Doonesbury comes to CC

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<p>It’s not over until it’s over …</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2006/05/11/[/url]”>http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2006/05/11/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>So it looks like I called it correctly back in my post #22?

But then as we all know, high school seniors can waffle and change their mind a few dozen times along the way. Anxiously awaiting tomorrow’s installment.</p>

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<p>Tomorrow Alex is going to discover a “binge drinking” thread on CC and decide to join a convent.</p>

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<p>That one did actually make me LOL.</p>

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<p>Binge drinking anyone?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2006/05/13/[/url]”>http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2006/05/13/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>POLL: from Slate:

<a href=“http://cgi.doonesbury.com/cgi-bin/view_poll.cgi[/url]”>http://cgi.doonesbury.com/cgi-bin/view_poll.cgi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Votes are now running strongly in favor of MIT; I don’t know whether the part about the choice being “honored” means that Alex will go with the choice or not…</p>

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<p>Thanks, calmom. Had to go with Cornell - it’s that “click” thing that happened on the phone with the prof. That says “fit” to me. Don’t know if my little vote will stem the tide toward MIT, though.</p>

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<p>Well I’d go for Cal Tech if that were still an option… but I also voted Cornell. Also thinkng “fit” –</p>

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<p>I couldn’t get through to vote :(</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002503444[/url]”>http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002503444&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I voted, but I don’t think that the use of “honored” necessarily means that Trudeau is turning over control of any aspect of his strip to readers. After all, he’s the one who set up the poll, and wrote the question.
My belief is that the poll winner (currently MIT by a wide margin) will be mentioned, and then some other decision will be announced.</p>

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<p>Curiosity got the better of me, and I fnally got through after quite a few “site not found” error messages not to menton a rather adamant “forbidden” page.</p>

<p>Is this another American Idol !!!</p>

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<p>The results are in! </p>

<p>I won’t tell you, but will let you [read</a> it for yourself](<a href=“http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/]read”>www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/).</p>

<p>(As the t-shirt says, “Love Your Beaver”. :slight_smile: <3 )</p>

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<p>“We’re obviously not trying hard enough to cheat” LOL.</p>

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<p>My faith in the electoral system has been restored. :)</p>

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<p>Or maybe not …</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/NEWS01/606010348&SearchID=73246433698512[/url]”>http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/NEWS01/606010348&SearchID=73246433698512&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Oh, Doonesbury. Yes, nothing like reading liberal propaganda in the comics on Sunday morning. What a comic strip, keeps me laughing for sure!</p>

<pre><code> My, kids get liberally indoctrinated everywhere, including the funny pages.
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<p>Oh please, give it a rest, it’s a comic. Don’t read it if you don’t like its viewpoint. You can read [Mallard</a> Fillmore](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Mallard_Fillmore.dtl]Mallard”>www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Mallard_Fillmore.dtl) if you want an opposing outlook in the funny pages. I don’t read that one myself, but that’s because I found I don’t agree with its author’s politics. You and other young people could choose to make the same sort of intelligent decision.</p>

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<p>Mootmom, there you have my dilemma. My politics tend to the moderately conservative, but Mallard Fillmore is as subtle as a two-by-four across the bridge of the nose. I just wish he were on the other side. Doonesbury is too liberal for me, but the style is more to my taste.</p>

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<p>OK, Sunday’s strip was a listing of the names of all the US military killed in Iraq & Afghanistan, carried over from the previous week’s memorial day strip because there just isn’t enough space in one strip to list them all:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060528[/url]”>http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060528&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060604[/url]”>http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20060604&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So it is now too “liberal” for you to honor our war dead? I suppose you would find the Vietnam War memorial too “liberal” too?</p>

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<p>Doonesbury is so ludicrous in its sayings and teachings. It is the same each week," How horrible of George Bush to declare war on Iraq; dumb George." All of this said by a talking helmet. Boy, much fun.</p>

<pre><code> Hey Doonesbury, if you are here, keep your political comments to yourself instead of spreading the word to young children wishing to actually read something comical in the funny pages. Your only tool to bash Bush is through the Iraq War; you have even gone so far as to criticize our troops. Please, for once, keep your politics out of the comic section; it is for purely entertainment and fun without a political agenda.
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