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Poor Jasper and Abigail! Back to QLD I guess.
Would you be torn to draw a confrontation between Jasper and Julia?
I have First Dog’s autograph on a People’s Princess sticker - a priceless collector’s item now!
Kudos FD. In times of great moment, you have a truly deft touch.
P.S. Perhaps the new PM might appoint you Ambassador to Bali??
Now look what you’ve done First Dog! I hope you’re happy with yourself.
You’ve made Kevin cry. You’ve enraged Jasper. Therese looked lovely, but we know she’s dying inside. The curly boy can no longer respect his failed father figure. And Kevin’s heart valve will probably burst now. We’ll probably see him sleeping in the VW again.
And just so you could become the Prime Minister’s dog.
I’m happy for Julia and Wayne and all that, but did you have to be so Machiavellian? You ate their cake. You drank their tea. You broke their hearts.
PS. Can you get me some duty free in Bali next week?
I hope the Red Power Fox will retain a media spot for Jasper - even if he has to commute
Jasper took the words out of my mouth.
the horror of the new regime has just hit home
are we going to lose Jasper and Abigail?
I don’t know if I will be able cope without Jasper’s rare ability to succinctly capture the zeitgeist in potty-mouthed epithets
can we force Gillard to adopt them?
as a single childless woman, surely she has an affinity for cats, even sweary ones
Jasper has other things to take care of now, starting with ratf — cking the editor over at *** **********.
Since the first exuberant text about the spill from an excited nerd friend at 11 last night, I have been eagerly awaiting the first cartoon of the new regime. Kevin really cried? I feel bad now.
This ones going straight to the pool room (Framed, of course)
Jasper? Julia?
Would Jasper have the will to play footy in the backyard at any old drop of a hat?
Live in a lonely unit next best thing to the dump he likely imagined would get him in the end? Naowww.
He’s got to finish school. The school of fish frozen in the Lodge refrigerator. Jasper remains the consummate mi(aow), mi(aow), f**kin’ this ‘n’ f**kin’ that. Poor Abigail.
My remark was to SKINK’S question, thank you for the floor.
Half of what he draws is meaningless……
But he draws it just to reach you, Julia ….
Ocean child, touch him….
He hair of fiery red is shimmering …..
Glimmering ……..
In the sun ……
So he draws a ‘toon of love……. Julia
So a toast! A little red, whine!
PM Power Fox!!
Oh no, does this mean no more ‘toons of Jasper, media strategist extraordinaire???
And what of Abigail and the lovely scones?
Well, Mr On The Moon, it does rather make the tea towels and the bumper sticker collectors items, dunnit?
And, the question on everyone’s lips: will you be Cartoonist Laureate in the Court of the Power Fox?
last panel - t-shirt
I see an inner circle role for Jasper in the new PM’s office.
As for Ratf*cking the Editor of *** *********, he’ll have to take number and wait. That’s the bosses job.
Can I please have a People’s PM bumper sticker to place over KEVIN07? Got to make the change official.
FD
looks like the bali trip is now cancelled
also most don’t know yet, but rudd’s only concession to his walking is that jasper stays in the lodge
also it is a bit rich if you think that children give two hoots about all this, let alone hang around the TV set watching it unfold - my two teenagers just laughed his morning, with the eldest calling all pollies a bunch of losers
in fact on that note, maybe the bali trip would be best and instead of your cutting insights, we get the best of for a week or so…as i am already over this issue, like i think many others
enjoy
This is very, very serious, fellow dogonauts. We must concentrate. :think: :think:
When J G settles down in the Lodge, we must launch a campaign on the lines of a Lodge without a cat and dog, is no life at all. She will get the point, I hope.
Failing that, Jasper and Co could be present as ghosts. Their wit undimmed.
Julia Gillard’s passing swat at Poison-dwarf, something along the lines of “As you sit there under your third leader…?” was a hoot.
