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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 04:25 PM
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Bloom County. Still relevant today...
From "Classics of Western Literature" (The Reagan Years).
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 04:28 PM
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1. I love the little girl's request to Santa...
"All I want is a simple rubber ball."

"Sorry, honey, I ran out of those giving them to kids in the Middle East."
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 04:49 PM
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2. I love Bloom County..time to re-read all the books again, too.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 04:56 PM
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3. I was looking for one strip in particular (have not found it yet)
Where a nut case walks into Milo Bloom's desk with a letter to the editor.

Nut: Here, I want to submit this letter to the editor.

(About the second amendment)

Nut: You can take my gun when those commies pry my cold fingers, got to protect my, when guns are outlawed, oh my constitutionals... Anyway, it's all there in the letter.

Milo: Verbatim.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 05:07 PM
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4. Here's a true story....
Mid 1980's, and my youngest son is on a serious race to the bottom of the grade curve.
Just could not focus on school.
He trucks into the house one day and shows me an A on his history test.
I asked him how he performed that miracle.
Turns out he had been reading all of my Doonesbury and Bloom County books.
And I have them ALL.

he's 40 now and in college, microbiology.
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FireFly70 Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 05:23 PM
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5. great story!
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 05:28 PM
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6. Awesome!
My compliments to your parenting!

:hi:


My children were also allowed to explore our library.

One is an MS/CS, another is an RN, and the younguest is attending art school.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 05:45 PM
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7. I am flattered, and happily accept your compliment.
Both sons are truly quite intelligent, independent thinkers, and early on refused to buy into the sheep mentality.
I am especially proud of the last trait.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 05:48 PM
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8. That's great...
He had to be "engaged" in something to get his little attention going!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:05 PM
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12. that would explain the fact that most readers of Mallard Fillmore
barely can read ...
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:27 PM
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10. I remember that one, too
And the editor, when approving a story -"It's HOT. It's JUICY! RUN THAT BABY"

And Opus saying "Let me run it by our Hot 'n Juicy lawyers first"
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 06:42 PM
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13. Found it!

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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 08:45 AM
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14. Yeah, that's a classic
I have the book. I was going to scan it for you if you hadn't found it.
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foxfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:21 PM
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9. Is it just me or does the Mom in that toon look like one of the RLDS polygamy wives?
What with the hair, the dress and all.
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Rebel Scum Donating Member (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:53 PM
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11. It's stuff like this why I will always love Bloom County....
Not to mention the "Death Tongue" stuff back in the 80's...ROCK ON!!!!!!
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