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13 April 2012 Cartoon

UPDATE – Cartoon included. Sorry folks – Kokila Patel

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Put it away

Aren’t we missing something here? No wait, just leave it blank, it’s the best cartoon so far!
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April 13, 2012 9:04am
iMP

Who put barbwire in your coffee PiA?
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April 13, 2012 9:09am
mikenmild

At last, a laugh generated by a Kiwiblog cartoon!
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April 13, 2012 9:10am
Griff

This cartoon symbolises the thoughts of the left “empty”
brilliance
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April 13, 2012 9:11am
Other_Andy

Empty space.
This is deep and meaningful…..

The Japanese Zen monk and calligrapher Tetsuzan Shinagawa summarises his philosophy of nothingness as follows:

Everything that is returns to nothingness.
When you have learned everything,
you become nothingness,
and from there you form boundless being.
It is hard to attain real nothingness,
but it is also easy.
By remaining ordinary in your daily life,
by thinking and feeling whatever may come,
you open the way to spiritual peace and enlightenment.
All ends in nothingness.

The empty space or the nothingness also has a tradition in western art where empty space can be symbolised by pure black or white. In his longing for an art of clarity and discipline that somehow reflected the objective laws of the universe.
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April 13, 2012 9:27am
Put it away

No wait, I think I get it… it’s a cartoon of a famous snowstorm that happened some time in the U.S. a century or two ago, of great cultural and historical resonance to someone, somewhere. Apparently. Maybe Ben Franklin invented the snowman? Am I getting warm?
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April 13, 2012 9:29am
tom hunter

Stringer hits one out of the park!

So far out that it can’t even be seen.

Try this instead from the US: Look, Rich People!
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April 13, 2012 9:31am
philu

i’ve got it..!

..it’s a caustic-comment on nacts’ plans for new zealand..

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 13, 2012 9:33am
Elaycee

Nah – It’s a list of reasons why the leeches in our society should be allowed to use the welfare system as a lifestyle choice.
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April 13, 2012 9:41am
Put it away

This is going to be a tough act for the real cartoon to follow. The bar has been raised.
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April 13, 2012 9:44am
cows4me

Sorry Griff it can’t be a cartoon about the thoughts of the left, if it was it would have to included a loud sucking sound accompanied by a large black hole.
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April 13, 2012 9:50am
philu

“..Nah – It’s a list of reasons why the leeches in our society should be allowed to use the welfare system as a lifestyle choice…”

you mean like the dirty-farmers getting $650 million to continue to pollute..?

..i know..!

..and all those rich people ‘arranging their affairs’ to qualify for working for families subsidies/avoid ‘paying their share’..?

..i know..!

..and all those low-wage employers who use the welfare system to help prop their businesses up/boost their ‘bottom-line’..?

..i know…!

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 13, 2012 9:51am
Viking2

Clearly talking about carbon and the left.
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April 13, 2012 9:54am
mikenmild

Thanks tom, although I enjoyed the comments under the Ramirez cartoon even more.
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April 13, 2012 9:57am
Ender

yea philu is right. it’s not like the dairy sector is holding up our economy or anything..
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April 13, 2012 10:18am
cows4me

Oh dear Phil, go to Tom’s site and look up the comment posted by Andrew Mclesih 4 hours ago. I’m sure you could relate.
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April 13, 2012 10:22am
Elaycee

“…avoid ‘paying their share…”

Pot. Kettle. Black.
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April 13, 2012 10:29am
Fletch

Q: what does ‘667’ stand for?

A: The neighbour of the Beast.

bwahaha 😆
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April 13, 2012 10:39am
KiwiGreg

I’ve always liked “668, the neighbour of the beast”
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April 13, 2012 10:40am
philu

so much art-work effort…for such a laboured/weak- pun..?

after viewing a few of yr efforts..i hafta say..

..you need to find a writer …

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 13, 2012 10:41am
Put it away

Ah damn, they went and ruined it.
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April 13, 2012 10:49am
adze

I don’t get it… Surely it’s not just because “bookmark” has “mark” in it? :-/
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April 13, 2012 11:07am
philu

sadly…yes..

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 13, 2012 11:12am
philu

and as far as i can see…it is still about the works of key/this nact-govt..

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 13, 2012 11:15am
thedavincimode

Other_Andy

“… It is hard to attain real nothingness…”

I don’t know about that. The stupid lying lazy magpie appears to have achieved that without even breaking a sweat … ever.
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April 13, 2012 11:26am
KiwiGreg

@ Fletch – “snap” but your guy would be across the road 😛
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April 13, 2012 11:28am
philu

for those of you who don’t know…that (oxymoronically-named) da vinci is part of key’s inner-work-circle..(!)..an adviser..(!)

..boggles the mind really..eh..?..and an interesting window into that ‘classy’ inner-circle..eh..?

..i mean..when you look at the record of comments..

..he/she is so resolutely low-rent/d4j-clone..eh..?

..not a whit of wit/intelligence..

..just a braying boor..really

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 13, 2012 11:47am
Pauleastbay

I know I am just a tits and arse joke type but I do manage to just about function in modern society but could someone more sophisticated please explain this for me, I have no idea to what this alludes. Ta
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April 13, 2012 1:14pm
mikenmild

Well Paul, I think the cartoonist here is talking about the Mark of the Beast (Revelations) and thought that a pun on that – the bookMARK of the Beast – would make a good joke if suitably illustrated. Satan, Death and Carnage at the top of the book mark is probably a blasphemous reference to the holy trinity, repeated the numerals 666, the words Blood, Evil and Devil at the bottom of the bookmark and also by the three visible digits on the hand – just in case the three reference was a bit subtle.

The tassles at the bottom of the book mark are much more interesting, as they appear to be decorated (another Trinity) with a ladybird, a skull and a scrotum. I’m assuming some esoteric significance to these symbols, but have not yet devined their meaning. Possibly they have some Kabalistic significance or some as yet unascribed meaning.

Taken as a whole, though, one is drawn to the conclusion that the cartoon represents a piece of ironic commentary on our postmodern condition.
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April 13, 2012 3:05pm
cha

a scrotum

Mate, if, like me, the only nut sack you’ve ever examined is your own and you reckon that looks like a scrotum…eww..antibiotics, now!.
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April 13, 2012 3:42pm
iMP

The idea of the Devil needing a bookmark to keep his place, I think is quite funny. Cartoons are, after all, light humour
and appreciated on a Friday. As an obscure lesser-known ancient relic (perhaps from the Vatican archives) I think its fun.

But then, some of you guys aren’t much fun.
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April 13, 2012 4:31pm
Dave Stringer

surely the joke is in the palmprint!

(For philU – that’s the lines on the palm of your hand that are used by some to make predictions regarding the life of the body attached to the palm!)
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April 13, 2012 5:53pm
Put it away

“UPDATE – Cartoon included. Sorry folks – Kokila Patel”

That’s OK, we accept your apology for including the cartoon. Just don’t do it again.
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April 13, 2012 6:09pm

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