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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:27 pm 
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And his wedding tackle is hanging out.


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Bones McCoy wrote:
The odd obsession with electrical cabling continues.

A single cable for the TV and VCR.
Another for the Standard lamp.
Both running back to a 2 way splitter bar placed on the florr in the centre of the room.

It's about time he replaced that old CRT telly anyhow.


Odder and odder.
Looking closer there is a double distribution block, but only a single plug that's been wired in the extremely dangerous "double loaded" configuration.
Is Thomas encouraging the starting of electrical fires?


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Daley Mayle wrote:
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And his wedding tackle is hanging out.


Not unlike the England supporter in the crowd

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I love how the 'Tattoo Studio' has had to put a sign saying "tattoos" next to the door, just in case it wasn't clear what sort of services it provided. And how the neon "open" sign and open door weren't enough to tell people that it is actually open, so they've stuck another sign outside pointing the way in.

And there's something seriously M.C. Escher going on with that wall on the left.


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A tattoo shop window must be the ultimate nightmare for a bad cartoonist.
Something that not only requires some actual drawing ability to recreate some of the elaborate designs you'd see on display, but which also requires some degree of imagination.

When presented with this particular challenge himself, look what he comes up with.

His only lifeline been the fact that you might possibly still see the occasional traditional swallow tattoo in some rare places, so he can adapt his oft used bird stencil accordingly and save himself some work.

And goodness knows what the shop next door is supposed to be, that small bit of sign means nothing.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:07 am 
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Quentin Bulge phones in from Langwasser Police Station, Nuremburg:

Look, how was I to know she was a real policewoman? Just send the bloody cheque and they'll let me out....today's Thomas? Christ almighty! LIke they carry the Express in German police stations! Right, I'll have to wing it...let's see, lot of stuff going on yesterday, but he won't go near that. Hmmmmm...I reckon another shit Wimbledon reference with a bird, lots of bricks and two people in out of place clothing... probably sportswear. A dog on a lead. Whatever, there'll be a fucking great clue written down in the bottom corner. Just tell them thet once again Thomas double bluffs Desmond with the tried and trusted Alf Garnet gambit...you getting all this down? Yes! Yes! G-A-R-N-E-T. Look, tell them unlike Galton and Speight, Thomas is fully aware that his employer's audience doesn't get it, that he's surely laughing up his sleeve at people who find this sort of crap newsworthy while so much else is going on out there. Chuck in some reference to it all being so evocative of El Greco's Christ Healing The Blind...oh, for fuck's sake...E-L new word G-R-E-C-O...yes! Remarkably similar composition and lighting. They'll never know. A tagline? Oh, try 'Game set and match, Thomas'. That'll work even if it's not a crap Wimbledon one. I'm sure it will be. Yes, all fucking week.

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I reckon it's the gay barber taking up a new job for some additional money, and he does BUMSEX with people in that store.

It explains the sound coming from the door.

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I don't get it.

Is the concept of this cartoon that some players at Wimbledon have got tattoos... so here is a tattoo studio and one of those players is inside getting a tattoo? Is that it?

*bewildered*

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He wants to get out of there sharpish then, the building looks like it's about to topple into the street.


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Clijsters has the tattoo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ennis.html

Sharaova has been criticised for her theatrical grunting.

He's brought the two together in a superb synthesis of tennis iconography.


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Malcolm Armsteen wrote:
Clijsters has the tattoo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ennis.html

Sharaova has been criticised for her theatrical grunting.

He's brought the two together in a superb synthesis of tennis iconography.


Is Bethanie Mattek-Sands related to Liz Jones?? Oh God!! The Horror.


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So tattoos are irrelevant? He just wanted a scenario other than tennis in which Sharapova might be grunting?

I'd have had them walking past a Ladies public convenience, pointing at the speech bubble and saying "I told Maria not to have that fifth pickled egg - 'specially not on top of eight pints of Guinness".

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So tattoos are irrelevant? He just wanted a scenario other than tennis in which Sharapova might be grunting?

I'd have had them walking past a Ladies public convenience, pointing at the speech bubble and saying "I told Maria not to have that fifth pickled egg - 'specially not on top of eight pints of Guinness".


I'm laughing aloud at that one - and I can't even see a cartoon. :lol:

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I'm impressed that one of the pod people is so keen to honour the dead of two world wars that he's wearing eleven poppies. In June. Truly,

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