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Personification of a spirit of generosity too seldom seen. Pus me in a real dilemma. If it were in the service of something other than a bunch of shiny crap. I’d have little problem with it as a transitional tool to mature compassion if were about: “Let’s all go out and give someone a hand, all year round, because this is our human duty!
But then I wouldn’t have got so many presents …
Ooh look, Barbie’s Orphanage!
I seem to remember one of the naughtier boys at kindy telling me something about a fat red man coming down a lady’s chimney and bringing eggs to all the children on your birthday. Or something. I missed some of it because of all the crying.
Oh, and something about marketing for magic brown fizzy caffeinated cold beverage. Maybe as a contraceptive …
The parental Father Christmas lie is an invaluable early lesson for children ie: be careful who you trust.
And I never got the pony… nor rollerskates. Sure, the pony concept was over ambitious but why no rollerskates? I’m still bitter. Bah, humbug.
It all comes out at Christmas, doesn’t it, pissed uncle Roberto. Mainly at the work Christmas party.
Yep, thanks, Mum. I already asked Dad and he said to ask you.
EMC, thanks for the brown fizzy beverage nasal douche
Now, the phone number for Keyboards R Us.
You absolutely had me there FD.
Lots of thoughtful, deep discussion, pondering an important existential puzzle…….
But then you went and spoilt it all, with that shameful lie in the last panel.
You mean…. he is not real?
Bugger; I wasted being good again.
There’s a creeping curse, I’m telling you
That sweeps across the nation
A veritable host of comments
Awaiting moderation.
Oh patient little comment
Say what’s ailing you !
I’m sure you never said “f*ck” aloud
Or t*ts, or sh#t or sp&w
And words like b^m, or d~ck or ars$
or words that rhyme with “blunt”
Rarely slide through in your contents
Except the ones from Yorick Hunt.
But now it’s time for Baby Jesus,
No-one can be profane.
So returning to my comment,
I’ll just submit the b@st@rd again.
Ever try stuffing an entire pony into a single stocking? Nobody ends up happy with the result…
Andrew L, speaking of your comment leaves me a little hoarse.
Even a little unstable.
Hay, DRMICK, reign me in, don’t stirrup more trouble.
Thanks be to the Tooth Fairy that Julian Assange isn’t in kindergarten any more.
But DrMick, it’s good to be wasted again.
Holden you don’t know how right you are.
Mike Jones; I am taken aback at you unbridled dressage.
I nearly horse and carted when I read your lovely poem.
The rest of us are saddled with the rules and regulations and you and your mate Yorick get away with making the moderator look like a horses ass.
SBH to Hermione SBH
No No No. I never said I promised you a pony (Emily SBH (aside) that’s what the bastard told me when I reminded him I was supposed to get a motorbike) we’ve been through that and you’re not helping.
What’s that? No, um, I don’t think, Santa can….
well um because um….
Yes I know you put it on the list but……..
Oh don’t start crying about it,
And then there’s the email we are waiting on from the tooth fairy…………
Geez Mike the christmas moderator is really out in force. no unsafe toys here
I know someone who’s a Country Member at my mother’s Golf Club.
OK Holden, I’ll remember
A palomino once tried - a night mare.
But “tuff”? Ever tried ramming a sheep in suspenders?
I can’t remember being disabused about Santa. I think it’s a useful sort of cultural deception that assists children to spot much the same issues with religion. I can remember finding out about how babies were made. I was quite sure that my parents had made other arrangements because Mum wouldn’t ever let Dad kiss her. Still think its possible we were all adopted.
Santa is a ” COMMIE Bastard ” , bet your parents didn’t tell you that ?
oh listen darling commenters
oh please all listen do
you know we mainly moderate
so rupert cannot sue
you know there’s only one of us
oh alright, there are two
but they really are so busy
and we don’t know what to do
we’re independent don’t you know
our systems are all poo
there isn’t any money
this is all that we can do
so just this once, for christmas
if there’s one thing you could do
please shut the fuck up about the moderation it’s mostly automated and it doesn’t work very well we get that do you think we’d like to fix it? of course we would but we can’t afford it or to go to court every time someone calls [redacted] a [redacted] (and that happens A LOT) we’d also like world peace and a ride through paris in a sports car with the warm wind in our hair
so merry christmas dogonauts
i love you yes i do
please have a lovely holiday
and make sure you renew
if your subscription is up
the end
That’s the doggie we all know and love… Pizza on Earth
All things in moderation eh? I think I can, but it will take some very cunning linguistics.
Firstdog Comment 21 Dec 7:58 pm
Your Christmas wish is awaiting acceptance
William McGonagall eat your heart out.
My comment, really, it was terse.
To make amends I present this verse.
Have you been to First Dog’s place?
The one at Crikey; it is ace!
It is a real poetic hall
In the spirit of McGonagall.
The perspicacity of the ‘toon
Inspiration for a veritable typhoon
Of poetry of the doggerel kind
I kid you not, it blows your mind.
Just taking a stab at closing off EMC’s italics.
It seems that i space slash rules! Where are the moderators when you need them?
ooh have I made everything leany for evermore?
hahaha
I thought I turned it off when I left the lounge.
Oh dear, noe everything is leany and loud.
Does anyone know the HTML for upside down?
Really EMC, can’t leave you alone in here for five minutes and eveything’s buggered up. That’s it I’m cancelling Christmas! get that tinsel down, and stop sniffing that spray-on snow!
EMC strikes again!
hahaha all of Crikey is now listing to the right
And by the way, I’d just like to say that every bit of frame 3 is just lovely. I’d like that as my life.
Am experimenting with this post to see if I also have a bent to the right. It’s been a couple decades since that phase of my life.
I have never been right. I have been tempted, and I did inhale. This sort of fits with TA getting crikeys pollie of the year doesn’t it? Soon we will have dual subs to the Voldemort, (he who shall not be named), publications.
Geez EMC, try and swing it he other way, this is uncomfortable.
When Firsty pokes his nose into the Dogonaut Lounge and discovers this italic intervention EMC is going to be in Big Trouble.
Three days before Christmas
And the Lounge was a mess.
Ernmalleycats antics
Brought him to confess;
I risked moderation
For a joke that was phallic
And now evermore
We must speak in italic.
It seems almost fitting
To avoid Ruperts spleen
Say — — is a — — -
With a right facing lean.
what?
hahahahahah
Hehehehe EMC broke the interweb
I am SO glad I came back today for another look - I almost missed out on EMC’s Italic Antics. Hilarious!!
MODERATOR: Whaddy do you know? One Moderation brawl I haven’t been involved in!
How many of you know what real ‘Moderation means’? All of a sudden you solve half the political problems of this world, your syntax has never flowed so well and your spell checker finds no fault…But the big ‘M’ comes up and you realise you’ve missed the last post on the day before Good Friday. ……..
Cheers all
ESPECIALLY to our canine MC and resident genius.
First Dog, thank-you. That’ll do, just thanks.
(And I hope you eventually recover from whatever the mean kids did.)
Innocent - your piece of doggerel was more McGonnagal than McGonnagal well done ! Here’s Billy Connolly doing the Silvery Tay the justice it so richly deserves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRKxzL1plKk
Andybob, love your work too
Whoops, I nearly forgot to say
That I had been inspired by you, MJ.
And by Firsty too of course;
(This line would be easier if he was a horse).
Billy Connolly makes that poem sound so good;
I’d ask him to recite mine if I could.
And he makes that poem sound so fine,
But I think even Connolly couldn’t save mine.
Hahahahaha. It’s the Lounge. Even doggerel.