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First Dog On The Moon

The Creature from the Damp Lagoon

I say Vontsira, you say Vontsira

First Dog On The Moon

Oct 13, 2010

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Holden Back
14 years ago

How long before it’s the Leader of the Opposition?

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Ern Malleys cat
14 years ago

He does an interview like Kevin Rudd.
And he appears to have ‘conveyor belt’ teeth like the Manatee.
Welcome to threatendom Mr Vontsira.

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paddy
14 years ago

Hmm…A “scruffy ferret” named after Gerald Durrell.
Disappointed you didn’t ask him if he used to write for the Nation Review FD.

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SBH
14 years ago

It may slip by other dogonaughts but this is not the first time you’ve spruiked the cuteness of viverridae FD. Other members of the family that have benefited by favourable treatment include the binturong and the civet. I note that these animals are related to the Hyena which is really a kind of cat and not a dog at all (the harder you look the more cats you find EMC. Some that don’t look like cats at all). I also note that Madagascar grows coffee and I wonder if they produce Vontsira coffee, perhaps they should. I also wonder why I’m at work and perhaps I should go home and have a good lie down.

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Andrew Le Clercq
14 years ago

I think on being gripped tightly around the throat like that, Salanoia durrelli would have been well justified in saying: “Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!” in a snarly Charlton Hestony sort of way…

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