#53448 - 02/03/02 10:56 AM
Re: A Boy and His Penguin, or, Two Dips and a Dad
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Bear
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I love Bloom County. I do think the standard declined in the last few years, but at its peak, it was just perfect. My family and I used to have all the books, and they've all sort of vanished - the only one I have left is Penguin Dreams.
Anyway, one of my favourite moments is the one where Binkley meets his dad's new date:
"I'm Stormee, with two Es"
"I'm appalled, with two Ps"
"Appalled with two Ps" has long been a part of my family's vocabulary. As has "he's off the drugs and high on life!", from Bill's serialised biography.
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#53449 - 02/03/02 09:39 PM
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Angiv
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My best friend at Uni (who's posted here once) introduced me to the wonder of Bloom County. She gave me a couple of books: Goodnight Opus, and...another one that I can't remember offhand.
She got one of those rip-off-a-page-per-day calenders one year and gave me half of the pages. I used to stick a different one up on my door every week and listen to people snigger as they walked by.
My all-time favourite is probably Opus's complaint about the video for Yesterday..."Half-naked exploding porpoises!"
Edited because I have this chronic condition called "inability to type".
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#53450 - 02/04/02 05:17 PM
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JohnConstantine
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Bear, you mentioned one of my all-time favs. hee!
Also, just about anything with Cutter John.
"Fascinating, Captain. It appears to be the IRS auditor whose appointment we're skipping."
"Set phasers on kill, Mr. Spock..."
And who can forget when Binkley dredged up ol' Bill Cosby from his Dad's anxiety closet? Bwah!
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#53451 - 02/18/02 06:44 PM
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Snerr
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I got in trouble for bringing a copy of Loose Tails into school in 7th grade. It was an extremely fundamentalist, Bible-believing, daily-chapel-having place and yes, I do know all the words to "Onward, Christian Soldiers". But I have long forgotten the words to the pledge to the Christian flag.
I'll never forget Mrs. Spurrier tapping the book cover with one finger and her heinie with her other hand, saying "Do you know what a 'loose tail' is?" And I'll never forgive her for the disparaging comment she made about my parents' lack of control/awareness/whatever over my choices of reading material. (Yay, parents!)
My father (who was usually kept in the dark about my reading material, now that I think about it) absolutely LOVED any BC column that featured the cockroaches. God, that man laughed about those roaches.
(This same man was shocked and appalled when my brother brought home a Monty Python album in high school...oh, Papa, how much you missed.)
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#53452 - 02/18/02 07:21 PM
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badverb
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I can't let go of "pear pimples for hairy fishnuts."
Hmm. Something's not right, there.
*Clears throat* I still have a duct-taped copy of Loose Tails. What a good strip.
(thanks, Snerr.)
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#53453 - 02/18/02 08:36 PM
Re: A Boy and His Penguin, or, Two Dips and a Dad
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Snerr
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badverb, I just keep giggling about that one!
*wiping eyes again* ...BWAHHH!
[This message has been edited by Snerr (edited February 22, 2002).]
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#53454 - 02/26/02 09:31 AM
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grandefille
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Opus, modestly wrapped in his towel from the Holiday Hotel and wearing his floral shower cap, is watching rather warily from my office bookcase as I type this.
That's probably because he knows I'm going to pull out my yellowed Sunday strips and regale you with:- "Prepare your pencil! L.H. Puttgrass, pundit for the people ... will publicly ponder for posterity ... Shoot the lawyers! More skin on HBO! L.H. Puttgrass signing off and heading for the tub!" (BTW, this strip now gets me immediate tech support. Our tech director saw it in my office once and we had a 30-minute Bloom County conversation. w00t!)
- "And that's the way I was, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1988. Courage! Bush is a noodle." (The more things change ...)
- "Smooth-chested men leave me clammy."
- "It's bad. Its badness cannot be fathomed by the human mind. It's bad floating in a sea of even worse badness. It's kick-your-grandmother-down-the-stairs bad. Well, maybe not that bad, but Lord, it's not good."
- And of course, my idol, Oliver Wendell Jones, who hacked into Bell Telephone's customer accounts file with a hearty "AVAST, ye scurvy corporate swabs! Prepare to be boarded! On to pillage!"
My copies of Bloom County Babylon and Night of the Mary Kay Commandos are so dog-eared that they belong on Rosebud's head. My sister's nickname has been "Big Pig Peaches" for years. And I still tear up at the thought of those star-crossed lovers Bill the Cat and Jeanne Kirkpatrick. I always look for dandelion patches (and try to find a rhyme for Caspar Weinberger), and I'm always disappointed when I go into the voting booth that there's no "Meadow Party" candidate on the ballot.
Erm.
Did anyone else like "Outland," the Sunday strip Breathed did for a while after BC ended?
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#53455 - 02/26/02 02:05 PM
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JohnConstantine
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Originally posted by grandefille:
Did anyone else like "Outland," the Sunday strip Breathed did for a while after BC ended?
No. It had a few moments, but I loathed "Ronald-Ann" with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns, and Breathed clearly lost much of the heart of his strip when he stopped drawing the kids.
I'm personally quite fond of the "Net Wars" (by Dr. Opus Spock, natch) saga that ran in Billy and the Boingers Bootleg. I can tell you from first-hand experience that there's always "something a mite weird goin' on down Weinberger Way".
hee.
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#53456 - 02/26/02 08:15 PM
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Snerr
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Echoing that. The love died the day I cut the strip out of the paper...the one where the last frame fades away.
I am going to bring my Penguin Lust Opus to bed with us tonight. *sniff*
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