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From: cma@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (christine.m.dakes)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:56:03 GMT
Summary: She's lookin' good Vern!
Keywords: far side gary larson

In article <1992Apr8.160435.24501@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
> 
> >What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?
> 


How 'bout the one with the 2 steer and one is blowing up an
inflatable cow (you can see the box for it too on his lap) and
the one looking on, with a very excited expression says to the
steer blowing it up "She's looking good Vern!"  I loved it!


Christine
From: rholmes@athena.cs.uga.edu (Robb Holmes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon and Kliban
Keywords: far side gary larson kliban
Date: 12 Apr 92 00:11:23 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <204769@unix.cis.pitt.edu> dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
....
>Anyone else familiar with Kliban?  "St. Roscoe preaching to the toilets"?
>"Sam lived by an ocean, which proved to be inaccessible"?  "Itzhak Diddley"?

Best of all, the very biblical, "Joseph and the coat of many crullers." 
-------
Robb Holmes  WUGA-FM  Ga. Center for Continuing Ed.  Univ. of Georgia
rholmes@athena.cs.uga.edu  rholmes@uga.cc.uga.edu  bitnet:rholmes@uga
I have no opinions.  Any in this message were caused by an Opinion Virus.
From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:33:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: i88.1992Apr09.163358.19106
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL

In article <1992Apr8.195200.11277@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>In article <1992Apr08.210742.129291@cs.cmu.edu> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>>Mother:(entering)  All right, who shot daddy in the head?
>>
>>Jeffy: I Dunno
>>Dolly:  Not Me
>>
>heading "Bil Keane is dead, so Billy is filling in for today's strip."  If
>there's one thing that's worse than a dotted line showing an errant kid or
>I. Dunno, it's those insipid "Kid's sketches."  UGH!!


	NO NO NO.  How dare you degrade this great strip by getting
the characters names wrong....it is "Ida Know"!

--Ken
-- 
Ken R. Dye				an optimist is a guy		 |
Interactive Systems Corp., Chicago	that has never had		 | 
(800) LAI-UNIX x341			much experience			 |
dye@i88.isc.comm						archy	 |
From: irving@eskimo.celestial.com (Larry Gilbert)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts, Snoopy, and Cookies
Date: 11 Apr 92 17:39:34 GMT
Organization: Eskimo North, Seattle, WA

wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan) writes:

>What is with Snoopy's obsession with cookies?  

Charles Schulz on his own dog:  "His name is Andy and I can't remember ever
having a dog I was so fond of.  I'm afraid, however, that he only likes me
because I give him cookies."  (from _Good Grief: The Story of Charles M.
Schulz_ by Rheta Grimsley Johnson)

A lot of "Sparky's" ideas come from real life.

-- 
Larry Gilbert : irving@eskimo.celestial.com (or irving@well.sf.ca.us)
"She really took you apart, didn't she, Charlie Brown?"
"Uh huh... step by step, verse by verse, and line by line..."
"You sound like a victim of higher criticism!"
From: ted4646@zeus.tamu.edu (kid eternity)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:41:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr07.192516.230591@cs.cmu.edu>, kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes...
>I hate that syrupy piece of crap.  It used to be good years ago, but now
>it's nauseating.

Foxtrot recently had a beautiful week of Family Circus parodies

"Now this one assumes you've seen _The Exorcist_"


> 
>And what is this guy's hang-up with dead people?


Maybe the only people that like FC are dead people.


-thomas
From: gert@cs.utexas.edu (Gert Westermann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:28:20 GMT
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: bosque.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1992Apr7.215418.28231@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>Anybody read this? Any opinions? 

  Yup. It's my second favorite (after ... guess... Calvin and Hobbes). Very different,
  though. This seems to be more about the "real life", as can be seen in last weeks story
  about the grandparents.

>Should she have had the third child?

  Why not, they seem to handle it pretty well. It seems no one would want to miss April now.
  And then, obviously she wasn't "planned". So they never asked themselves this question.

>Will Michael & Martha stay together forever? 

  That would be just too wild. They might stay together for quite a while though, but going
  through some arguments (that always makes good stories...) But then, growing up, their
  interests will change.

>Will Gordo turn his dad in for abusing him?

  Hmm, interesting thought. The story seemed to end rather abpruptly, but maybe if there
  are more abuses. 

  Another question: Will the grandparents eventually move in with the family? If one of
  them dies? How will everyone handle this?

  What do y'all think?

                          -- Gert
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From: ide@studio.enet.dec.com (Jamie Ide)
Subject: I Go Pogo
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date:  7 APR 92 14:49:30    


Anyone else out there follow Pogo?  What do you think of the present incarnation
of the strip?  Doyle & Sternacky got it going again, then Sternacky left, and
now two of Walt's kids (can't remember their names) have taken over.  It's too
early for me to tell if I like the Kellys over D&S, but it's nice to see the
Kelly name associated with the strip again.

