Doonesbury comes to CC

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<p>(And MIT!) Goodness, what will she decide? Will she go with Walden after all?</p>

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<p>Will she decide in Friday’s strip? </p>

<p>We know she was accepted at Cornell, Georgetown, MIT, Harvard, Cal Tech, Rennselaer & RIT. And, of course, Walden. </p>

<p>From this weeks strip:
<a href=“http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2006/05/02/[/url]”>http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2006/05/02/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>She didn’t like Georgetown (“pineapple on pizza”).<br>
Rennselaer & RIT are too “out of the way” - she wants to be near a big city. That probably means that Cornell won’t do either.</p>

<p>Harvard was “too much” – “who wants to start every day getting over yourself?” And the profs at MIT flunked the test Alex devised.</p>

<p>Now there is no way in the world the kid who is unimpressed with MIT and wants urban is going to go to Walden, despite the history & her legacy status. </p>

<p>So that leaves Cal Tech. Unless there is some other college in the running not previously mentioned.</p>

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<p>Oh, she’ll go to Walden.</p>

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<p>Bloom County was the best!!! The only comic I ever really read (unless you count Far Side). I have a Bill the Cat t-shirt from when I was younger :o and I was going to toss it out. My HS sophomore rescued it and wears it all the time. That shirt must be over 20 years old!</p>

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<p>I’ve been predicting Walden for a while now, but I’d love to be wrong!</p>

<p>My all time favorite is still “Calvin and Hobbes”.</p>

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<p>“Bloom County was the best!!! The only comic I ever really read (unless you count Far Side). I have a Bill the Cat t-shirt from when I was younger and I was going to toss it out. My HS sophomore rescued it and wears it all the time. That shirt must be over 20 years old!”</p>

<p>Our 16-year old cat IS named Bill after the character.</p>

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<p>Another vote for Walden and “Calvin and Hobbes”! :)</p>

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<p>One of my most favorite birthday presents–other than my D, born two days before one of 'em–was the complete set of “Calvin and Hobbes” that TheMom gave me last year.</p>

<p>Yeah, Alex is going to Walden. You can just feel it in the story line and set-up.</p>

<p>What I want to know is: where is “9 Chickweed Lane” going to wind up? It’s very sui generis and unpredictable.</p>

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<p>The older brother in Zits goes to Notre Dame.</p>

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<p>She’ll go to Walden and end up with Zonker’s nephew.</p>

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<p>Walden is just such a cop-out if she’s turning down Harvard & MIT. It’s not even accredited. It’s not like Doonesbury characters can’t attend real colleges; Joannie Caucus attended my law school.</p>

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<p>There’s an older brother in Zits?</p>

<p>Did no one else read Dondi in their misguided youth? <a href=“http://www.toonopedia.com/dondi.htm[/url]”>http://www.toonopedia.com/dondi.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>But Walden would have such an interesting Student body and Profs…lets see, we can have </p>

<p>Condi teaching fashion and international relations (I still can’t get over the boots)
Hillary teaching Women and Modern Relationships and How to Navigate the Senate
Cheney could teach good Sportsmanship
and</p>

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<p>Walden might be okay. Isn’t it supposed to be a thinly-disguised Yale –> Trudeau’s alma mater?</p>

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<p>She’s turning down MIT, all right. [url=<a href=“http://www.uclick.com/client/smc/db/2006/05/04/]Today[/url”>www.uclick.com/client/smc/db/2006/05/04/]Today[/url</a>] she went on about stumping some MIT instructors with a trick question. No MIT for this gal.</p>

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<p>Alex may have to start her own college or a fully independent study. On the other hand, if she goes anywhere else but Walden, Trudeau will have to invent a whole new set of characters or only show her when she’s home on break (might be good, actually). Calvin & Hobbes is my favorite, especially when you read the edition annotated by the author. Also, Calvin’s dad is a patent attorney, like me.</p>

<p>P.S. Of course I read Dondi.</p>

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<p>Dondi. My God. Next thing you’ll be asking me if I watched Davey and Goliath on Sunday Mornings before Churche (yes I did, and I still remember that it was on after the “Gospel Jubilee” show).</p>

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<p>He didn’t have any problem doing that when Joannie Caucus went to law school at Boalt – I remember she had an activist roommate and also a gay boyfriend. (I’m showing my age again, aren’t I?)</p>

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<p>In Zits, Jeremy’s older brother is Chad (there’s another way for us all to date ourselves) - he hasn’t been there in a while but when he is you don’t ever see his head, just his body. He’s the perfect BMC (athletic, smart, popular) that Jeremy can never top.</p>

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<p>Dondi and Davey and Goliath and Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo and B&W TV’s and walking five miles to school in the snow…aren’t we too young to have kids in college?!</p>