas FD.
Although I don’t know what the world’s coming to, when swaggies have Iphones.
In *my* day, we read respectable newspapers. Like the Herald Sun, or the Truth.
P.S. I hear the Walkleys are going a bit “down market” this year.
So stick this one in the files as a contender.
I just emailed you about that, because I wanted to say that it’s stupid that people have to tell everyone what they think about everything, and I wasn’t allowed to tell everyone that, and everyone should know that I think that.
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Listen here FD.
After you disgraceful performance on the Crikey liveblog of the Logies…..
You’re damn lucky you even have an Ipod to tweet with.
Never mind and actual job……With a comments section!!!
The jolly swagman should take his hand off his blog & pay more attention to his bushcraft - that camp fire looks ominously overly-smoky.
Paddy, are you getting me an iPad? You shouldn’t have. I don’t know what to say.
Brilliant.
”* Andrew Blot” … a typo or a Freudian slip?
Funny either way.
@Zut: He was probably brewing Lapsang souchong. Anyone else love that tea?
^ “He was probably brewing Lapsang souchong”
Is she still under house arrest?
Cough… splutter….another ruined keyboard.
Should the *** beside ‘catherine deveny’ be written *!@$*# ?
Les Hiddins - eat your heart out!
Dear Mr First Dog,
My mum says you pinched the hat and the body language from an old Oz actor called Chipos Rafferty.
I told her “What a load of cobblers!”
Also, Mr First Dog, i think your cartoon is genius. My mum says anyone can be a genios if they work at it.
I told her “Bollocks!” Now I’ve been locked in my room.
Yor’se faithfully,
Kate
“Andrew Blot”? Shouldn’t that be “Andrew Dolt”?
A priceless work of art, FD. Authenticity in every fibre. Do tell if Andrew Blot was an accident?
Ten out of ten, FD.
BUZZ: I was going to enquire re your ring of confidence being shattered on yesterday’s post. But I’m doing it now. What cause it to become fragile, I wonder?
What do you suppose got into Catherine Deveny; too much piss? An expensive drink no?
PADDY: If you feel compromised you may feel the need to pass around the hat. I’m good for ten bucks.
ZUT ALORS: That’s is a v good comment. He could have set alight to the Blackwood tree behind him. But they do take forever to burn.
@Venise: I’m a sensitive soul.
I’m fine, not compromised at all Venise.
In fact I’m sure I read somewhere that Firstdog was buying us all an Ipod!!!
But failing that, I await with bated breath, the new season’s release of the latest FDOTM clothing range…….Le chien chapeau.
@Socrateaze: Make that 2 keyboards.
BUZZ: Clearly you are a sensitive soul. You are always being laden with compliments, by the cognescenti, of course. What more is there?
PADDY: As you are the informed person around here re: First Dog. I think you should ask him when our personal !Pods are due to arrive?
Also are you sure of your facts re: A First Dog hat¿¿¿¿¿??????
Hmmmn
Venise. Moi? Sure of my facts? Never.
That swagman looks jolly miserable.
And who wouldn’t be, with shit from those three coming through on your phone. You used to be able to rely on not having a signal out by the billabong.
I shared a line of coke with Bindi in the toilets at the Logies, and she’s lovely.
‘Twas Andrew Blot from up the Creek
Who caught the racisting craze
He wandered far and from his mouth
Came words that would amaze.
The common man and sheila too
Were struck by his affront
But being decent, one and all
Did not call him a LKEUGFOC9 82 (sorry, keyboard malfunction).
It was Devine that our Amanda too
Weighed into the debate
And proud she was of her attempt
To leaven it with hate
Was best she thought to vent her spleen and
Bucket folks with hues of green
But left to last, tasteless , aghast
We hear the utmost meany
Commits the biggest faux pas of all
Of being Cathrin’ Deveny.
EMC: Yeah, and my name’s Mr Magoo.
Cheers
Venise
MESKI: Lapsang Soochong. Apart from green tea it’s the only tea I’ll go near. It has that lovely smoky smell. Yum.
I shamelessly stole ‘Andrew Blot’ for my own various ramblings the last time you did it and all my friends thought I made it up and laughed.
Thanks for that
@Mike Jones: absolkutely brilliant!
MIKE JONES; I’m in a terrible hurry. Just to say that piece of prose ain’t half bad! Is good.
Buzz and Venise, thank you for your kindness
Mike J,
Just checked back into this blog & am delighted by your poem, yowser. That keyboard malfunction was timely - I was on a razor’s edge in anticipation.
Still trying to free up the n,u,c and t keys, Zut. Chuffed that you’re delighted