[0362] Rousing Speech
└ posted on Monday, 26 March 2012, by Novil
- Echo: In the long history of the world, only the foxes have been granted the role of controlling vermin in such a wide range of habitats. I do not shrink from this responsibility; I welcome it!
- Echo: Let every species know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of the fittest.
- Echo: And so, my fellow rodent, ask not what your fox can do for you; ask what you can do for your fox.
- Sid: As much as I admire foxes, I won’t let you eat my legs.
- Echo: Why do you hate America, you rotten little nut-eater?
You know, Echo, speeches are a little less convincing when they’re about eating your audience.
This explains a lot.
meh, by this time she should have eaten him.
@ Landbark:
I think writing America instead of USA was purposefully done in order to stereotype USA people who keep calling themselves America. And just for the record, I abhor that attitude as well.
Hang on… a squirrel is a rodent but not a “fellow rodent”–foxes aren’t rodents. Rodents are in the order Rodentia, and foxes are in the order Carnivora.
What? A patriotism joke?
Looks like filler. I wonder how long the resolution will be delayed.
“Dammit, SID! How can you resist the vision of an American flag?! It took me like 3 hours to make it appear just at the right moment of my speech and you don’t even appreciate that! Squirrels today…”
That last panel is so true in so many areas
Also, we’re finally getting into Echo’s character and MAN has this vixen guts!
Lucky fellow, Shadow 😉
“No, you imperialist running fox! All power to the
sovietssquirrels! Peace, freedom,breadnuts! And nuts to you! The dialectical force of prey species solidarity will sweep you and your predatory ideology away! ”“You dirty commie red squirrel!”
“Lickspittle individualist hunter! Though actually, that wouldn’t be a bad thing – I’m covered in your drool now…”
NIce speech….you still get a “NO”
where is Shadow? He will stop this with food & eveyone will enjoy a good meal togeather 😉
“Why do you hate America?”
“Because I’m French.”
“Sorry, all I hear is blah blah nazi ideals blah blah blah, and I really hope your doing this for the sake of stalling.”
Great update. Sid can answer “I defend your right to eat, but I don’t agree with eating ME!”
and shadow to the rescue!!
Wha…with a few edits, this could be a real political speech.
Neospector wrote:
Wait, is it a real speech? I just noticed the “john f. kennedy” tag…
Echo charges Sid with going to the other species and telling them the duty of the fox and how they will uphold it. Wouldn’t that be hard to do if she eats Sid’s legs?
@ Neospector:
I know that the end line is a reference to the line “So, my fellow citizen, ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you an do for your country.” by JFK. Not sure about the rest.
In other words….AMURICAA!!!!!
….I’m sorry if I offended anyone….
@ Cinnamoon:
Yeah; I’m liking Echo quite a lot now. 🙂
@ dieselmech86:
Politics know no logic, if they did the politicians would work themselves out of a job.
@ Landbark: It just feels natural to shorten United States of America to just America. USA just doesn’t roll off the tongue. Though, I do understand why Canadians and South Americans could dislike it.
Good thing she didn’t catch Woo instead. He’d start eating her cubs about now.
I think this is my favorite strip ever 😀
@ 1boredcanadian:
And sadly, all too true. That is the collective conscience. I weep for my stupid nation.
Before, I would have clapped at speeches like this and swelled with honor and pride. Now I’m ashamed when I see things like this because I get the feeling that we’re too full of ourselves.
And, no, I don’t think Canadians see themselves as Americans. They are NORTH Americans, but not Americans.
Oh, and at first chance I will turn traitor and sign up for the Imperial Army of Northia. I love it when countries can create Impulse Triggered High-Speed Sphere Accelerators.
Ok, now i need to call someone a “rotten little nut eater”
nice speech, though I thought it was wolves that could kill any creature in any environment? I guess their prey is generally too large to be referred to as vermin though, guess I’d have to bet on the owls in this case, nice speech all the same.
From now on before I eat meats and vegetables I will give them a little patriotic speech.
I see a lack of consistency in the ears, her head looks kind of flat in two panels because the snoot appears shorter. Of course it could just be a problem with the lighting/coloring. And, let’s remember that that I really like being ironic, funny, and annoying.
Still, let’s be honest he doesn’t really need the tail. As an emergency food ration it makes sense. Normal squirrels use them for steering and balance while jumping. However,since our little friend looks like he knows parkour… what was I talking about again?
@ ekimmak:
until her mate steps in with food that won’t talk back.@ ekimmak:
@ ekimmak:
until her mate walks in with food that won’t talk back…
I think Echo’s doing a fine job of consciously distracting herself from her primal instincts here… hopefully on purpose. After all she probably could have took his head off in a split second with a dart forward and a snap of the jaws…
@ Guest:
Because he is CANADIAN!!!! (like me ^.^)
Geez, I wish they’d just KISS already. 😀
pfffft…nice speach echo XD
@ kanatsumi:
Yeah, that’s always bugged me too, how the rest of us are supposed to just take it in the neck and give up our birthright to being “Americans” just because the people of the 13 Colonies were spectacularly unimaginative in naming their country… the Collective Nouns of Hemisphere. Imagine the, dare I say, Germans being so arrogant as to refer to Germany alone as “Europe”, and themselves alone as “Europeans”. Why should or would the rest of Europe put up with that?
Eh, a bit over the top for me today, but I can see where this comes from. There are people who reason much this way, sadly (and annoyingly).
“There is no cost that I am unwilling for others to pay in order to achieve my goal.”
My guess is Shadow gets home soon. (Btw, love the wife’s name. Thematic even..)
@ Adam McCune:
To be fair “fellow vermin” would have been much more accurate. Pretty vermin they may be, but vermin none the less.
I can see why Shadow snagged a vixen like Echo. Nice catch, bud!
Speech Echo. Clever Girl.
@ Renadt:
I shan’t weep for the stupidity of my nation. I’ll just wait patiently for it’s eventual downfall due to gluttonous, greedy corporate bastards. Oh, and politicians….and maybe the French, but only because I feel like giving a bone to the French, since they rarely seem to win anything recently. And by recently, I mean during any and all international wars the French has participated in.
NDividedByZero wrote:
Unless, of course, your audience is into vore. Don’t look that up.
I like that Echo is standing on Sid’s tail in the 3rd panel to free up her hands for more dramatic posing. 🙂
I love this! XD
Ah, I can hear the “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” playing in the background as I read it.
It is an adaptationof passages from Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech.
It was meant as a reply to Neospector. Sorry@ Thiago:
Today, in the world of predation, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Fuchs.” Or words to that effect, I don’t speak German.