Tuesday, March 2, 2010

HAIR HERESY HIGHLIGHTS HICKS

Our Little Darwin masthead cartoon (above) which includes a female, sporting a five o’clock shadow, a hairy armpit and a moustache , holding up a placard which reads VOTE CLP , has been interpreted by some humourless drones as being endorsement for the Country Liberal Party. For the record , Little Darwin was inspired, in part, by that outrageously brilliant TV show , Little Britain , which contained follicly endowed , demure ladies who enjoyed drinking out of fine bone china and nibbling cucumber sandwiches while warding off the attention of male admirers with wandering hands in waterfront cafes.

So we invented the NT’s Curvaceous Lip Party –the CLP – which called on all hairy women to come to the aid of the Territory and stand for election because male voters have a secret fantasy about women who can curl the mo. Then we threw in another CLP – the Crocodile Liberation Party – with the motto: Let My Crocodiles Go Loose, Bruce ! At this stage, the Country Liberal Party protested bitterly, saying having three CLPs to choose from would baffle Darwin donkey voters .

For those unfortunate beings who have no understanding of spoof, satire and sock –it-to-me , be warned : a replacement cartoon will soon hit cyberspace in a major revamp of Little Darwin.