Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 19, 2016
July 18, 2016
July 20, 2016
Transcript:
Duke: Honey? Is that you? Honey: Yes, sir. The plea bargaining didn't go well. I've come to get you out. Duke: About time! Honey: But first I want your word that you'll never, ever use drugs again. Promise? Duke: Uh... depends. What kind of sentence were they talking? Honey: I got it reduced to death by hanging. Duke: "Reduced?"
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
I guess, death is more merciful than a life sentence in a Haitian prison.
Kali39 almost 8 years ago
Sounds familiar: .Harry Mudd: [explaining his latest trouble] I, uh… sold the Denebians all the rights to a Vulcan fuel synthesizer.
Capt. Kirk: And the Denebians contacted the Vulcans.
Mudd: How’d you know?
Kirk: That’s what I would have done.
Mudd: Hmp. Typical police mentality! They’ve got no sense of humour; they arrested me!
McCoy: Oh, I find that shocking.
Mudd: Worse than that! Do you know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb 5?
Spock: The guilty party has his choice. Death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging…
Mudd: The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was… d-d-d-DEATH. Barbarians! Well, of course I… left.
Kirk: [to the others] He broke jail.
Mudd: I, ah, borrowed transportation…
Kirk: He stole a spaceship.
Mudd: …the patrol reacted in a hostile manner…
Kirk: They fired at him!
Mudd: They’ve got no respect for private property – they damaged the bloody spaceship!
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault almost 8 years ago
Quite a negotiator.
comic4matt almost 8 years ago
Was he supposed to get ‘’death by quartering’’ or ‘’the ratbox’’?
Adiraiju almost 8 years ago
It’s a reference to the Star Trek episode “I, Mudd”, with scofflaw Harry Mudd explaining what he was up to since the last time he tangled with Kirk.
rpmurray almost 8 years ago
They were originally going to send him to the Democratic National Convention but decided that that would be too cruel and inhumane.
rlcooke almost 8 years ago
Ford Prefect: If we’re lucky [the Vogon captain] will throw us out into space [without any space suits].
Arthur Dent: And if we’re unlucky?
Ford Prefect: He’ll read us some of his poetry first.
Kip W almost 8 years ago
We call it ‘conversation’ here.
ghretighoti almost 8 years ago
America will start to be great.again when the band strikes up “Hail to the Drumpf”
caligula almost 8 years ago
The Duvalier family was supported in part by the US because they were pure death on drug dealers. Later on the CIA came to realize it was eliminating the competition more than any moral high ground on their part, or the CIA’s.
Ole Duke COULD have enjoyed the embrace of a Columbian necktie, which is what Honey means by “reduced”.
Linguist almost 8 years ago
Think of it Duke, as being tarred and feathered – without the feathers !
gammaguy almost 8 years ago
Reduced from illustrated and domiciled.
benbrilling almost 8 years ago
Hang him! I can’t stand the guy.
Kip W almost 8 years ago
“Oh, you’ll probably get off with crucifixion…”