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I’ll go with the slippery pencil pushers.
But only so far.
I’m loving the tiny pink janet frothing at the mouth.
We have an Australia Network? Cool. I suppose. Shrug.
.. And Senator Alston. He sat just in front of me on the Port Douglas shuttle bus once. how I wished I’d had a “save the ABC” sticker..
Hello ‘Shoe..
I vote for programming Bob & Janet jelly-wrestling 24/7 to represent our proud democracy to the region, regardless of the outcome of the tender. It would also stop them writing columns.
EMC, you don’t even want to think about pushing a non-slippery pencil.
ABC editorial - run like an Indonesian abattoir. says it all, FD.
I think that what you’ve uncovered is a great opportunity.
If neither the ABC or the other mob could run a p*ss-up in a school fete - or even sh*t in the forest like the pope, I bet that a bunch of Doggonauts and a pair of bong-smoking underpants laying about in the Doggonaut lounge could put in a really convincing bid for the gig.
Let’s do it Mickey Rooney style - a play within a movie - run by (well, superannuated) kids.
We could call it the “Mr Dog Goes to town 7 X 24” bid.
I’m in. Takers ?
Seldom has First D bean more succinct…..FOX NEWS…”We just report the facts we make up”. Ha, HA, ha ¡ Or, all the news that ain’t fit to print!
Sometimes I wonder what the Americans did to deserve the Dirty Little Digger?
Oooops ‘been’
That’s interesting. KR’sC (so to speak…) has unequal pupils. Sub-dural or Argyle-Robertson, Dr Mick? (I blame Erica Betz!)
Mike,
Ah, the good old Andy Hardy days when he, Polly and the crew would Put On A Show.
Wish I could offer comment on today’s ‘toon but the Bigpond B@stards have decided that I’m permitted to see only the top half of the first line of frames. DrMick aptly calls my ISP ‘Telstra Catholic’ as it’s self-censoring.
There’s a clear image of Jasper right at the top so that may be enough to tide me over.
Mike,
Reminiscent of the old Andy Hardy Days when he and Polly would Put On A Show.
The Bigpond b@stards are at it again: I can only see the top half of the first line of frames, grrrr. But the image of Jasper at the top raises my hopes.
Summed up News Corp rather succinctly FD
.. from murdered child’s voicemail..
Frame 1! The drawing of Jasper! That is so delightful. The legs apart pose and fist on hip! Hahahaha. If only I wasn’t in the library and it’s raining cats and dogs out there in the street. To be banished would wet me more than staying put, suppressing my mirth. Crossing legs.
RHWOMBAT: Subdural or Argyle-Robertson? I think it’s an issue of perspective, Wombie.
PLONK: Hello, Plonk O’. Now there is a bus I’ve never dreamed on. I have sold leather hats by the Mirage Resort pool in a khaki get-up like on safari. I never saw Senator Alston there.
Now I am now equipped with a television it truly sickens me. If you experiment and watch it for one entire day and surf the news you can observe stories change as well as come to the tube half masticated by the hounds of the street.
PLONK: I brought the following forward from yesterday fyi, the address of the website where you can find the key for making faces eg
http colon two forward slashes codex dot wordpress dot org one forward slash Using underscore Smilies
Look down the page to find the sub-heading ‘What Text Do I Type to Make Smileys?’
Hope this help (as Doggonaut Venise says)
Doggonaut ‘Shoe.
Since when has Margaret Simons started running around disguised as Pussy Galore?
Ah! thanks, Shoe!
PLONK: I meant to get back to you much sooner, but I see that Shoe has come to the rescue. I prefer
to Shoe’s 
og: Now, you watch me eff this up. Here goes….
PLONK: Well I tried. The
is a colon followed by twisted and closed with another colon. U already know how to do 
:
SHOE: So great has become my detestation of TV that I watch Q & A on Mondays,
QI on Tuesdays, Spicks and Specks Wednesdays, nothing on Thursday, Haggit, Doggit, or Scroggit-whatever the current thingy is on Frdays. Spooks, if it’s on on Saturdays and nothing on Sundays. So there we are.
‘shoe. Sorry. Medical in joke. A subdural haematoma is a bleed inside the skull which sometimes causes one pupil to get larger. It was also called the Black & Dekker sign, ‘cause one treatment was to drill a hole to relieve pressure. Argyle Robertson pupils are a sign of neurosyphilis. Wombat shuffles off in (emoticonless) shame.
RHWombat. I did google Argyle-Robertson before I commented. Alas, I understand sub-dural haemotoma having attended a friend’s and sat in for a few weeks. Quite funny that enquiry of yours, it seems rhetorical, to explain Jasper.
I myself was thinking of the perspective when Jasper’s head is observed by Onthemoon.
I am shameless myself, Wombie. Have you hurt your paw that you are shuffling?
We are putting out the rallying call to encourage everybody to participate in the Lounge pun run. That means wombats too.
Looks like Plonk feels better now he can poke his tongue out. He is a liberated man.
