How the internet brings us together

by Richard on September 27, 2006

A cartoon by the splendid Dave Walker.

All too true…

{ 13 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Rodney Olsen 09.27.06 at 7:53 am: I can’t find the cartoon.
2 Dave 09.27.06 at 8:19 am: Thanks Richard - you’re too kind.

Link to the cartoon is here, or if that doesn’t work go to cartoonchurch.com and click ‘blog’.
3 Kim 09.27.06 at 9:23 am: Hi Dave.

Brilliant, as per! If I were God and I wanted to show Job all the strange wonders of the (ecclesiastical) universe, I’d simply tell him to log onto DW’s blog! Leviathan and Behemoth are pedestrian quirks of the imagination compared to the acutely yet gently observed, eccentric and sometimes perverse, panorama revealed on your site.

One thing about the internet toon though. The character on the left seems to be a woman. Bloggers, in fact, are overwhelmingly men, the latter much more so than the former in love with the sound of their own voice and ever-ready for a punch-up. Thus I shall be reporting you to the Church’s Gender Justice Department!
4 Beth 09.27.06 at 2:14 pm: I’m a woman, and I love an argument - the pointlesser the better! I shall be reporting you to the Gender Justice Department for denying me my right to behave in a non-gender-stereotyped way. So there.
5 Kim 09.27.06 at 5:17 pm
6 Richard 09.27.06 at 10:08 pm: Sorry Rodney - I made a hash of the link. But I’ve fixed it now. Apologies to you too Dave.
7 Jan 09.27.06 at 10:49 pm: As with all the best carrtoons, there’s an underlying truth as well as a laugh. I saw this yesterday and used it at Shalom.

Beth, I’ll come with you to the Gender Justice Department. Have you noticed that it is often the same person who provokes a response in you? Not aimed at Kim BTW. In fact , I can often guess who will have posted a provocative comment on a couple of the blogs I read regularly. I just “know” what will push some buttons.
Jan
8 Kim 09.27.06 at 11:02 pm: Bethan is my goddaughter and I’ll speak to her anyway I d*** well please!

Besides, Beth is a lippy heifer herself, and she’s smarter than I am, so I’ve got to pull out all the stops!
9 Olive Morgan 09.28.06 at 8:38 am: More male bloggers than female? You obviously haven’t encountered RGBP (www.revgalblogpals.com)!
10 Beth 09.28.06 at 9:34 am: Calm down, Abba, all is well! Although “lippy heifer”, yet?

Jan, you’re quite right. I confess that, if I’m in a belligerent mood, I find myself scanning the lists of recent posts for people I know will make me mad! Not so very Christian of me, is it?
11 Jan 09.28.06 at 10:20 am: Mind you Beth, some of them are really sitting ducks, especially if I am looking for a target.

Richard, you need a preview button for comments. Seconds before I pressed submit, I saw a totally different vowel I had written in “ducks” which would have made me a big target. LOL
12 Richard 09.28.06 at 12:06 pm: Jan: Mistakes like that would persuade me *not* to have a preview button!
13 Beth 09.28.06 at 3:08 pm: “Duck” is always going to be a dangerous one, for so many reasons! Perhaps we need to get into the habit of substituting “mallard”…