“Labor Pains”
Cartoon Pen & Watercolour 9″ x 12″
Copyright 2009 Jean Burman
Yes… it’s irreverent. But heck… someone has to say something and it might as well be me (grin) This is the second cartoon that would have otherwise gone off to the Rotary Cartoon Awards had I not found out that the cartoons had to be without captions… and then later discovered (after the closing date) that captions were fine… (okay *sigh* it’s complicated)
For those not in the know about doings here in the Sunshine State…. um… well… what can I say?
It’s a great place to live!
A bit of background though is probably necessary for the decipherment (yes… there is such a word ~grin~ I checked it) of the above cartoon and now follows:
- Queensland currently has a Labor State Government led by Premier Anna Bligh.
- Anna (rumour has it) is a descendent of Lieutenant William Bligh commander of The Bounty.
- Mutiny broke out on the Bounty on 28th April 1789.
- The ship was commandeered by Christian Fletcher who later sailed off into the sunset.
- Before doing so… Bligh and 18 loyal supporters were pushed off onto the high seas in a 23 foot (7 m) launch.
- They were given food enough and water to last for three days… along with a sextant and pocket watch.
- No maps or a compass were issued.
- They sailed for a year and a day and washed up on the shores of Timor 3,618 nautical miles away (oh okay then) not a year and a day but 47 days later.
- All but one survived.
- Um… you didn’t really need to know any of that… but it was rather interesting don’t you think? Grin.
I’ll close with a quote from J.C. Beaglehole who once wrote:
”[Bligh made] dogmatic judgements which he felt himself entitled to make… he saw fools about him too easily… thin-skinned vanity was his curse through life… [Bligh] never learnt that you do not make friends of men by insulting them” [or their intelligence]
The apple… after all… may not fall so very far from the tree.
I rest my case. (((chuckles)))
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