Cartooned

I got burned by a colleague today. I came back from lunch to find this photocopy of a New Yorker cartoon sitting on my desk:

So I glance it over, and I’m immediately surprised to see mention of the CBC. Most American media don’t know we exist, and their reading public certainly don’t.

Then I read the rest - weird smells, raccoons… HEY! That’s stuff I write about!

For a full five seconds, I contemplated the absurd possibility that a cartoonist had chosen my lame blog to typify all lame blogs… and then immediately realized I’d been had. It is, as should be obvious to anyone less vainglorious and feebleminded, a doctored caption. The original read as follows:

“You want my latest opinion about the President? How about my opinion of Japanes enzyme baths. Or breakfast wraps - you need to hear what I have to say about breakfast wraps!”

She matched the font all right, though the missing endquotes should have tipped me off. The best part about it is that, for all my efforts at photoshopping, this gag was done the old fashioned way, with scissors and scotch tape. Can’t beat the classics.

But I will, colleague. I will…..

Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 03-06-2007 | 01:03 AM
Posted in: Blogging