My paper, The Boston Globe, tried to drop the strip and replace it with Non
Sequitor (another lame 1 panel joke strip), but brought it back after they got a
lot of complaints.

Jamie Ide

ide@studio.enet.dec.com 
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From: Ben Fulton <fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 08:13:49 -0500

In <167CAEEEB.M19249@mwvm.mitre.org> M19249@mwvm.mitre.org writes:

>>Remember the series where Calvin duplicates himself and the duplicate
>>produces duplicates of himself? So it ended up that there are 5 or so
>>Calvins running around.
>>
>Is that the series where the 'good' Calvin is ruining the 'regular' Calvin's
>reputation for naughtyness?

No the 'good' Calvin didn't appear until after Calvin added an ethicator to
his already working duplicator.  There's a good sequence on the duplicator
alone previous to that.

ben
fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
right here, right now
there is no other place I'd rather be!
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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:28:35 GMT

In <1992Apr7.232627.2176@math.ucla.edu> sherman@oak.math.ucla.edu (The Ahkond of Swat) writes:

>In article <n8742883.702685601@gonzo> n8742883@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson) writes:
>>
>>	Not only is Beetle Bailey sexist, but the addition of the
>>japanese soldier Yo (I forget his rank) protrays the american
>>stereotype of a japanese person: Hardworking to a fault, comically
>>loyal to superior officers, zero imagination, and following rules to a
>>literal extreme-- just like all good little japanese workers act,
>>right?

>It bothered me, too; Cpl. Yo's characterization is way over the line.
>In retrospect, when Lt. Flap was new, there was a some stereotyping 
>there but it was mostly restricted to Flap's outrageously baroque
>off-duty clothes.  It didn't extend to his day-to-day behavior.  But
>Cpl. Yo is offensive (to me, anyway).  

I think Yo is out of line, also.  (And what kind of Japanese name is
Yo, anyway?)  I thought the introduction of Flap was done much better.

My favorite Flap (from memory, so it's probably somewhat incorrect)

Sarge:  I'm proud to say I'm not a bit prejudiced.
Flap:  Sure you are.  Everybody is.
Sarge:  Nope, not me.  I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
Flap.  Everybody's prejudiced, Sarge.  Prejudice is just a manifestation
	of the cultural conditioning caused by our racial and socio-economic
	background.
Sarge:  Hey, I didn't know you blacks could talk like that!
Flap:  Just flushing you out, honky.

--
Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Gigabit Study Group 

  "It is considered good to look wise, especially when not 
   overburdened with information" -- J. Golden Kimball
From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:59:49 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <_y8t0w-@rpi.edu> pinelr@aix.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli) writes:
>
>   2.) Do you notice that Hobbes rarely calls Calvin by name, but Calvin 
>       addresses Hobbes by his first name frequently?

Why would he need to specify to whom he is speaking, when he only ever
speaks to one person?


-- 
          David M. Tate            |"The man who hath no music in himself
     dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu       | Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sound
  A poem should be dumb, / As old  | Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils
 medallions to the thumb.-MacLeish | 	Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice", A.V
From: an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Date: 8 Apr 1992 22:46:34 GMT

dxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas Fowler) writes:
>
> Don't you think perhaps it's sexist to get people to see how dumb
> sexism really is?

That's an interesting question, but I have to answer "no".  If a
cartoonist wants to do self-parody, it had better be blatant in order
for the message to come across in three or four panels.  "Beetle" just
doesn't come across to me that way most of the time.

> ...I never liked the fact the Sarge beat up on Beetle so fiercely,
> but I pictured it as a Laurel and Hardy sort of thing...

If anything, that bothers me the most about this strip -- Beetle gets
physically assaulted by Sarge with alarming regularity.  To me, that's
about as far from funny as anything gets.
--
David C. Tuttle                               dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Software Systems Specialist               Department of Biomathematics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         Houston, Texas
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From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Organization: Snow Goons R Us
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:59:15 GMT

In article <_y8t0w-@rpi.edu> pinelr@aix.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli) writes:
>
>   2.) Do you notice that Hobbes rarely calls Calvin by name, but Calvin 
>       addresses Hobbes by his first name frequently?
>
I hadn't noticed that, but maybe it's because Hobbes never talks to anyone
except Calvin.
From: sacass@unix1.tcd.ie (stephen andrew cass)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:24:07 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

CAT FUD is brilliant but my favourite is:
'Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of
professional basketball before and ankle injury diverted him into
science' with this really great cartoon od Einstein in a basketball
match dazzling all and sundry.

