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# Anything referencing George Orwell WINS HARD!!!!!!!
Massive click from me matey.

Edit: your cartoon is a bit special too. Attention to detail is admirable (especially the rendering of your shape fitness evolved in the distance)
in fact..... FP this!
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 21:57, archived)
# More Orwell everywhere would be well nifty
'The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think it is worth describing in detail'.

www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/soldiers/george-orwell-shot.html
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 21:58, archived)
# Wow. Thanks for linking that!
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:25, archived)
# More short-form Orwell wonders...
Shooting An Elephant:

orwell.ru/library/articles/elephant/english/e_eleph

The Moon Under Water (or, The Ideal Pub):

www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/moon-under-water.htm
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:33, archived)
# For the definitive 1984 film try this link for the BBCs 1954 production. Just Awesome!
www.archive.org/details/Meatpies_1984
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:00, archived)
# "He shot me, that's fascist"
Edit: I should probably have included some indication that I actually know that Orwell hated the dilution of the word "fascist" and wrote about it.
(funkatron, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:01, archived)
# Well, he was in a war against fascists at the time.
The people shooting at him were literally fascists.

Y'twat.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:09, archived)
# Cliff Richard was a stretcher-bearer in the Spanish Civil War?
(I helped save b3ta! Varmint, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 21:25, archived)
# More!
is here:
b3ta.com/board/10224082
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 23:37, archived)
# Agreed. I can never eat in a hotel restaurant without picturing 'Down and Out in Paris and London'
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:05, archived)
# Easily his best book.
But then I would say that. I am, after all, a tramp.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:11, archived)
# Do you have a top hat with the lid open, and a dog on a string?
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:13, archived)
# Ah, the good old days...
These days I've got a knackered fishing hat and a yo-yo on a chain. Even rats give me a wide berth.
Which is jolly kind of them.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:20, archived)
# I'm guessing
he's of those naked types who wears a barrel with shoulderstraps, like in an old cartoon.
shrink4men.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/man-wearing-barrel-and-suspenders-after-divorce1.jpg
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:21, archived)
# Friend of mine explained divorce to me recently;
They divided his earnings, worth and pension into two exact halves.
She got one half, and her lawyer got the other.
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:31, archived)
# Ta much :)
didn't draw the screenshot tho
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:26, archived)