Dobin potentially to give up day job!
After a big shouting at the other day by Flurby Jim (see 'Flurby Jim Thinks'), Dobin has been forced to go back and consider his validity as both a former sign painter and a cartoonist for all the ages (even the iron age).
What is unknown to many is that Dobin, of 'BatBloke and . . .' fame actually has a day job as a cartoonist for a leading tabloid paper. This fact is so obscure that not even BatBloke knew it until some pygmy sheep sent him a threatening letter which went something like this (this is an old letter, so feel free to join in if you know the words) :
"Dear BatBloke, we understand that you, unlike your mentor and general house guest, Flurby Jim, have not yet fully subscribed to the cause. Do so, or we will kill you using a special merry jig. P.s. Dobin works as a cartoonist during the day. Now don't say we didn't warn you. Or 'Hey - Mr. Mafia man, come on then!' too loudly when in Italy" - the letter
Of course, BatBloke was immediately concerned for Dobin, and went to ask him why nothing of his is ever published. Dobin revealed that he was currently short of ideas, but :
At which point BatBloke was strung up by an equal rights commision despite the fact he hadn't actually said anything even remotely offensive. Rumours that nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition are at this point un-confirmed.
"How come I never get to say anything?" - Bill Gates
"Mar naeme is Markael Kaene" - Michael Caine
Anyway, and more relevantly, Dobin's continued inability to come up with new subject matter has meant that in order to keep the paycheques rolling in (a gravitational oddity which exists only at Dobin's house, and the best explanation of which came from a scientist when speaking to an innocent peasant girl, and went along the lines of 'hell, I dunno, want to come to my house and see my 'microscope'?') has meant he has had to rely on the sort of clichéd rubbish that the tabloids like. For example :
Unfortunately, due to the dictaphone stealing spy returning and stealing my socks just now, I will have to end this story here. TOMORROW : journalist attempts to catch the thieving spy.