Tim Blair

Oh, for heaven's sake! Nice Pete shot the deer. Nice Pete was taking Phillipe out for special ice cream, too. Jeez. Sure, a guy builds a special murder van, but does that mean that every time he takes someone for a ride he's going to chop them up?

Stop the hate, Tim.

Yeah, really, Tim -- it's like you think Phillippe will wind up in heaven to steal Roast Beef's girlfriend Molly or something...

Yeah, Tim! Learn to read the comics or you'll turn into a journalist! Or ah. Read comics to turn into a journali-- Argh. How to do this troll thing. (Flips pages....)

Oh never mind. What a sad thing about the deer. I was traumatised by seeing Bambi as a child, and now this. Have they no pity??? Think of the Children™!

Andrea,

My sons saw Bambi with me (they were 4 & 6 it was a long time ago). When Bambi's mom died they weren't worried, when asked why they said "His dad is still there, he'll look after him!"

They didn't think much of winged monkeys either.

By the way - I interpreted the Achewood image as the nice man with the gun coming to help by putting the poor, injured deer out of its misery. Are you people interpreting it some other way?

Did you all notice that the thingy where you put your cursor on the comic and a special message pops up is left over from Friday?

Actually, I don't think I've ever seen Bambi. But I have seen Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer one too many times. I may never get over the trauma. (Mmmm.... venison...)

i don't get it...

Hey Tim I don't see anything on your blog about the World Rugby match.

Comne on man, just becuase it rated billions of viewers more than the AFL Final, doesn't mean you to have to sulk - don't go all parochial and Victorian on us now!

Achewood has taken a definite dark edge the last few weeks - this has been the longest running storyline ever. Whatever happens I hope that Phillipe gets out unhurt. I mean how could anyone want to harm him in that bee costume?

Longest storyline ever? I doubt it tops Teodor's party. Or the Ray and Roast Beef road trip that overlapped the Subway franchise wars.

If you think that's messy, check out this.

Mmmmmm; venison...............

Yeah, he would have shot the deer.

Here in Oregon, road-hit deer are an everyday occurrence. Putting them out of their misery, instead of allowing them to go off into the forest to die of starvation and dehydration, is considered compassionate.

Then you drag the carcass off the roadway and call the road department to have it picked up.

They used to donate the venison to homeless shelters and charities, but I don't think they do that anymore. (Thank you, lawyers.)

freddyboy, try here.

Killin' is a special thing
It's a special thing you do
when you want someone to die

I dispatch police cars from a 911 Center. The other day I got a call from a guy who had hit a deer. It's back legs were broken, it was clearly in pain, so he put it out of its misery.

By beating in its skull with a freakin' crow bar.

You primatives ever hear about reverse, or as we call it here in the States, mercy gear? Jeeze, pulling out your gun. Sure, wake the neigborhood.
Great going ace.

Here in Australia, road-hit feral pig are an everyday occurrence. Putting them out of their misery, instead of allowing them to go off into the desert to die of starvation and dehydration, is considered compassionate and fun.

Then you slice the carcass open at the belly, reel out the steaming intestines and don the carcus as a hat. Drenched in the animals still-hot blood, you creep slowly back in the darkness towards the car where your girlfriend is stitting in bordom, one arm hanging casually out the passenger side window.

When she feels something licking her hand, she'll glance over the side, to meet redeyed gaze of something grinning at her with yellow teeth from the darkness of the car's shadow, it's fur black with sticky blood.

Two day's later you are wed! Yes, we Aussies are a simple folk.

But I doubt you sophisticated yanks want to hear rabbit on about our small town ways.

Ya Amos, I figured it was something like that.

"Two day's later you are wed! Yes, we Aussies are a simple folk."

Amos, those sentimental love stories always make me cry.

Huh. Sounds too complicated to me. In America we prefer to simply bang our mates over the head with our clubs and drag them off into the underbrush.

Which is why they call Australian strine "The language of love".

Ye gods, that's funny!

Is it any wonder network TV ratings are going down?

I mean, you don't hear stories like this on "Friends," do ya?

what an outrage - it's a troll outbreak. swat, delete, block.

Tim, you scared the shit out of me. I thought harm was coming to Philippe. I LOVE Philippe; I will harm anyone who is mean to Philippe.

Thank god, this looks like a false alarm. (If Philippe's creator thinks, in an apocalyptic moment, that he could get away with harming this otter, he is wrong.)

Achewood. I'm sorry, I just don't get it.

Double-psyche!