Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 23, 2010

Thus ends Jeff’s employment at Overkill.

$50 million! Talk about “overkill”

This is like déjà vu with Havoc and the Warlord.

Grrrrr!

OK, I withdraw my post from Friday – this is undoubtedly Jeff. Offer the Prez $50 mil for cooperation? Heck, Overkill could have done that much himself without the “Red Rascal.”

About a year ago, Jeff did fairly much the same thing, overbidding for services, in negotiating with a war lord. Instead of being beheaded by the war lord, as apparently Havoc was intending to happen, the offer probably saved Jeff.

The big problem here isn’t so much the $50 million - it’s that once word gets out about this offer (and it will) the other Afghanistan officials are going to want a commensurate increase in their inducements. If Trudeau’s past patterns prevail, it will probably be 2-3 weeks at least before we see a continuation of this storyline. It’s going to be interesting to see if Overkill is any more tolerant than Havoc regarding Jeff.

Really, you could just cut and paste last year’s dialouge in that last panel.

Overkill: “You WHAT?!:

Idiot: “Called an audible, boss! Got us a sweet new deal!”

and hereś the punchline: in 30 prorated annual installments, after SSSI withholding, MediCare, federal, and monetary transfer export excise/duty tax. hereś your buck ninety five. enjoy the wealth.

$50 million is nothing compared to what Bush spent over there………

does anyone have the dates for the earlier story line with Havoc and the warlord?

Whatever! made me laugh and will always do so you muppits! It’s not reality! lol

Overkill may think that the “offer [Karzai] couldn’t refuse” is an allusion by Jeff to The Godfathers (1972), or possibly to the video game (2005?) based on Corleone’s Mafia.

But what does that have to do with Karzai owning “horses”? Are the “horses” some kind of slang that means controlling the stakes in whatever Mafia game they’re playing?

In the first Godfather movie, a movie director was induced by the Godfather to do something. The Godfather had one of the director’s horses beheaded and the head placed in bed with him as he slept. Thus, he acceded to the “offer he couldn’t refuse.”

The testorone in here is so thick you could cut it with a pharmacutical commercial.

They’ll have to swipe some opium from Afghanistan to foot that bill.

Does Berzerkistan produce poorly-guarded opium?

Stay tuned for… “The Death of a Legend”

Same Red Rascal time… Same Red Rascal strip.

At least we know where the first million is going to come from

Well, sigh… flagged three more of the beasts.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROWL!!

Don’t go to any spam site, you might get a virus. (AND you’ll never get what you ordered) Sorry, folks, just trying to spam the spammers, I apologize that THIS is kinda spam too….

Jeff, You’re not working for the CIA anymore.

…And it looks like he won’t be working for Overkill anymore, either.

Doh! Did you pre-negotiate your “severance” package, Jeff?