Number two is the one where this ( obviously a recent shipwreck victim)
is standing in the sea right in front a one of those desert islands. On
the island is this old castaway and his ventrilloquists dummy. The
speech bubbles from the old castaway and the dummy go:
	Castaway: Hey! Hi! I'm Bob and this is my Pal Gus! Say hello Gus!
	Gus: Watch out for Bob mister, he'll eat you first chance he
gets!
	C: Ha ha, don't mind him, he's just kidding! 
	G: He ate that German guy last year!
	C: SHUT UP GUS! So whats your name friend?
	G: He's Mad! Mad I tell you!

Just my 0.02 ECU's worth 
Steve 'Put the cat out, put the cat ouutttt..' Cass

Stephen Cass sacass@unix1.tcd.ie stcass@maths.tcd.ie TRINITY COLLEGE
DUBLIN, IRELAND. Oh yeah, like a 1st year undergrad really represents the
official views and opinions of TCD.*******THIS SPACE FOR RENT**********
"Million to one chances occur nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchet
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:28:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: bronze.1992Apr8.072856.8041
Organization: Indiana University

gert@cs.utexas.edu (Gert Westermann) writes:

>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>Should she have had the third child?

>  Why not, they seem to handle it pretty well. It seems no one would
>want to miss April now. And then, obviously she wasn't "planned". So
>they never asked themselves this question. 
I wonder if it was a contrivance on the part of the author. She discovered
that her characters were growing old and suddenly they have a new
baby, thus alklowing the recycling of a lot of old ideas.

I think that a miscarriage or accident of some sort would have been
much more poignant.

>>Will Gordo turn his dad in for abusing him?

And will he ever win the heart of Allyson Creemore? The strip where
he took her home after the party, then discovered she was back with
the jerk was quite well done.

>  Another question: Will the grandparents eventually move in with the
>family? If one of them dies? How will everyone handle this?

I think there's a good possibility that grandma will die soon. Of
course, it would be more interesting if healthy grandpa dies instead,
leaving frail grandma alone.

-- 
"The truffle is not an outright aphrodisiac, but it may in certain
 circumstances make women more affectionate and men more amiable."
                                                ...Brillat-Savarin
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Rose Is Rose
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:15:58 GMT

zulauf@csn.org (Mike Zulauf) writes:

>In article <29E3E40B.15470@noiro.acs.uci.edu> rallen@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Allen) writes:
>>"Rose Is Rose" is one of my favorites.... as a "family sitcom", it's not as
>>realistic as "For Better or For Worse" or "Foxtrot", but its loopy humor
>>and the way the worlds of the rather bizarre kids and their equally bizarre
>>parents mirror each other makes it approach the literary genre of "magical
>>realism". IMHO, of course. What do the rest of you think?

>     It fills me with the urge to defecate.

Well, I happen to like it, most of the time.  My favorite one so far is
when Pasquale and his dad try to convince a waitress that Pasquale's
straw is upside down...


                                         --Steve "How did you know he was
                                           my dad?" Stelter

                                           sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

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From: west@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West)
Subject: Fox Trot books
Organization: NEC America, Engineering & Support
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:36:41 GMT

From article <vlcoleman.702916458@node_ebfd>, by vlcoleman@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (vicki coleman):
> There are at least 3 Fox Trot collections available.  The latest one
> just came out a week or two ago.

There are four small Fox Trot books (in this order):
Fox Trot
Pass the Loot
Black Bart Says Draw
Eight Yards and Out

There is also a compilation "big" box called "The Fox
Trot Collection" (I think) that is a combination
of the first two books.

Mike West
west@esd.dl.nec.com
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From: gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca (Guy R Thomas)
Subject: Re: Outland vs. Bloom County (WAS Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:50:30 GMT

>In <gthomas.702690852@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca> gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca (Guy R Thomas) writes:

>>Not a big fan of 'personal is the political'?

>>Outland is *much* more evolved than Bloom County.

In <steph.702712796@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:

>I would use the word *devolved* myself.  Even though the characters from
>Bloom County have emigrated slowly to Outland, the heart seems to have
>gone out of the strip.  When I go through the old "Bloom County" books
>they're still good for chuckles and smirks -- I don't think "Outland" has
>done that for me in a long, long time.

>If Portnoy, Hodgepodge and Oliver Wendall Jones would join the cast it
>might help...

Help what?  Undermine the satire at the overblowing of political correctness
that thes characters represented in 'Bloom County', i figure.

>--
>Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Gigabit Study Group 

>  "It is considered good to look wise, especially when not 
>   overburdened with information" -- J. Golden Kimball

Guy
gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca
From: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:11:16 GMT
Reply-To: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center


I've got a couple:

"Man discovers tools"
	Shows a caveman getting bonked in the head after he stands on a rake.

-----

The one where we see an airplane taking off, and a frog attached to it by its
tongue.

----

The one where we see an oceanographer standing on the bottom of the ocean in
the water suit (don't know the actual name of the suit). He's looking up in 
astonishment as he sees the ship that he's from sinking to the bottom of the
ocean.

