Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 12, 2022

Don’t tell your grandkids about the 70’s except for Led Zeppelin and Bruce Springsteen.

Just like when they say, “If you remember Woodstock, you weren’t there”.

He was so stoned that he doesn’t remember.

He was stoned and he missed it, as Dr Hook so aptly put it.

Zonker did have a history of being baked…

“If you can remember the ‘60 you weren’t there”*, works for the ’70s too.*Wavy Gravy

I wonder why Mike and Kim never had children. Did Mike have a vasectomy??

The 60s were even more into recreational drugs.

Heck even Walt Disney dropped acid.

In Zonk’s defense, I had to think about it too…

There has NEVER been an era – in any country’s history when drugs and alcohol did not prevail. Republican beliefs to the contrary.

“Eli, you haven’t lived until you’ve listened to Dark Side of the Moon stoned through headphones.”

I joined the Marines in the 70’s. I did have as much fun as people seem to think.

I’ve often said, I know more about the 70s from Doonesbury than I do from having actually lived through them (as a kid).

I grew up in the 60’s and my kid and my nephews know more about it than I do.

I tell mine that soldiers of the United States of America shot and killed college students on American campuses (campi?). They don’t believe until after they Google it. ….sigh….

“And did you go to Woodstock?”

“Well, I don’t remember doing so, so I must have.”

So that’s why his nose is so long! ッ

Well, the drugs at least paused his aging, Zonker hasn’t aged a day since then!

If you can remember the 60s and 70s, then you didn’t have a good time. I admit to having some hazy recollections about some of those years…

Baked is just the right word.

who the heck is Eli? Did Mike’s daughter go trans?

I didn’t take drugs I paid for them like everyone else.

Zonk was big pharma’s original guinea pig

Reality is a crutch for those who can’t deal with the pleasure of drugs.

For every one who went to concerts, took drugs and pretended they were going to change the future, there were hundreds of us who had to get up early to go to work and get on with our lives. The media has greatly exaggerated the Zeitgeist of the 70s.

Now the 60s, on the other hand, … wow, good times!

If you can remember the 60’s you weren’t there. If you can remember the 70’s, you missed the whole point.

Anyone notice that Zonker never ages?

Not one mention of wading through mounds of Cocaine in the early 80’s, no one?

Mike daughter JJ grew up to have three kids.

Confusion understandable,as the kids only appear during Leap Years.

I loved the waterbeds!