BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry

Subject: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: GUEST,Mrrzy, sans cookie or time
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:25 PM

They are in Don't Ever Change, Boopsie which is exerpted from The President Is A Lot Smarter Than You Think... you gotta reread these!

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: DougR
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:38 PM

Mrzzy: your "you gotta reread these" is ample reason for me not to. I seriously doubt that I would find them funny.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 06:09 PM

you have a url?

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:14 AM

No, I read the books - and DougR, why not? I'm pro-Kerry and I still find them funny, even though they are making fun of him (I hadn't realized he was big enough for Trudeau to make fun of him back then!)?

I will seek URLs, though. Better to see in context than just have me quote them here, although I've been doing so with great success...

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:17 AM

here you are...

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Amos
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 09:27 AM

THose are funny. What I find less humorous is the bitter hard-bitten nastiness of the right-wing comments appended to them.

A

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 11:20 AM

Didn't read those, of course!

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 11:50 AM

Funny!

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 11:57 AM

I have the book. Heck, I have a copy of the book of the ORIGINAL cartoons by Trudeau, the ones that appeared in the Yale paper.

My response is, "So?" Mark Slackmeyer was known back then as "Megaphone Mark", BD was BD, Boopsie was Boopsie, etc. A bit more of an innocent era, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 01:01 AM

The Daily Princetonian used to run "Doonesbury" during my freshman year (1970-71). I remember that the star on B.D.'s helmet was originally a "Y."

I was interested in the comment that quoted General Giap as saying in his book that John Kerry helped the Vietcong and North Vietnamese win the war. Right below that was a comment from someone who actually owned a copy of the book...and that quote was nowhere to be found. The origin of the spurious quote, according to that person, was Oliver North. Hitler was right...if you tell a big enough lie, people will believe it. (And I do not vouch for the authenticity of that quote!)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 05:43 AM

Anyone who believed that a quote from General Giap saying "We came close to surrendering several times" could possibly be geuine has a screw loose anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: ard mhacha
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 07:31 AM

Two very funny comments in the Daily Mail [UK] on Bush and Kerry`s debates, one reader remarked that" Bush looked like a cow watching a train go by", and Kerry "had the forlorn facial expression of a dog dreading a bath".

Subject: RE: BS: 1971 Doonesburies about John Kerry
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 02:02 PM

I'd say Kerry just about comes out ahead on that.