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   Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

   More mystery…

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   Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

   Sydney Phillips, yes, it was! I’m guessing that the poem may have been based on the orphan trains that brought orphaned children out west to be taken in by families.

   Ray C, no, the naughty little girl is my beloved niece, Rhoda. She let me borrow him for a while.

   JanCinVV, I always loved this poem, too. I liked the
   Gobble-uns getting the naughty kids!

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   Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

   Sydney Phillips, I think Liam must have ‘spanked’ mph, for he certainly changed his threatening tone…

4. 

   ARF2 said, about 1 month ago

   Never built? Your Blue Circle dollars at work? Or something completely different?

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   Fred_Basset_fan said, about 1 month ago

   The files saying it WAS built (along with the accountants who were investigating the missing trillions from the Pentagon budget) were probably contained in the section of the Pentagon that was reinforced and then destroyed by who knows what on 9/11.

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   Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

   As “pschearer” remarked yesterday - a great job of building suspense. Warbucks and Grimm were last seen at the underground site 2 weeks ago, then we were taken off on two related themes, and we waited. It was all achieved in elegant style

   So different over at Dick Tracy where suspense irritatingly takes the form of repetition or extreme delay in getting to the point.

   Those who have read Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels would have recieved an excellent lesson on how it could be interestingly achieved. He’d have two connected stories going at the same time. At the end of Chapter 1 you had to wait for Chapter 3 to find out what happened to the cliff hanger in one.Same thing over in 2. Another tense situation, not resolved or returned to and until we were into Chapter 4.

   And so he’d alternate this focus throughout the book, chapter after chapter. Occasionaly bringing the two stories together, only to seperate them again and repeat the ongoing suspense process until conclusion at story end.

   It was a writing style that helped to keep readers glued to the book.

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   Ray C said, about 1 month ago

   Sydney, that’s how Tolkien did the Lord of the RIngs, also. I can remember being so annoyed when the chapter ended and he picked up another thread, but then getting deeply into the progress of that thread until he ended that chapter to yet more annoyance. But it was a “good” annoyance. Suspense. Like the old movie serials.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

   Why am I flamed for posting tangential material related to the comics at GoComics, while others ramble on and on about completely-off topic subjects.

   Back to the strip, apparently the CIA took charge of building the underground bunker and that’s why the Pentagon’s file shows it was never built.

   During the George W. Bush White House Administration, I got a strong impression that Dick Cheney’s underground bunker was outside of Washington, DC.

   But, earlier this year, it was revealed that his bunker was reached by an underground tunnel under the White House.

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   Sydney Phillips said, about 1 month ago

   Three cheers for WISE “security” thinking, if that’s what emerges in the Annie strip

   Now the President of a different persuasion can USE it in an emergency, IF… his - “Peace in our time”, White Flag, TALK strategies fail !

   It’s like the game of Bridge, every time you win a trick that way, the other guy who only respects the STRENGTH in your HAND, will likely USE his “trumps” and win three !

   I’m NOT sure the other side wants peace, although they may want a big piece of Annie’s America !

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    mrprongs said, about 1 month ago

    What if they put up a fake vent and hatch, and absconded with the cash? One lowly worker not included left a hidden clue that ti was never built.