Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 13, 2008
Transcript:
Professor: What kept Davenport from being transformative was her independence... impervious to the demands of her party's leadership, she brought dogged common sense to most issues, aided by a non-ideological staff... led by her capable chief, Joan Caucus. Alex: Get OUT Of here! Professor: Excuse me, Alex? Joanie: Hello? Alex: Grammy! I'm studying you! Right now!
mfboyd over 15 years ago
“will I be on the final?”
Radical-Knight over 15 years ago
And this capable chief of staff is now a motorcycle mama for a Hell’s Angle…
EDIT: ANGEL… oops, eh-heh
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
no, no, no… that’s MIKE’s mother. Joanie is JJ’s mom, Rick Redfern’s wife and a D.C. attorney.
windpuff over 15 years ago
Who is Alex’ dad? I was thinking it was Mike…?
margueritem over 15 years ago
Lynn Cummings says:
Who is Alex’ dad? I was thinking it was Mike…?
It is. He and JJ were married, until she dumped him. The Grammy she’s talking to is JJ’s mom.
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Lynn - Mike is Alex’s dad, and JJ is her mom. JJ and Mike split up several years back.
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Susan, you’re probably right, but there’s an old Chinese aphorism… “A man who is thirty and has achieved nothing is still young and may amount to something in the end. A man who is forty and has achieved nothing is no longer young, but may still be successful. A man who is fifty and has achieved nothing may be disregarded without consequence.”
JJ and Jeff still have time to turn around (and, after all, JJ is a successful artist, even if her taste in men really bites). Even if they don’t, it’s not necessarily their parents’ fault, is it?
windpuff over 15 years ago
Thanks – I’ve been following this since the ‘70’s, and sometimes it makes my head spin!
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Zeke Brenner = “Uncle Stupidhead”. I still laugh at that one.
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Susan001 - That’s right, I remembered that Joanie spent some time as a single mom but I’d forgotten that she didn’t have custody of JJ after a divorce and while she was in law school.
Khard12 over 15 years ago
Radical-Knight says: And this capable chief of staff is now a motorcycle mama for a Hell’s Angle
Are they Hell’s acute, obtuse, or right Angles? I can never remember.
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
given that they’re still mostly doing drugs and riding the freeways without helmets, I’d say they’re pretty obtuse.
briankblough over 15 years ago
You people are treating this strip like “As the World Turns”!! Just have some fun with it! It’s a comic, after all!!
margueritem over 15 years ago
You people are treating this strip like “As the World Turns”!! Just have some fun with it! It’s a comic, after all!!
Oh, go play in the microwave.
briankblough over 15 years ago
margueritem- I just did as you suggested. found a burned-up, dried-up old uselsess piece of meat in the corner—must have been you!
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
OOOOOOH, you shouldn’ta hadn’ta oughtn’ta said that!
translation: “Oh, no he DIN’T”
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
We are having fun with it… it’s fun to try to piece together the DB storyline for the last 20 years or so, see how much each of us remembers, and relive the good parts.
tukla_ratte over 15 years ago
::facepaws::
Good one, Alex.
DEdwardMartin over 15 years ago
As long as we’re on the topic of Donnesbury geneology–
Joanie had two kids by her first husband. We did not see them at the time, only heard their voices through the motel room door as her first hubby played a tape recording of them crying . Anyway, anyone remember the name of JJ’s sister (Alex’s aunt)?
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Sarah Whateley?
margueritem over 15 years ago
‘twas not me. ;-)
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
W/b margueritem.
nickdangerfield over 15 years ago
RE: DB storyline. What about DB and Phred in the jungles of ‘Nam. Ahh, the good old days.
margueritem over 15 years ago
Roger, but not THAT one, the other one. says:
W/b margueritem.
Why thank you, sir! I would never do anything so foolish as to crawl into a microwave. ;-) It’s been fun talking about the Doonesbury family tree.
margueritem over 15 years ago
Roger, but not THAT one, the other one. says:
Sarah Whateley?
Say, weren’t the Whateleys involved in several of Lovecraft’s stories?
YatInExile about 13 years ago
“What class is this dear? U.S. history?”