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   CoolGuy2000 said, 4 months ago

   har

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   Margueritem said, 4 months ago

   Do not listen to your mother, Alex.

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   CaptXpendable said, 4 months ago

   I agree with GEE1A, comparing Toggle to Zeke is ridiculous. Toggle may be have been dealt an enormous set back and is in a tough situation, but he’s persevered and tries to better himself. Proving he has more character than Zeke ever will.

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   myhaircut said, 4 months ago

   Did I miss something? I thought Toggle was wounded by an IED. How is that related to his obsession with music?

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   prasrinivara said, 4 months ago

   myhaircut, I think gmartin997 is claiming that Toggle may have been listening to music when the IED blew up.

   On the nail Marg–comparing Zeke with Toggle is like comparing Al Sharpton with Billy Sunday!

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 4 months ago

   The Tulsa (Oklahoma) World moved this comic strip to the Opinion Section of its paper quite a few years ago.

   Yes, if Toggle had not been obsessed with music and had been using earphones, he might not have hit that IED on the road in Iraq.

   I am a US Army Veteran who spent a tour of duty in South Vietnam. In real life, it breaks my heart to see the 19 and 20 year old “boys” at the local VA Out Patient and Behavioral Health Clinics here in Tulsa. Some of them look perfectly healthy and in most cases, those in this grouping are suffering from war-zone related PTSD just like BD endures.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 4 months ago

   Billy Sunday was a racist! He was nothing like Al Sharpton.

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   okeedoekee said, 4 months ago

   Yah, my newspaper moved DB to the editorial page also some time ago and now it isn’t there at all. Only in the Sunday funnies.
   It does look like Toggle and Zeke are not to be compared, but contrasted.

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   Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

   Doonesbury was on the editorial page of the Rocky Mountain News when I first read it.
   Moved to the regular comics section many years ago.
   There are people who want the local paper to move it to the Ed page.
   I don’t get it.
   Comics have grown up a lot over the last several decades.
   There are so many comics with political and social themes now that DB barely stands out anymore.

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    Kerovan said, 4 months ago

    Joe Allen Doty said, 40 minutes ago

    Billy Sunday was a racist! He was nothing like Al Sharpton.

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    And CaptXpendable’s point was that Zeke and Toggle are nothing alike as well.

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    TheWildSow said, 4 months ago

    Oh, Alex…..don’t listen to her!

    Well, why would she? Alex doesn’t have much respect for JJ – since JJ is hardly worthy of respect.

    My point the other day, re: Why JJ stays with Uncle Stupidhead – JJ paid a pretty steep price when she left boring ol’ Mike to “follow her heart.” Now, on some level she has to realize Zeke is a jerk (and I’m only calling him such a mild term to keep this clean!) But admitting that, even to herself, would be an impossible blow to her pride. So she has to defend her decision beyond all reason.

    Meanwhile, boring ol’ Mike has a new, happier marriage, a good life, and the affection and respect of their daughter. I’d say he got the much better part of that bargain.

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    ironflange said, 4 months ago

    Too bad for J. J. that Duke didn’t have a little better aim all those years ago.

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    dstufff said, 4 months ago

    So, maybe Toggle wasn’t so bright when he had his music cranked and ran into an IED, but now he seems like an honest young guy who is pursuing his dream despite his setback.

    Uncle Stupidhead, on the other hand, is just a plain jerk (just like my sister’s first husband).

    It should be Alex telling JJ to dump Uncle Stupidhead.

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    MamaTaney said, 4 months ago

    Alex needs to be talking to Dad, NOT MOM, for advice!!!! If she listens to JJ it will be truly pitiful

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    okeedoekee said, 4 months ago

    Remember Pogo? I loved that strip as a kid. Then in the 80’s they made a movie. The politition running for election answered every question, “jest fine.”
    If gocomics has Berke Breathed reruns how about Pogo reruns too?

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    bashar327 said, 4 months ago

    Misery loves company. JJ is what my wife calls an energy vampire.

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    Chikuku said, 4 months ago

    JJ, listen to your own advice and dump that worthless Zeke!

    Alex, stay with Toggle. You and he are meant to be together.

18. 

    jaiel said, 4 months ago

    I agree Toggle is nothing like Uncle Stupidhead. Toggle has a job!

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    tcambeul said, 4 months ago

    JA Doty, and al sharpton is not a racist???? Give me a break!!!

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    DirtyDragon said, 4 months ago

    Pardon me for asking, but what part of running over an IED (or not) depends on someone driving a truck *hearing it???

    Unless you want to argue that listening to that demon rock & roll music brought God’s hand down on Toggle, and He made him hit the bomb in the road??

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    IanSaunders said, 4 months ago

    Speaking of Uncle Stupidhead, was yesterday’s strip the first time we’ve heard Alex’s new nickname for him: “Uncle Chucklebutt”?

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    4deerinmyyard said, 4 months ago

    Stay out of it, JJ. You forfeited your mom credentials ages ago.

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    Alabama_Al said, 4 months ago

    Yeah, “Doonesbury” is also on the Editorial page of my local paper. On the bottom left corner, to be exact. And what’s on the bottom right corner, you may ask? “Mallard Fillmore”, of course; about as funny as the Letters to the Editor, which appear on the same page, written by my community’s right-wing nuts. Almost every issue, Garry Trudeau shows a level of wit and subtlety in “Doonesbury” that Bruce Tinsley, the writer and illustrator of “Mallard Fillmore”, is totally incapable of achieving.

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    Greatdane said, 4 months ago

    In my newspaper “Doonesbury” appears in the classified section with all of the junk listings. A move to the editorilal page would be a big step upward.

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    Yuseff said, 4 months ago

    Toggle had his music cranked. He didnt hear the warning coming over the radio warning about the IED. Had he not had his IPOD wired through the trucks raido system he would have had some warning.