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   pbarnrob said, 2 months ago

   Different Universes, between Zipper and Toggle; the language barrier is steep!

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   Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

   Toggle, show your intellectual superiority. Go to a real school.

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   Ravenswing said, 2 months ago

   Heck, it isn’t as if there aren’t a zillion colleges here in Boston … which puts you right next to MIT. Which, in your case, wouldn’t be a hardship.

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   Avolunteer said, 2 months ago

   Why have Zipper do tours; they know his record one would think they would want hi far from any prospective students!

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   boghos68 said, 2 months ago

   Because enrollment = tuition = income. They wouldn’t want to scare potential “students” off with challenges. Warm bodies with parental checks are all that matters.

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   Susan001 said, 2 months ago

   I was hoping that Garry would have interrupted this story line today for a 9/11 tribute.
   I was wrong.

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   jtpozenel said, 2 months ago

   Why bring it up Susan001? You were wrong. So?

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   Susan001 said, 2 months ago

   So? So I feel badly that a political comic strip did not acknowledge a tragic day in American history.

   I just hope ypu’re not suggesting we “forget about it”, or “get over it”, jtpozenel. Because we won’t!

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   Ushindi said, 2 months ago

   A nice reminder at “Birdbrains” today - just saying….

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    Nick V said, 2 months ago

    I rather like that Garry just continued with the story. Nobody complains when a strip doesn’t print out a July 4th message, and it would get rather annoying if every strip by somebody from the United States had something about the United/American Hijackings. Anyway - I love how Toggle thinks it’s his speech impediment instead of his vocabulary choice. Thinking the best of people is a great asset for him.

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    rvonluchen said, 2 months ago

    It’s not Toggle’s speech impediment or vocabulary. No one in his right mind would go to Walden College for education - at least not if any other school would take him.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

    In spite of what lots of people believe, millions of people in the USA were literally not directly affected by what happened on 9-11-01.

    If I had not watched TV on that day, what happened with the planes hijacked by terrorists would not have any affect on my life, just like the people who get murdered in New York City every day has no direct nor indirect connection with my own life.

    While I cannot prove it, if the World Trade Center (which had lots of international offices and non-Americans working in it) had not been in the USA were located elsewhere in the world, it could have still been attacked.

    The World Trade Center was a “Mecca” for the pseudo religion of capitalism according to the mindset of some foreigners. Some foreign people believe that Capitalism is one of the doctrines of the religion of Christianity.

    Alan Jackson claimed that God inspired him to write the song “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)?” But, the world did NOT stop turning and people who knew nothing about what happened in the Eastern USA on that date had their world turn as usual.

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    jtpozenel said, 2 months ago

    Susan001, I certainly don’t think that Gary Trudeau is obligated in any way to put his strip on hold today or any day. In my area there are all sorts of gatherings and church services to remember those who died. Do you really think that is the job of a comic strip? I’m sure that you must have something of the sort going on in your area. Why don’t you attend?

    I’ve seen only a few other comics that mention 911. And in those where there was no mention, some readers took it upon themselves to mention it without casting aspersions on the author of the strip.

    For God’s sake, it’s a cartoon.

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    Tigger said, 2 months ago

    Zip is a chip off of Zonk, both Dedicated Slackers

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    OldHipster said, 2 months ago

    Yeah, that’s what I was, a slacker…..

    A BIG TIME slacker.

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    Nick V said, 2 months ago

    rvon - I was actually referring to how the other guy isn’t able to understand him…

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    DirtyDragon said, 2 months ago

    Zipper has a fine career waiting for him at National Review Online, if he wants it.