When Berkeley Breathed posted the above Sunday strip on Facebook a week ago, he included the following text:
Happy Vintage Monday! On March 11, 1984, I opened the paper to read a wholly re-edited version of the strip I had submitted to the Washington Post syndicate some weeks before. Enclosed is the unfiddled version. —bb
The edited version is here: https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1984/3/11
More Bloom County Media lies! The Beacon is not the world’s cheapest newspaper. When I was in college in D.C. the News was delivered free, apparently in a desperate attempt to raise their sinking “circulation” numbers!
I don’t know whether Jebsen is a squat twat or not….
So we are winding up the offensensitivity reboot with that time Berkeley was annoyed because he used an offensive word to describe women’s anatomy as an insult about a man and got censored (probably because of the offensive nature of the word and not because of the way it was deployed)? I get the joke, I just think it’s pretty tone deaf to make that the hill where he makes his stand.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Well I can’t see why a minor little misspelling should be any cause for concern.
Strod almost 6 years ago
When Berkeley Breathed posted the above Sunday strip on Facebook a week ago, he included the following text:
Happy Vintage Monday! On March 11, 1984, I opened the paper to read a wholly re-edited version of the strip I had submitted to the Washington Post syndicate some weeks before. Enclosed is the unfiddled version. —bb
The edited version is here: https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1984/3/11
Chris Colvard almost 6 years ago
According to the dictionary, a twat is “A contemptible and stupid person, idiot.”
But, with that being the second definition….
awgiedawgie Premium Member almost 6 years ago
“So, Senator, if we misspelled your name everywhere, how’d you know the story was about you?”
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Cheaper than the Shepherd Express?
Flash5005 almost 6 years ago
Pretty sure the original said his name was spelled “Potatohead”, not “Squat Twat”.
Robert C. Premium Member almost 6 years ago
? Last panel; Desks are ‘flipped around’, mirror-image position of the previous panels…?
The Moose Group almost 6 years ago
I’m more surprised that Breathed actually thought a paper in 1984 would have printed “squat twat.”
Sisyphos almost 6 years ago
More Bloom County Media lies! The Beacon is not the world’s cheapest newspaper. When I was in college in D.C. the News was delivered free, apparently in a desperate attempt to raise their sinking “circulation” numbers!
I don’t know whether Jebsen is a squat twat or not….
Paige Shaw almost 6 years ago
So we are winding up the offensensitivity reboot with that time Berkeley was annoyed because he used an offensive word to describe women’s anatomy as an insult about a man and got censored (probably because of the offensive nature of the word and not because of the way it was deployed)? I get the joke, I just think it’s pretty tone deaf to make that the hill where he makes his stand.
lee85736 almost 6 years ago
Maybe he had a bet going about how many newspapers would edit it.