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16th April 08, 10:40 AM
#1
Bloom County
One of the sites I visit daily has the old "Bloom County" comic strip. The strip posted today had Berke Breathed's impression of Prince Charles in a kilt (this is humor, folks - not to be taken seriously):
Originally posted January 5, 198x.
I am easily moved for sympathy for dogs, far more so than for humans, because dogs do not understand. There is no way to explain that you will return, that the vet will make it all better, that they cannot go shooting today because that is not what today is about. They cannot work out that their misery is finite and will some time end, and so their misery is magnified.
Gerald Hammond
Mad Dogs and Scotsmen
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16th April 08, 11:01 AM
#2
Love the old bloom county comic strips. Use to have all the books and even a collection of the stuffed penguins. My wife and I even named our dog Opus.
"Do not demand what you can not take."
"Sonoran Scotsmen California Chapter"
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16th April 08, 11:04 AM
#3
Cute strip  but it does bring a tinge of sadness, knowing what lay ahead.
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16th April 08, 11:15 AM
#4
- your friendly local Poor, Starving Theology Student
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkein
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.” — Søren Kierkegaard
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16th April 08, 12:32 PM
#5
For many years Bloom County was an eagerly awaited stop in my morning paper. Who can forget when Steve Dallas broke his back? (and the hiatus when Berkeley broke his)
"A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." anon
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16th April 08, 12:46 PM
#6
I miss Bloom County. The new strip just isn't the same.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.
~Samuel Johnson
People don't like to be meddled with.
~River Tam
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16th April 08, 12:50 PM
#7
HRH has always struck me as a decent bloke - I've met people who knew him in the Navy. Whereas I was never a fan of St Diana Queen of Hearts etc. I haven't seen this cartoonists work before but he obviously picked up on something.
The 'Eathen in his idleness bows down to wood and stone,
'E don't obey no orders unless they is his own,
He keeps his side arms awful,
And he leaves them all about,
Until up comes the Regiment and kicks the 'Eathen out.
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16th April 08, 01:06 PM
#8
Oh my gosh, I grew up reading the Bloom County comics... I like Bill the cat, and I had a little Opus doll.
Guess that's not exactly the subject though.
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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16th April 08, 01:34 PM
#9
I miss Bloom County. 
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16th April 08, 02:03 PM
#10
Thanks for posting that one Gary, I too was a big fan of Bloom County and do miss it.
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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