Duck sex and international politics

SMBC is a rather fun web-comic. Today's strip:



Oh, so true, so true.

Quiver Quiver Wobble Wobble!

I've recently been playing Nation States, an online game which allows you to control the political development of a fake country by making a few policy decisions a day. It's really a bit like a huge, ongoing version of one of those quizes where you answer questions to place yourself on a political spectrum. Here's my nation, by the way.

Anyway, I have, for some time, been fond the of the phrase "quiver quiver wobble wobble". Some context is required, I fancy. I am, as you may have noticed, a great fan of Stephen Fry. In the early 80s he hosted a short-lived radio sketch show called Saturday Night Fry on Radio 4. It was a predecessor to A Bit of Fry and Laurie, but in my opinion far better.

One of the regular events was the reading of a few letters from slightly mad fake members of the general public. One such letter complained about the show, and asked why there couldn't be a decent show instead, something like "Fat man on a bicycle" (an obvious reference to those radio/TV shows in which someone goes around the country rambling about stuff). Fry proceeded to stage such a show, with him visiting various places, on a bicycle. At some point, Hugh Laurie identifies himself as the then art critic for the Guardian; the following dialogue ensues:

Fry: Hugh, you're meant to be a yokel, not the art critic for the Guardian.

Laurie: Well, you're meant to be fat man on a bicycle.

Fry: I am!

Laurie: No you're not, you're thin and tweedy.

Fry: Quiver quiver wobble wobble!

Fun phrase, I'm sure you'll agree, and at the moment, my blog is the only one on the Internet which mentions it. Imagine my surprise, then, when on viewing my issues in Nation States, I was presented with:

Sadly, I soon realised that the 'patriotic message' isn't actually part of the game; I has set my country's motto to be "quiver quiver wobble wobble", and the issue had simply included whatever the country's motto was. For a minute, there, I thought someone else had actually listened to Saturday Night Fry...