No worries, Plonk. In reply to your thanks of overt gratitudinal relief.
Venise, I really like oops followed by a colon and preceded by one. Your friend, ‘Shoe.
Paddy, Margaret Simons as Pussy Galore? I must have missed something but gee that seems ludicrously funny to me.
That’s perfectly understandable Venise, that we have ezzackerly the same viewing habits. I would add motogp on Sunday. Did you ever read Nation Review? I wonder how many other Doggonauts were readers.. That twisted colon is something I’d be consulting DrMick about..
Thank you ‘Shoe, but that’s about the only thing.. And note the tongue is out to one side, not straight ahead. That is a worry, too.
I watched a bit of the Australian Network when I was in Singapore last week.
Now I truly realise how little quality television Australia contributes to the rest of the world.
Hey Venise - My TV viewing is very similar, other than my affliction with the need to watch Collingwood games (which is worth every penny of Australia Network when I am in Asia).
If you want to watch some intelligent and thoroughly well researched documentaries and current affairs, allow me to direct you to this website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
and for the financial crisis try:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/go/financial-crisis/
then watch “The Card Game” and “The Warning”.
Makes you weep over the mediocrity we have to endure.
Tired of Bog Pond? Try http://www.exetel.com.au
This is not an ad, this is a recommendation. They use the Optus network, have a functioning call centre (in Sri Lanka) which tells you how many in front of you in the queue and how long you will have to wait, send weekly updates of your phone usage and provide fast ADSL2.
I was recommended by a mate after frustration with AAPT and now use them for 3 mobile phones, landline and internet. You can actually stream programs without constant interruption for buffering.
Hlo Doganuaghts.
A bit tardy but we have had one hell of a blow job up here in the mountains; the Nursing Home in Leura where I am employed was one of the 2 in Leura that kept its roof on despite being 114 years old. Still a bit windy, (gusts to 100k’s), so I am typing with one hand and hanging on with the other.
Wombat - nicely spotted, if it was a cat I would have Black and deckered the left side just for fun, and added a snorkel like the Pythons did.
MJ- the judge in the Hardy movies would play any “expert” the oppo gets to discredit the NBN, Conroy and all things telecommunications.
Mickey would be Conroy and I guess his girlfriend could be played by a blow up doll - (they all looked the same).
Zut - confess your sins man and do your penance and all will be revealed ! - or maybe you just get to go and do it all again and still get sh*tty head and feet pictures.
Douglas,
Thanks for the tip-off. However, it’s actually the wiring/cables which are faulty so I’m probably being unfair in blaming Bigpond: Telstra own/used to own/might soon no longer own the cables. Fortunately, the NBN is scheduled to be installed in this area of inner-city Brisbane by the end of the year so I’m holding onto sanity until then. Just.
DrMick, my sins are so blatantly obvious there’s no need to confess them, no secrets remain. Even News of the World can’t do a job on me.
@DrMick: And to think some poeple tried to accuse you of slacking off when they found you’d been sitting on that roof!
Thank you Innocent.
It was chilly indeeed but I think I have created another problem in advising the lovely individuals in my care to hug each other to keep warm.
Its the 60`s all over again; with added confusion and dementia!
DRMICK: Knotted jim jams?
PADDY: That Margaret Simons/Pussy Galore crack set my recovery back by two days minimum.
DRMICK: Perhaps it was a twisted colon that caused my sickness.
PLONK: My digestive system probably went arse-over tip in sympathy with your toe.
Am groggily coming back to the surface-I think. Bug going around my neck of the woods-unless it was the twisted colon, of course.
PLONK: “Did I ever read Nation Review?” Do quadrupeds have four legs? For better-or otherwise, NR were responsible for educating me.
DOUGLAS F: Thanks for the links. I was going to look at them tonight but can’t miss Leaky Boat and Q&A programme. I wonder if the ABC really have the guts to do little Johnny Howard the ill-justice he, and his rotten Libs so thoroughly deserve?
I am glad you’re bend is on the mend Venise.
The poor old bowel gets called a lot of names, twisted, spastic and irritable to name a few.
Just remember to let things settle naturally; Blocking agents are very bad and lead to more problems.
If you have had your lamp fixed you can use it to see if you are cured.
Lay the light down in front of a mirror, stand over the light and open your mouth. If you can see the light in the mirror, the worst is over.
DRMICK: What more problems? Most interested as I tend to hit pills too readily. Although this time I forgot to take any.
SHOE: My friend, I prefer
it’s very graphic. Love etc.
Sorry, that’s colon shock colon.
It is too colon shock colon. Thanks for that. Love to back and the rest.
Love too, not love to. Hmphh these typos.
SHOE: You had me trying to work that one out. Cheers, love, etc.
‘Fox News - “We just report the facts we make up” ‘
A very funny ‘toon. It has taken 4 days for Bigpond to finally download and reveal the genius of First Dog from 6th July. It was worth the wait.
ZUT: You certainly have a lot of problems with Bigpond. Perhaps you should ask them if it’s anything personal?