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   Ira Nayman said, 2 months ago

   Covert oops.

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   Margueritem said, 2 months ago

   LMAO!

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   Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

   Lt. Fuzz reporting to Gen. Halftrack.

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   yyyguy said, 2 months ago

   why does this strip remind me of colonel flagg on mash?

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   baslim_the_begger said, 2 months ago

   She really enjoyed saying that! Good for her!

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   baslim_the_begger said, 2 months ago

   Continued from yesterday:

   Chucklitl: It is unlikely that Lazarus Long could be either Rhysling, the blind singer of the spaceways or Col. Baslim. Rhysling died from radiation poisoning, and Baslim of a suicide capsule. The latter’s head was displayed on a pike. Rhyslings’ body was radioactive.

   The helicopter pilot is another story…

   There is some interesting information in the Wikipedia entry for “The Green Hills of Earth”, including the fact that Heinlein based Rhysling on a real person.

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   milano99 said, 2 months ago

   With that face, they should call him “Jeff RedFuzz”.

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   Susan001 said, 2 months ago

   Reminds me more of Frank Burns than Col. Flagg.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

   I thought of Col. Flagg of the “MAS*H” when read this in the paper.

   Col. Flagg was always claiming he was someone else. He couldn”t even find a disguise to fool the regular characters on the show.

   Back in the 1970s, I saw Larry Linville (Frank Burns) as a guest celebrity contestant on the “Pyramid” quiz show. It was interesting that the regular contestant was Larry Sharp who had attended the same church I did in Tulsa.

   The Frank Burns character didn’t seem to be too intelligent and neither did Larry Linville on the quiz show. But, Larry Sharp was sharp intelligence wise.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

    Jeff can’t be too incognito since most US Military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan know exactly whom he is and for whom he works.

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    namenamename said, 2 months ago

    I see Jeff’s been “matured” in appearance, but it just makes him look like Doonesbury with a bad haircut and shades.

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    Potrzebie said, 2 months ago

    baslim: RAH based a lot of his characters on real people. SGT Zim was based on a marine he met in Panama. His wife no doubt was Maureen Johnson (?) I wonder whom Nehemiah Scudder (the 1st prophet) was based on?

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    Ushindi said, 2 months ago

    It’s good to see that RAH still has dedicated fans -
    I’m still waiting for Podkayne……

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    yyyguy said, 2 months ago

    you can count me on the list of RAH fans. between Heinlein and Asimov, my love for science fiction (like Spider Robinson, I don’t like SciFi as a term) was born, and still lives on today.

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    baslim_the_begger said, 2 months ago

    Ushindi and other Heinlein fans. If you haven’t read John Varley, you should. His book “Red Thunder” is “Rocket Ship Galileo” done right (no nazis, and an interesting propulsion system). Red Thunder is a bit of “The Moon is the Harsh Mistress”, but set on Mars (mostly), “Rolling Thunder” IS Podkayne (yes, the protagonist is a girl from Mars named Podkayne, and she has a brother named Clark), but grown up and a bit different. These are homage to Heinlein, not ripoffs and good stories even if you haven’t read Heinlein

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    wsfn said, 2 months ago

    RAH rocks. There is no substitute. Death is too good for the evil makers of Starship Trooper movies. Will have to try out John Varley, sounds promising.

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    ChukLitl said, 2 months ago

    Baslim, Long was an old hand at faking his own death.

    Most authors base characters on real people. Trudeau’s best known example is Zonker’s Uncle Duke.

    yyyguy, I prefer the older term scientifiction, but it’s too long for pop culture, & makes little sense ‘til you figure out the accent is on tif not fic.

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    Setebos said, 2 months ago

    Another Heinlein fan here. Just recently finished re-reading both Job: A Comedy Of Justice and Grumbles From The Grave.

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    BlueRaven said, 2 months ago

    Long had to fake his own death. Couldn’t figure out how it’d happen for real without more effort than faking would involve.

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    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    BlueRaven said

    Long had to fake his own death. Couldn’t figure out how it’d happen for real without more effort than faking would involve.

    Sounds like Zinda Blake (Lady Blackhawk) {http://www.catskillcomics.com/Abrams/LadyBlackhawk.jpg} in the DC comics universe; she flew with the Blackhawks in WW2, but due to a time anamoly of some sort she’s here in the twenty-first century alive, well and still possessed of a fine pair of legs. (And very very rich - as the last surviving Blackhawk, she inherited the airline they created after the war).

    She and Black Canary went bar-hopping one night, and when Zinda pulled out a (very good-quality) fake ID that said she was twenty-seven, Dina asked why she used a fake instead of her real ID.

    And she answered that nobody questioned her when she showed ID that said she was twenty-seven … but if she whipped out a driver’s license that said she was almost ninety, nobody owuld believe it…

    At on

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    ironflange said, 2 months ago

    I feel kind of sorry for Jeff. He sure isn’t anywhere near as big a cog as he thinks he is.

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    Potrzebie said, 2 months ago

    Did anyone read RAH’s book published in the 80’s? Expanded Universe? Great semi-biographical book. It sure explained a lot. For example he hated some of the pulp he was forced to churn out. I feel sad that he never reprised his Prophet series. Only two stories and some passing references.

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    RinaFarina said, 2 months ago

    @yyyguy, apparently the in phrase is “speculative fiction”, to cover both science fiction and fantasy. The argument seems to be that the word “speculative” is more accurate. For example, Ursula K. Le Guin writes generally of other societies than ours, and doesn’t focus on technology.

    I used to tell myself I liked Heinlein, just was a bit uncomfortable with some of his ideas about women. This was just at the beginning of the sixties, when women who were unhappy about their status in society were isolated from each other, and hadn’t had a chance to talk to each other about this, and develop their ideas. Then one day a friend told me she thought he was just plain sexist, and gave me a long explanatory lecture. Since then I don’t have much use for him.

    Oh the days of “Help Wanted - Male” and “Help Wanted - Female” in the classified ads, when I learned that the kind of job I was looking for was only going to be found in the first category, and I had better practise my excuses for applying at all! No, I don’t miss those days in the least!!