Viz
Here’s a little clipping about Gary’s last serious fall.
Source: Viz – The Bear Trapper’s Hat
Seriously though, R.I.P. Gary, your life was all too short.
Now that the various religious institutions in Ireland are attempting to move forward and put their shameful pasts behind them, I think there might actually be a market for these products. Any way that they can make sure it doesn’t happen again has to be more than welcome:
I might apply to go on Dragons’ Den.
Shamelessly stolen from an old issue of Viz.
I read on another blog that Thursday is National Blasphemy Day. It won’t be long before we’ll all be shot at dawn for cracking jokes about Jesus and his crew (I think; I haven’t read the proposed amendment to the Defamation Bill).
Let’s enjoy our freedom until then though; before we go back in time to the bad old days. Champion columnist of opinionated taxi drivers, Paddy Murray, is already getting himself in a kerfuffle over the indignation of the ‘lefties’:
This is an absolute failure to recognise that being Catholic or Muslim or Jewish or Hindu is as important to many of those who subscribe to those faiths, as being black or Chinese or gay is to those to whom such descriptions apply. Indeed, it is difficult to see where abusive and insulting blasphemy stops and incitement to hatred begins
Well, Paddy, I’m sorry to disappoint you but your faith is not really deserving of the same protection afforded to ethnic minorites or gays and lesbians. Religious beliefs are no more deserving of respect than political beliefs or choice of clothes. They are beliefs, after all. You believe in whatever the hell you want but don’t expect everyone else to respect it. I respect your right to believe in what you want, not necessarily the belief itself. Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Here is a little taster of the Gilbert Ratchet strip in the May issue of Viz. Pope Benedict gets entangled in a condom and receives a ticking off from the Virgin Mary, who provides a nice upskirt for the parish rag.
The proudest achievement of my life, without a doubt: getting a letter published in Letterbocks, in the spectacular Viz. Now if I could only find a job, I’d be on top of the world.
