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Patented ‘Digital Cloaca of Truth’ - I thought Google had inherited that patent with their recent purchase of Motorola Mobility? Stand by to be sued!
i suspect that ‘balance beam’ tm actually belongs to Ltd News
Hmm- mice on a beam-= mise en abyme
To go all po-mo on ya.
@DRPARNASSUS,
Actually, Apple holds a patent on cloacas and managed to halt sales of the Factbricator(tm) in Europe.
Marvellous ‘toon, Firsty. ‘24 Hour News Cliche’ : you’ve summed it up in a nutshell.
It’s too late to showcase the Factbricator on the ABC’s New Inventors but it would’ve been a shoo-in to scoop the grand final trophy.
‘….because shareholders!’ How succinctly you make your point.
FRAME ONE: “”How to get your message out/how to get your massage out”” If the latter suggest hiring a tent.
Hmmm, that truth looks like dangerous stuff. Better be careful with it.
FRAME TWO: “”furthering our own ideological ends because shareholders…”“
Mixed metaphor/mutually exclusive statement?
MODERATOR: you have to be bloody joking!
MODERATOR: Am I being moderated on the sight of my name only?
Nice work FD.
I have asked aloud here a couple of times if the moderator here works for Va Gina Rhina and if she has taken over Crikey.
Now I know.
You have printed the Job Description and Duty Statement for her staff.
MODERATOR: What use is it for me to say I like something written by FD if he ain’t gonna read it for another forty-eight hours; by which time he will have produced another one????
MODERATOR: Can I sue you for harrassment? -the machine, not the person.
ROTFL Dear Moderator. There appears to be a blockage in the factbricator.
(I think Venise has fallen in.) Honk!!
MODERATOR: This is monstrous.
PADDY: Ha!
I don’t believe this.
Would Limited News (“Conservative Lobbyists to the Electorate”) have given “the Back door story” such prominence if that “‘alf o’ David(?) bloke(?)” had said he really enjoyed mistreating other dumb animals?
I’m going to moderate the people who complain about moderation.
Dear FirstDogEnterprises (incorporating L’ Institut de Science de Premier Chien de la Lune):
Please despatch 42 Factbricator(TM) units with all speed to our Melbourne Southbank and Wapping factoidries.
Cheers.
Rupert
PS Was swapping notes with Gina & Mitch last night – is there a mining grade version in development?
Moderate in moderation.
From whatistruth dot org dot uk:
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon
FD: Perhaps people wouldn’t complain if there was a just reason for being moderated.
No, people would complain regardless. As they do. And just because you don’t know what the reason is, doesn’t mean it isn’t a good one. And it was.
Frame 4 :- that “truthful bacony goodness” - is that a “Back-fatter”? Or “Back factor”?
Auto moderation has to be less strict. Let’s face it, FD, the kind of intelligent people that your brilliant cartooning attracts can easily beat auto moderation when they choose to, so it only serves as nuisance value if it’s too strict.
If it was a camel it would have 2 humps - being a “Back-try-on”?
I hope this doesn’t mean the FDOTM Institut de Beaute est fini!
Peau-Meaux?
Shades of Heath Robinson!
The factbricator is an essential tool in the modern cartoonist’s home, particularly useful for breaking down barriers. When you own a factbricator you have no need of moral judgement, the exercise of reason … or even a toaster. You can smell even the crumbs of unfactbricated burning truth as you leave the factbricator to do its thing and take up YOUR position - whatever that may be - behind the microphone of the chain reaction. I can feel a song coming on.
PS: the above is just to demonstrate I have a mouth.
PPS: First Dog, why have you moderated our Venise when she wasn’t doin’ nuthin’. Don’t bother answering even if you’re thinking about it. I am running away with my shoes over my ears lalalalaalala.
‘llo, Plonk. I was myself cast adrift in a slough of despond when you were nowhere to be seen. Plonk, we likely have common people where you live. I am sure of it. It’s the way of the degrees of separation and the world turned upside down.
Dogonauts, ages since I said anything like if ever you are my good social media friends and I love that we have this silliness we share.
So FD, you sold trillions of Digital Cloacae of Truth with Balance Beam Apps and we’ve a fair idea who bulk-ordered! In the interests of future generations would the Moon Institute arrange an instant recall cause the sign outside the local church says: Live in Truth or Die Without It!
PS: Did the Catholic Church buy any of these Moon Factbricators?
Love to you to Shoe
I smell something wrong here. Like Chopper says I smell deads**t.
Mike Jones disappears without so much as a by your leave, and the m**erator starts to act as though it is a stutterer with a dose of the trots.
FD: Prove it! Or better still print the comment with the so called gaffe omitted. Presumably we would all benefit from this bit of arcane knowledge.
” How do you deal with being silenced? “
Easy!…if you mean being moderated on the Crikey boards. You go off your food, you only drink ( beer ) as half as much as you normally do, you don’t speak to people in the street for fear of being moderated, you go off s_x not that you get any anyway, you get a rush of blood and can’t say what you mean or mean what you say and then you develop this strange sensation to want to put your hands around something called a neck….Hmmm!
I’d like to complain.
Oh lordy. As a Rank Outsider (a non-subscriber, in technical parlance) please please let’s not let FDOTM (of all places) sink into the mire of immoderate moderation. Whatever Venise has done (no Venise, please don’t elucidate), can we at least let bygones be bygones and let The Moderator practice the old “forgive us, as we forgive those who trespass against us” thing. Yes?
FRACTIOUS:
All I want to say is … lol
Good to see I wasn’t the only one forcibly reminded of Magda’s Institute de Beaute
Hello Shoe, I missed you too..
FD, I really would like to know what gets moderated - we miss out on an interesting conversation. Venise’s suggestion of seeing the post with the naughty bits texta’ed out would elt us all into the conversation. Please?
Erm, let us..
¡Muy Excelente! Wonder if FD has done one on why the pathetic Australian media did not question why a bribery that shut down a trade industry and a rape and violent human abuse associated to the event was not reported to the police but just to the Australian Liberal MP, but quickly printed the filth to sling the mud.
Adding my voice to the ‘shoe love-in.
‘SHOE: U know I love U.
OT- apart from the bacony goodness bit, but this is just waiting to be FD’d:
http://static.lifeislocal.com.au/multimedia/images/full/1377141.jpg
BTW, FD, the Digital Cloaca of Truth (that goes poot) has to be included in the remodelled Oz coat of arms (along with the ABCIDB and the Katter in the Hat.
We are all Relativists now.
I don’t know about so called scientists but I trust the good sense of the Australian people to spot the truth. Except when it comes to open heart surgery or flying an aircraft. Or how tv works and elevators obviously.
…and escalators, JamesG, hililly hililly hilo vice versa.
