Doonesbury comes to CC

Parent Cafe
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<p>Well… I don’t actually know if he’s here (any suspicious new screen names?). But the family is busily planning college tours.</p>

<p>I figured it must be off-to-college-time for the Trudeau-Pauley offspring, but I think they’re actually a little older?<br>
<a href=“http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/[/url]”>http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I saw that!</p>

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<p>The twins should be out of college by now. I used to watch Jane talk about them with my baby D on my lap (and she’s about to turn 23). Are there younger ones?</p>

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<p>I didn’t get the comment from [Monday’s</a> strip](<a href=“http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20051024]Monday’s”>http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20051024):

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“M.I.T.? Ugh! Too much bad skin. Let’s scratch that one.”<a href=“What%20am%20I%20not%20getting?%20Are%20they%20talking%20acne%20or%20something?”>/quote</a></p>

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<p>they were born in dec of 1983 and are named Ross and Rachel
there is a boy Thomas who is a year younger</p>

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<p>Well, that’s what I was thinking, moot.</p>

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<p>Thought of CC too. They were going to seven colleges in three days. Now it’s time for Zippy’s offspring to start looking. What a wild tour that would be…</p>

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<p>Another take–the college of the parents ( which most probably enjoyed, etc.) is not good enough for the kids.</p>

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<p>Didn’t get the M.I.T. comment either. Maybe a reference to spending too much time indoors on the computer? Sallow color? I don’t know.</p>

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<p>I think the Trudeau girl went to Yale. Have a vague memory of seeing her name on a list of the 50 most beautiful… in the Yale newspaper.</p>

<p>still there it seems, class of '06</p>

<p>And Ross Trudeau has a sports byline in the current Brown Daily Herald, so I guess that’s where he is.</p>

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<p>Looks like Alex enjoyed a successful application season. I particularly like the envelope from Walden. YOU’RE IN – Nothin’ but love from Walden"</p>

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<p>i want the family from ZITS to start looking, that strip just killsme, i think they have microphones in my car</p>

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<p>I think it will be awhile. Some comics grow (Gasoline Alley, For Better Or For Worst), but Zits looks like it’s content to let all its characters stay the same age while the world around them ages. Too bad, really. I’d like to see them head off to application world myself.</p>

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<p>just picture MOM and SONS conversations, with clueless DAD in the middle, I think we should nudge them along</p>

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<p>Dagwood and Blondie’s kids grew up to be teenagers, but it took them about 60 years to do it.</p>

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<p>who mines the archives for this stuff? and why? oh well, as long as it’s here, I have enjoyed watching the kids grow up and all the characters age in “For Better or for Worse.”</p>

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<p>I’m down to just two comics nowadays: “Doonesbury” and “Baby Blues.” I think “Baby Blues” is sheer brilliance - those two guys have early parenthood NAILED. The kids are growing up, but very slowly, so that every ounce of humor can be extracted from their childhoods. (I have three Zoe incarnations at home, if you can imagine the stress.)</p>

<p>I’ve been seriously disappointed in “For Better or Worse” over the past several years. When Michael and Elizabeth were young adolescents, I thought the strip was just about perfect. I haven’t enjoyed what Lynn Johnston has done with the characters since. I finally gave up after one Sunday strip too many about the wacky adventures of the dogs and the bunny.</p>

<p>My nominations for best comic strip ever: “Bloom County” and “Calvin and Hobbes.” Miss 'em every single morning.</p>

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<p>True that. </p>

<p>How I love to watch the morn with golden sun that shines, up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine
The wind doth taste of bittersweet,
Like jasper wine and sugar.
I bet it’s blown through others’ feet,
like those of …
Caspar Weinberger</p>

<p>An Ode By P. Opus</p>

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<p>I don’t read Doonesbury often but they had that “Nothin’ but love” strip on the front page. Loved it.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060412[/url]”>http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060412&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>:)… Cornell and Georgetown, eh…?</p>