[Magdalen] From +Georgia

[Lynn Ronkainen]

IIRC back in the day Trudeau required his daily strip to run on/in the editorial section, so some papers didn't cover his daily initially. 
Lynn 

On Feb 11, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:

I'm right there with you too. The Sunday Doonesbury is still new material,
but Gary Trudeau no longer does a daily strip so we are getting old
material as "Classic Doonesbury". It's great because although I've always
read the Sunday strip I didn't often see the daily one back in the day and,
of course, didn't have online access to it then.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 4:29 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are having a rerun of Doonesbury, and we are going through that section
> where Zonker is in England, having claimed his title, whatever it was.
> Zonker in a fancy wig is a hoot.  Zonker, for those deprived ones, is the
> character Gary Trudeau invented to throw contemptuous barbs (all in fun) at
> the irresponsible and perennially childlike cannabis crowd.
> Zonker is invited to the home of a genuine lord of a genuine manor, and he
> just does not leave for four months or so.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
>> wrote:
> 
>>> On 11/02/2017 05:57, Mahoney, W. Michael wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> But, Lynn, just look at how much fun we've had while trying to figure it
>>>> all out!  And how much we've learned about the various designations for
>>>> bishops!
>>>> 
>>>> And it's not just a church thing.  English nobles were often referred
> to
>>> by
>>> the place to which their title was fixed.  So, when speaking of Lord
>>> Buckingham. for example, one could simply say "Buckingham" rather than
>>> using his given or family name. One reason the Shakespeare history plays
>>> can be so confusing is that both uses are employed.
>>> 
>> 
>> They sign their name with that single place name so "Bedford" is the
>> signature of the Duke of Bedford, who was the Marquess of Tavistock until
>> his father died. He then inherited the senior title while his son
> succeeded
>> to the honorary junior title. The father had four official styles during
>> his left. Initially The Hon Henry 'Robin' Russell from birth until his
>> fathewr became Marquess when he inherited the title Lord Howland a few
>> months later, which he held until he was 13 when his father became Duke
> of
>> Bedford for nearly 50 years, then he was Duke for some months before he
>> died and the titles cascaded down again.
>> 
>> Roger
>> 
> 



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