[Magdalen] From +Georgia

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 18:23:45 UTC 2017


I remember that, but I also remember that the strip was larger than the average strip, so it wouldn't fit neatly on a regular comics page. Probably also by design!

> On Feb 12, 2017, at 11:11 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Christopher Hart
> 
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