How could they tell when her heart stopped beating?

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

Haw haw (a la Nelson Mutz)

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.

How could they tell when her heart stopped beating?

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

Don’t get up again.

I don’t think she will!

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

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

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....

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.

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?

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

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.

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

Does Opus’ still have a crush on Diane Sawyer?

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

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.

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

1st response owns thread.

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

I did indeed!

OTM with Doonesbury.

Thanks Kingfish!

hey, lookee this: there’s an archive (of sorts) of “Classic Bloom Country”

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

I hope she has to blow Pinochet in hell.