Jeane Kirkpatrick dead!

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Jeane Kirkpatrick passes away, Bill the Cat said to be heartbroken.

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

How could they tell when her heart stopped beating?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit, beaten to a Bill the Cat joke in the very first post.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Haw haw (a la Nelson Mutz)

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Bloom County was my introduction to many Reagan-era politicos without having any idea who they were. Ed Meese? Jeane Kirkpatrick? Casper Weinberger? Nothing but odd punchlines I wouldn't get for a decade.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

How could they tell when her heart stopped beating?

Probably because the deeper they got, the sweeter the pain.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't get up again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think she will!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

(Because, you see, finally it was enough.)

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't Jeane send Bill dead flowers upon learning that he was dating Cornelia Guest?

I wish I had a copy of Binkley's "Meese Schmeese" T-shirt....

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 December 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

OTMFM! Except I'm foreign so I still don't know who Ed Meese is :) I'll check Wikipedia. To derail a little, what were the new Bloom County's like? Ned? Kingfish?

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 8 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you mean Outland? It had a few good bits.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was in 8th grade, my middle-school Scholastic Bowl team took on this private prep school called Avery Coonley. They fielded only 6th graders for some reason, and we easily outmatched them, probably because we had a couple more years of math/science on them. But even in some of their wrong answers it was clear they were freakishly smart: I remember this one kid named Graham shouting out "Ed Meese!" to some unrelated question about politics.

Several years later, he started Kleenex Girl Wonder.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

the newest Bloom County strip is Opus, which you can finally read online.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Does Opus' still have a crush on Diane Sawyer?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Not to my knowlege, but i've barely read the strip since it came out. i'm waiting for the books.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 8 December 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Cosign. Old Doonesbury collections played a similar role for 60s/70s politics.

― 31g (31g), Saturday, 9 December 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

1st response owns thread.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 9 December 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you mean Outland? It had a few good bits.

I did indeed!

OTM with Doonesbury.

Thanks Kingfish!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, lookee this: there's an archive (of sorts) of "Classic Bloom Country"

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20061206/lblm061206.gif

Some of the other strips I don't even remember from the books.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope she has to blow Pinochet in hell.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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