					Tony
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From: orson@bluemoon.rn.com (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Merchandising: What's unethical about it
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 15:29:46 EDT

> >"A thousand stuffed Hobbes doll turns the character into a knick-knack."
> >                                --Bill Watterson, paraphrased
> >
> Damn!  Now I will never know the answer to that Great Question, namely:
> Would the merchandised Hobbes dolls be the real Hobbes or the stuffed Hobbes?
What I would have loved to see is a set of two: Calvin holding up a 
stuffed Hobbes, and a real Hobbes holding up Calvin (as Stupendous Man or 
Spaceman Spiff).

 This is from
     orson@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:12:14 GMT

sacass@unix1.tcd.ie (stephen andrew cass) writes:

>Can anyone tell me what the one with the prehistoric men hunting the
>mammoth while one blokes spear misses and the caption is 'Air Spear! Air
>Spear!' means???

Basketball phrase.  When a player makes a shot and it completely misses
the basket--without even hitting the rim--the typical crowd taunt is
"Air ball...air ball..."

                                         --Steve Stelter
                                          sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

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From: orson@bluemoon.rn.com (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Calvin!!
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 23:51:07 EDT

> The strip when Calvin says he is gunna name the creek out the back
>  and when they get there thers already the sign "Hob's Crk".
>  Following the line of thought of someone else (cant remember the name)
>  Calvin is hardly going to make a sign for hobbs and the gp  away and
>  make his sign just so he can have a dispute with Hobbs is he.

I have already come to the conclusion that there is something seriously
wrong with Calvin's mind that would make him highly capable of making
signs just to have a dispute with Hobbes.
Proof:

In a series of strips, Calvin created a "good" Calvin who went to
school for him, behaved, etc., while the "real" Calvin stayed home and
read comic books. The "good" Calvin was seen by his mother, father,
teacher, and Susie. None of whom see Hobbes as real.

So: either Calvin is a super-genius and can actually build a machine
that can duplicate living tissue by drawing on the side with crayons,
or. . .

Calvin is a NUT CASE!!!

Quid Pro Quo.

Craig E. Smith                                        csmith@onetouch.COM
Columbus, OH                                        orson@bluemoon.rn.com
"Life is a fulltime occupation."--Gene Kalman   ...!uunet!onetouch!csmith
"It's just one .sig after another."--me   ///<<<{{{[[[(((*)))]]]}}}>>>\\\
From: MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu (Norman St. John Polevaulter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Outland vs. Bloom County (WAS Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Date: 12 Apr 92 21:55:31 GMT
 <1992Apr7.222128.30505@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <gthomas.702690852@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca>
 <steph.702712796@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> <gthomas.702755430@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca>
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy

In article <gthomas.702755430@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca>, gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca (Guy R
Thomas) says:
>Help what?  Undermine the satire at the overblowing of political correctness
>that thes characters represented in 'Bloom County', i figure.

That's what annoys me most about Outland, IMHO (amongst a whole pile of
other annoying things, that is.) EVERY WEEK he's harping on Political
Correctness. Please, Berke, give it a rest!

Outland is a nightmarishly distorted version of Bloom County. It'll
never hold a candle to its predecessor, at least not in its current form.

[Your blood pressure just went up.]       Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
 DISCLAIMER: Penn State cares about my money, not my opinions.
  "All my father wanted to do was make a toaster you could really set the
    darkness on -- and you perverted his work into those horrible machines!"
From: buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Best Long Time Strip/Gahan Wilson/Cutter John
Date: 16 Apr 92 04:10:52 GMT
Organization: Carlos` Wonderful Wacky World of Tunafish

In a previous episode on rec.arts.comics.strips,
west@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West) drops complete science:

>
>My all-time favorite Bloom County has to be the one where the kids
>are trying to organize an anti-nuke rally at the local college
>campus.  While doing so a cockroach approaches Opus and says "Are
>you guys worried about nuclear war?"
>"Yes." Opus responds.
>The the cockroach yells "Well we cockroaches aren't!  We're 657%
>more resistant to the extremes of heat, fire and radiation, so
>GO AHEAD AND PUSH THE BUTTON YOU SUICIDAL GOONS!!!!!"
>*Squish*  (Opus steps on the cockroach.)

	I think I must be sick, because almost all my favorite Bloom
County's involve those damn cockroaches. They were some funny little
six-legged critters.
	All the others I really like revolve around Oliver. I will
never ever forget the one where he is hacking and upon breaking into
someone else's computer, dons a head scarf and wields a sword, 
yelling, "Abast, ye maties! We's a comin' aboard and we wants all
the booty!" My friends and I still use that damn line when we are
conquering something :).

-- 
   		  Carlos Dragonslayer Butler
 buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu                  Chicago, Illinois
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