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   barticle35 said, 4 months ago

   Polite families don’t discuss the hippo in the living room.

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   baslim_the_begger said, 4 months ago

   Zeke and another woman? You’ve got to be kidding! She’s got to be even more of a head case than JJ.

   Way to stir things up Alex!

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   farren said, 4 months ago

   She was married to Mike when she started mucking about with Zeke.

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   baslim_the_begger said, 4 months ago

   gmartin: it looks more like Insert knife, twist

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   Bill Weinberg said, 4 months ago

   This is pretty bleeep cruel on JJ. Oh well, she’s Garrry’s creation, he can torture her if he wants…

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   Samskara said, 4 months ago

   For a while, I actually hoped Mike and JJ would get back together (that was before he remarried of course) – but this story line seems worth the wait.

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   diggitt said, 4 months ago

   JJ came in cruel and she’s always been cruel and clueless. When we first met her, it was as Joanie’s daughter – and of course, Joanie walked out of her first marriage. Mike and BJ went by on their shared motorcycle and Joanie the bored housewife jumped onboard. Like mother like daughter indeed!

   JJ was Zeke’s girlfriend then for some weird reason she married Mike. After some years, she took off with Zeke again, leaving Alex with her dad There’s the adultery and the like mother like daughter thing again.

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   edcoyote said, 4 months ago

   I take Alex’s comment as being rather matter-of-fact. Everyone knows you committed adultery, Mom, why are you acting surprised? I’ve seen that same kind of “matter-of-factedness” in my nieces reacting to other family incidents.

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   JonD17 said, 4 months ago

   difference in Alex’ case is she got a guy with integrity

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    BigDog00 said, 4 months ago

    Tact, not a technique known to most young folk.

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    okeedoekee said, 4 months ago

    Matter-of-fact does catch some of us off guard. Especially when the topic is our dirt from the past.
    And it is not neccisarily judgemental. Alex isn’t judging JJ as much as JJ might have already judged herself for her sins. There is an element of numbness about right and wrong as a matter-of-fact.

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    Chikuku said, 4 months ago

    Zeke said that their story was like that of Elvira Madigan. “Mozart did the music.” Not quite correct, but still the smartest thing Zeke has ever said.

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    ChukLitl said, 4 months ago

    Re:diggitt
    It’s BD not BJ, but it wasn’t him in that storyline. It was Mark’s motorcycle with Mike in the sidecar.

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    countoftowergrove said, 4 months ago

    baslimthebegger said, about 16 hours ago

    Zeke and another woman? You’ve got to be kidding! She’s got to be even more of a head case than JJ.

    Way to stir things up Alex!

    ---

    No, JJ stepped out on Mike twenty-five years ago.

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    Kerovan said, 4 months ago

    Something occurred to me, way after the fact, about yeaterdays discussion. Is Toggle like Zeke? Well think about this.

    Zeke, Zonker, Zipper, Toggle
    one of these things is not like the others….

    Toggle just doesn’t fit the pattern, for all the reasons everyone gave, but I couldn’t help it when i noticed a pattern. Grin

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    tcambeul said, 4 months ago

    jj is a slut, zeke is a leech/loser, Toggle is trying to find a life. No comparison!!!

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    RinaFarina said, 4 months ago

    sigh…

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    Kerovan said, 4 months ago

    I was trying to point out that all three of the characters we can euphemistically call “Work Phobic,” the ones who will never amount to anything in Doonesbury, have names beginning with Z. Granted they are different characters but all three have the same work ethic. All three of them will never amount to anything. (grumbles, a joke’s not funny if you have to explain it.)

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    lindz.coop said, 4 months ago

    I’m with the matter-of-fact crowd – mom is a loser, Zeke is beyond loser & grandma dumped the whole family too (tho she may have had good reason).