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My god a politician that uses key messages!
Why did no-one ever think of these things before? To think the regular use of ‘slippery’ was just a complete coincidence, or phrases like ‘kiwi’ or ‘national identity’ or ‘sustainability’, ‘knowledge wave’ ‘closing the gaps’ were completely spontaneous.
These Crosby Textor guys are brilliant to come up with such an original idea to actually think up phrases and then use them regularly. Worth every penny they are paid for such a masterstroke.
(whoops wrong thread)
Your sarcasm falls even flatter when you comment on the wrong thread.
insider. the monkeys did nothing to deserve that personal attack. They’re just trying to write the complete works of Shakespeare.
I think people are missing the key (heh heh) issue here, which is that this comic is awesome and the link goes to the wrong place. Functional link, to an arguably even better comic… ok… that’s wrong. It’s not better. But it’s still good. Anyway, link here.
love the description of Tom the Dancing Bug in that link from T-Rex –
“Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling
Tom the Dancing Bug is the weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling, appearing in fine newspapers and websites around the world. People love the strip because of its insightful and hilarious social and political satire. Search engines love the strip because this paragraph contains the words mp3, iphone, webkinz, videos, american idol, ashton kutcher, grand theft auto.”
lol, I didn’t see that, that’s awesome!!!
The site I linked to before demands you become a member or something to get strips more than 30 days old though which is rife with not-cool-ness.
Free archive of all comics here.
cool ad
That is awesome.
God I hope that guy wins.
Did you notice how you have to be a US citizen to make a donation?
Do we have that rule here? Wonder what impact that would have on Nationals entirely altruistic plans to privatise… sorry… I mean ‘ambitionise’ ACC.
t-rex. Yup, you have to be an NZ citizen, permanent resident (or a business registered in NZ, I guess) to donate.