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First Dog On The Moon

The Surplus you have when you’re not having a Surplus

First Dog On The Moon

Oct 23, 2012

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  1. Holden Back
    October 23, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    I hope he also lets them know a surplus is not just for the holidays. Someone will have to feed it and clean up after it . . .

    How do I know it won’t be the press gallery?

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  2. Stevo the Working Twistie
    October 23, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    So true Holden. Surpluses are notoriously hungry, and then they go through that stage at about 18 months of age where they chew absolutely everything. And you might end up with one that howls at the moon. Wait, sorry, that’s Opposition Leaders.

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  3. paddy
    October 23, 2012 at 1:38 pm

    Shame on you FD.
    Always lusting after the new best thing.
    Whatever happened to that poor, unloved deficit?
    You cartoonists are so fickle.

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  4. klewso
    October 23, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    See if you want to keep it after you see what it eats.

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  5. klewso
    October 23, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    They’re related to Nibblonians.

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  6. zut alors
    October 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    What word describes a surplus of surpluses?

    An insight from the Carole Bayer Sager song ‘Don’t Wish Too Hard’ which I dedicate to the fickle and feckless commentariat:

    ‘What you really wanted and what you really wished for
    You never really wanted at all’

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  7. rhwombat
    October 23, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    …so the surplus goes “meep! meep!” and Wiley Rabbot has just had a character building experience with the Acme PM. Toon memes collide.

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  8. drmick
    October 23, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    Spot on again FD. The real joke will be if the wreckers get in next year. With their numbers man unable to see his toes let alone use them when he is doing his sums, they are going to have double the black hole their sums had last time.

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  9. Andybob
    October 23, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    Does it do tricks or do we just sit around stroking it compulsively ?

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  10. Mike Smith
    October 23, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    And I wanted to see FD wearing a surplice. It’d be a service to us all.

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