The Shadow Treasurer, The Economy and The Bong Smoking Underpants

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20 Comments

  1. Holden Back
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    I knew the BSU had legs as a character.

    I bet I know who fills and cleans the fridge in that household, too.

  2. michael matusik
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

    wayne is not a charlatan!!! same on you FD
    i assume joe is a “potato” - what a compliment…and as for a bong smoking undies, well that might be better than towelie - the weed smoking towel from southpark, well maybe not
    another keeper!!

  3. Buzz
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 2:14 pm | Permalink

    From the look of the economy in the last frame, it’s a bit nervous about Joe Hockey being behind it. I think Joe Hockey is stalking it: he loves the economy but doesn’t understand it.

  4. Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

    ”Joe went gone round”“?

    Couch potato wearing a Hitlerian moustache?

  5. Andrew Le Clercq
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

    Wow! This “economics” thingy isn’t as complex as I thought it might be. Yet again the indefatigable FD sorts it out. I suggest we lobby to have the bong smoking underpants join the reserve bank board.

  6. Holden Back
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

    Venise, on the basis of that grammatical slip, methinks those underpants have been a corrupting influence on FDOTM. And before lunch! For shame.

  7. Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 3:45 pm | Permalink

    Holden Back, it could sound ominous!

    BTW: The thought of Joe Hockey being a shadow anything makes this poor little brain reel. :) :cool:

  8. zut alors
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 3:52 pm | Permalink

    A mountebank - would Joe have this word in his lexicon? The market forces in frame 3 appear shifty, not sure I’d trust them. Finely depicted, Mr Onthemoon.

    Greeting Dogonauts, just back from our nation’s capital where the new pup from Queensland, Wyatt Roy, crossed my path.

  9. Ern Malleys cat
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

    Where’s Chicken Twistie and the Slug?

    On the economy, if Prop 19 in California can save their economy, why not ours?
    Bong Smoking Undies for Treasurer!

  10. Holden Back
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 4:52 pm | Permalink

    Venise, I used to have a teddy (a scary old-fashioned one with jointed arms and legs). FDOTM’s depiction of the Shadow Treasurer is a dead spit for its head.

  11. Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 5:59 pm | Permalink

    Holden B: Was he a dark chocolate colour and legs that turned at the hip?

  12. Holden Back
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 6:06 pm | Permalink

    Venise: yes to the hip joint - no to the colour. Pretty much as FDOTM has drawn our Joe.

  13. Buzz
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

    Zut - no enfilade fire opportunity?

  14. zut alors
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

    Buzz, not at this stage as he’s still too vulnerable. He explained his maiden speech was later that day. I asked what time, he replied “Ten past six” so the little lad was probably nervously counting the minutes till curtain time.

  15. j-boy57
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

    rex the runt is not happy…….

  16. Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    HOLDEN B: Me too, but in chocolate. :) :)

  17. Roquefort Muckraker
    Posted Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    bong smoking underpants, something to which I aspire

  18. Holden Back
    Posted Friday, 29 October 2010 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    Venise - with a voice box?

  19. Posted Friday, 29 October 2010 at 10:29 am | Permalink

    Yay for BSU!!! \o/

  20. Posted Friday, 29 October 2010 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    HOLDEN B: A U a mind-reader? I was rushing to sit down to the computer and, as I reached for the chair I had this mental image of the bear, together with a wah wah sound. Well done! :) :cool: