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1. 

   mfboyd said, about 1 year ago

   “will I be on the final?”

2. 

   Radical-Knight said, about 1 year ago

   And this capable chief of staff is now a motorcycle mama for a Hell’s Angle…

   EDIT: ANGEL… oops, eh-heh

3. 

   Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

   no, no, no… that’s MIKE’s mother. Joanie is JJ’s mom, Rick Redfern’s wife and a D.C. attorney.

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   Susan001 said, about 1 year ago

   And Jeff’s mom, too.
   Successful as she was in law and politics, seems that Joanie didn’t do such a great job with her kids.
   J.J. dumped her husband and daughter to shack up with that worthless loser, Zeke Brenner, and Jeff…well, don’t ask!

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   Lynn Cummings said, about 1 year ago

   Who is Alex’ dad? I was thinking it was Mike…?

6. 

   Margueritem said, about 1 year 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.

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   Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

   Lynn - Mike is Alex’s dad, and JJ is her mom. JJ and Mike split up several years back.

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   Orgelspieler said, about 1 year 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?

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   Lynn Cummings said, about 1 year ago

   Thanks – I’ve been following this since the ‘70’s, and sometimes it makes my head spin!

10. 

    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

    Zeke Brenner = “Uncle Stupidhead”. I still laugh at that one.

11. 

    Susan001 said, about 1 year ago

    Not always, Roger, but in this case, you must remember that Joanie herself gave up custody of J.J. when she divorced her first husband; they didn’t reunite until J.J. was grown. Joanie was (and still is) a staunch feminist, and J.J. was quite a handful as a child–actually, she was a brat. Back then, for a woman, it was either career or domesticity; Joanie chose the former.
    And for those who don’t know: Jeff is Joanie’s offspring with her second husband, Rick.

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    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year 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.

13. 

    Khard12 said, about 1 year 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.

14. 

    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

    given that they’re still mostly doing drugs and riding the freeways without helmets, I’d say they’re pretty obtuse.

15. 

    #1 redskins fan said, about 1 year ago

    You people are treating this strip like “As the World Turns”!! Just have some fun with it! It’s a comic, after all!!

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    Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

    1 redskins fan says:

    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.

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    #1 redskins fan said, about 1 year 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!

18. 

    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

    OOOOOOH, you shouldn’ta hadn’ta oughtn’ta said that!

    translation: “Oh, no he DIN’T”

19. 

    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year 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.

20. 

    Tukla Ratte said, about 1 year ago

    ::facepaws::

    Good one, Alex.

21. 

    David Martin said, about 1 year 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)?

22. 

    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

    Sarah Whateley?

23. 

    Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

    ‘twas not me. ;-)

24. 

    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

    W/b margueritem.

25. 

    nickdangerfield said, about 1 year ago

    RE: DB storyline. What about DB and Phred in the jungles of ‘Nam. Ahh, the good old days.

26. 

    Margueritem said, about 1 year 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.

27. 

    Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

    Roger, but not THAT one, the other one. says:

    Sarah Whateley?

    Say, weren’t the Whateleys involved in several of Lovecraft’s stories?