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02-06-19 04:55 PM #26
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1. The Far Side
2. Calvin and Hobbes
3. Cathy
4. Peanuts2017 - Better than expected!
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
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02-06-19 04:55 PM #27
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02-06-19 04:56 PM #28
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2017 - Better than expected!
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
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02-06-19 04:58 PM #29
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"But what people tend to forget...is that being a Yankee is as much about character as it is about performance; as much about who you are as what you do."
- President Barack Obama
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02-06-19 04:59 PM #30
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02-06-19 05:00 PM #31
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02-06-19 05:26 PM #32
- Join Date
- Apr 2004
- Location
- I live by the Sound
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02-06-19 05:38 PM #33
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02-07-19 07:11 AM #34
- Join Date
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- Location
- I live by the Sound
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ha ha. Cathy was a likable and goodhearted comic but like i say, too many words. Sometimes the dialogue (monologue?) filled up more than half the space. In a 4-panel strip please don't make me read 100ish words to set up the punchline. It's a minimalist form. Write a play or something.
Given the generally liberal bent of the JC (or at least the political threads therein) crowd I'm surprised Doonesbury, which was incredible in the 1970s, didn't get a mention. Also "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow. "Tom the Dancing Bug" as well ("God's Re-election Campaign" from the 1990s is amazing).
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02-07-19 08:32 AM #35
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I would have thought theDurk and JL would pick Doonesbury. I thought there was something in the Yale by-laws about that being mandatory for alumnus.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ~ Dale Carnegie
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02-07-19 09:33 AM #36
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I did like Doonebury. That was the only comic in the Yale Daily News and I did read it for those years. I was a particular fan of Lacey Davenport whose real life inspiration was our NJ District 5 House Rep, Millicent Fenwick, of badass pipe-smoking fame. Millicent was from my town, was a friend of my mother's and she helped get me my first real job after college.
"Deep to left! Yastrzemski will not get it! It's a home run! A three-run homer by Bucky Dent! And the Yankees now lead by a score of 3-2!" - New York Yankees announcer Bill White (October 2, 1978)
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02-07-19 11:22 AM #37
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02-07-19 11:23 AM #38
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02-07-19 12:05 PM #39
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02-07-19 12:44 PM #40
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Doonesbury was great. I should clearly have given it HM, but it would not have ousted Little Nemo.
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02-07-19 01:14 PM #41
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02-09-19 07:44 AM #42
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Holy Crap. Totally missed this one (tough week at work).
Too late for the ranking, but John's original list would be ranked as:
1. Calvin and Hobbes
2. Far Side
3. Peanuts
I could have added any number of strips to the list with Doonesbury getting inserted at the top.
But that's not to say that Peanuts is bad. In fact, it's the gold standard for comic strips in my opinion. Far Side was standard issue for many people's Strip a Day Calendars in the 80's and 90's.
Dilbert is one that you swear that Scott Adams worked on the other side of your cubicle. Funny thing is I had a friend who worked with Scott Adams WAAAAY back when.
For many years, I delivered newspapers back in the 70's. Blondie, Funky Winkerbean, Blondie, Wizard of Id, and Doonesbury were usually the first things I read before starting the route. Believe me when I say that Doonesbury was having a field day with the Nixon White House, but it was just starting to hit it's stride when President Reagan came in.Ask me about my groin pull.
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02-09-19 07:47 AM #43
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02-11-19 05:09 AM #44
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1. Calvin and Hobbes
2. Peanuts
3. Pearls Before Swine
4. Far Side
The new 'Nancy' is good too.
Be seeing you,
SaxmaniaMayonnaise is a demanding master.
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02-11-19 07:01 AM #45
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1. Calvin & Hobbes
2. Far Side
3. Herman
4. PeanutsLet the kids play.
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02-11-19 07:18 AM #46
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