Now I’m kicking myself for not getting a Julia Gillard T-shirt.
Now, there’s an idea.
I felt so sad for Kevin Rudd, he just didn’t understand how the gaol-posts had shifted.
Venise, we live in a time of shifting gaol posts - hard to know which side the criminals are on…..
I like your notion of the ghosts of pets past haunting the lodge - and advising the PM accordingly.
Jenny Morris, I think that’s it ! Toonist Laureat to the PFPM. I can see it now…. sources close to the PM have agreed to stop drawing the Leader of the Opposition as a flag-draped penis…. but only if they can draw Senator Bill Heffernan as a bucket of cat vomit.
I will myself all the time as a non-collector to not ask, VENISE, but … the strain is intolerable.
When you scatted Walnut off the top of where the poor dear -asleep my guess - lounged on your desk top, did she come back and is not she of the age of wisdom? Might Walnut if she is around be interested in a stimulus package if position of Top Cat was offered to a people’s cat of artistic inclination and experience?
Unfortunately, Kevin was left out in yesterday’s cold with no interpreter other than Jasper.
sad:
Disclaimer: I was intending to render Walnut into a ghost, Venise. I now see that comment can be read thus. I fancied her instated in a Republican Cat basket, her own especial desk and you with an especial pension as the keeper. Hmmm. Worse and not even verse.
NOT NOT NOT!!!!!!
I’m here to announce that I cannot accept the position as Julia Gillard’s Cat, as I after the next election I will be retiring from public life to take up the role as Lindsay Tanner’s Cat.
SANDSHOE: Thank God you mentioned Walnut’s name. I’d put her out in the garden, and forgotten about her.
Now she’s back in the house and barking commands at me. A barking cat! I ask you?
She has a lovely basket, and uses it a lot-being a 17 year old she does a lot of sleeping. It doesn’t have any Republican gear on it or in it, but I do have a Republican mouse pad.
MIKE JONES: Thank you for those kind words.
I was quite proud of my brain coming up with the idea of a ghostly Abigail and Jasper.
Please note, my brain and I operate on different wavelengths. Bright thoughts come from ‘the’ brain, whereas all my stupid, daily buggerising around, forgetting to let in the cat, not being able to find a pen, and all that jazz, is strictly my own work.
EMC.
Oh faithless pussy…. So it’s come to this.
Sneaking out the back door, content to be a mere hobby cat, on a hobby farm.
What a dreadful waste of talent.
The rodents of Orstraya will rejoice….But we humble dogonaughts are crushed by your rejection.
EMC: But you will remain in these posts I hope?
Stop washing your paws. I asked you a question.
EMC,
So what are you saying…have you done a hatchet job on poor Ern Malley? There must be something in the water.
I believed EMC is his OWN cat.
Julia hasn’t got a pussy? What about clubbing together to buy her a ferret?
Oh listen there’s Primus - “Winona had a big brown beaver”.
Or there’s that ugly bad mannered little pug, across the road, marking his territory and humping the Bishop’s legs - I hear he’s up for sale soon?
I’ll miss Jasper
Of course the really big unanswered question is will she now move on Barry Hall?
Thanks MoonDog - yesterday’s sketch said it all for me. Surely it’s premature to farewell Jasper though? What’s to stop him continuing in the role of PM’s cat? The company might be better, although perhaps no more premium quality cat food.
@SBH I think the question of Barry Hall has been answered
Exhibit A: http://twitpic.com/1znjdx
The “offending cartoon” is this one. http://bit.ly/dgGGng
So we’ve got two more displaced souls on our doorstep and its not as though they floated in by boat or jetted into Fairbairn. These two ridgy-didge adorables were sent packing in the middle of the night by a political movement after power. Here is a prime example of how easy it is to become an innocent victim of warmongering. Jasper and Abigail are now Australian refugees and its up to the People’s PM to act with compassion and offer this pair room at her inn. I hope we’ve all learned a lesson from this.