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February 10, 2006
Leave it [at] Two [days worth of] Beaver[s]
Roger, Lost Beaver of the Canadian Apocalypse, continues his inexplicable visit to Prickly City today. Maybe he's traveling city-by-city announcing the Canadian election returns. Or quite possibly he's in town visiting his cousin Meringue-y the Duck.
The good news is it looks like Scott improved his beaver technique after a rough go-of-it yesterday. Today's beaver is more squat, more height-appropriate. The bad news is when he speaks...Look at the size of the puss on that beaver. Mon dieu!
As I may have mentioned before, I have ZERO artistic talent. So please understand I'm criticizing Stantis' "art" from a fan-of-the-comics perspective. I certainly could not draw my own comic strip and get it nationally syndicated and get my own personal Toby, etc.
However, I took a stab at drawing a beaver with a sharpie (the green beaver pictured above) using my left foot. (OK, it was my left hand. And I'm left-handed.) It may look a little squirrel-like, and I didn't show it opening its mouth (which I'm sure is very tricky), but I think it's kind of cute. At least it won't give children nightmares about the Canadian Apocalypse.
But back to politics. Stantis trots out Ye Olde Charge: People Are So Turned Off By the Hollywood Liberal Elite's Endorsement of Liberal Candidates That They Will Vote for the Other Candidate Just to Prove a Point. This charge, of course, was all-the-rage after Bush won in '04 , on Fox News and other lesser-known right-wing outlets.
So on behalf of the god-knows-how-many Canadians who voted along "moral issues" and booted out the Liberals, I would like to say to Kim Cattrall, Michael J. Fox, Elisha Cuthbert, Rick Moranis, Alan Thicke, Jim Carey, Evangeline Lilly, Dan Akroyd, Meg AND Jennifer Tilly, Mike Meyers, David Foley, Pam Anderson, Celine Dion, Martin Short, and Jason Priestly...
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFT, eh? you hosers.
Comments
What I love is that Stantis ignores the REAL reason why the liberals lost in Canada: corruption allegations. Guess that hits a little too close to home, eh Scotty?
Posted by: The Furnace at February 10, 2006 08:36 AM
In case any gloating, ill-informed rightwinger wanders this way, here's the REAL story of the Canadian elections.
Conservative Party members won 36 percent of Canadian Parliament seats. Liberals captured 103 seats (30.2 percent), New Democrats, which often supported the Liberals in Parliament, had 28 (17 percent) and Bloc Québécois had 51 seats (10 percent).
So Canadians elected a minority conservative government which will need to strike deals with opposition parties in order to govern.
Of course, the United States elected a minority conservative government in 2000 and look where that's got us.
Posted by: jackmac at February 10, 2006 10:04 AM
Seriously, a green beaver? I question your artistic abilities.
Looks a bit like a certain prophet of a major western religion, come to think of it....
Posted by: Sacki at February 10, 2006 10:55 AM
Is this some long, pathetic dig at Garry Trudeau? Who not only writes a funny, liberal comic strip, but who of Quebecois stock and related to the former Canadian prime minister? No, it can't be. Scotty isn't that clever.
Posted by: Annie at February 10, 2006 12:47 PM
