Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 30, 2013
Transcript:
Zonker: Think cigarette marketing, Zip-- Marlboro's for guys, Slims for women, Kool's for blacks, same tobacco, but different images. There's no reason we can't create a "gay" brand of bud-- and own the category. Zipper: Except we're not gay! Zonker: Zipper, was the founder of Uncle Ben's Rice an elderly black cook? Zipper: Of course! He was a classic American success story! Zonker: Oh, dear... Zipper: Without Uncle Ben, there's no Dr. King! No Magic! No Tupac!
BE THIS GUY almost 11 years ago
I will say it once again: a Walden education.
BE THIS GUY almost 11 years ago
What is your excuse?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 11 years ago
Obviously Uncle Ben is as important as Aunt Jemima
Astolat almost 11 years ago
I take back my previous comments about Zipper needing to lose the round eyes…
the old professor almost 11 years ago
“Kools for Blacks” ? Huh?
cdward almost 11 years ago
Seriously? You’re comparing a fictitious pair of stoners with all Liberal arts degrees? That is seriously stupid.
2578275 almost 11 years ago
No, rpmurray. It’s the result of being raised by for-profit media without parental supervision.
avtar123 almost 11 years ago
You guys might want to go back to school, liberal or not, just to learn some spelling. What the hell is a Newpoat?
Radical-Knight almost 11 years ago
It appears “da igmoe’s is out in foce t’day.”
Gokie5 almost 11 years ago
When I was little, I had heard that God made us, so I envisioned him as a worker with an arm like the one on the Arm and Hammer soda box,weidking the mallet-looking hammer and crafting little children. In the background of his work shop was a magnificent stained-glass window.
celeconecca almost 11 years ago
The ancient, endless sigh of the older about the younger
ransomdstone almost 11 years ago
You are correct of course. The trolls that post will no be concerned beyond noticing that they got a response.
Gokie5 almost 11 years ago
That’s ’wielding." Sorry. I did a number on my third metacarpal or carpus or something (middle finger, left hand) yesterday and have wrapped my hand, which affects typing. Also affects “weild/wield”-discrimination part of brain.
Agent54 almost 11 years ago
@ allSeems many missed the point – both had a Walden education. Just different times and teachers.
Mythreesons almost 11 years ago
Please expand on your statement. “Their liberals” do something or say something? Oh, pardon me! You really meant “they are” didn’t you? Now your statement is understandable.
Alabama Al almost 11 years ago
rpmurray said,`This is your brain on a liberal arts degree.`-———————-`I have a strong feeling rpmurry thinks there is such a thing as a conservative arts degree.
vwdualnomand almost 11 years ago
and, there was no betty crocker.
Bob Blumenfeld almost 11 years ago
According to Wikipedia :
“In 1932, Forrest Mars, Sr., moved to the United Kingdom with the goal of growing the Mars food company internationally.5 While in the United Kingdom, Mars learned of Erich Huzenlaub’s work with rice. Huzenlaub’s London based company was called “Rice Conversion, Ltd.”6 The two eventually formed “Mars and Huzenlaub”7 in Houston, Texas,"
Mars also happened to be the head of Mars Candys, which also produces M & M’s. He’s supposed to have discovered the idea for them while in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
So Uncle Ben was as real as Betty Crocker.
susan.e.a.c almost 11 years ago
Why not simply create a grow-op that doesn’t destroy the soil, pollute the air, or turn parkland or farmland into waste territory, no longer suitable for crops or animals?? Too hard, I guess, to be organic. Better stay small scale, very small.
susan.e.a.c almost 11 years ago
Next, Doonie will have them try to be fake hipsters, then fake seniors, then fake blacks, and by January they’ll try and market themselves as muslims.
montessoriteacher almost 11 years ago
Marketing can make many folks believe anything. Ha! An American success story— Uncle Ben. How about Betty Crocker? I guess she was quite the success too, as someone mentioned. I hear that in Japan KFC has done a superb job of marketing around Christmas, so that in Japan they have the experience of getting Kentucky Fried Chicken as a big part of celebrating Christmas. It is a big thing there to get KFC and have a Christmas party on Christmas Day, I am told.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member almost 11 years ago
And “no Tupac” is a bad thing?
luvdafuneez almost 11 years ago
And, to EVOLVE.
luvdafuneez almost 11 years ago
True, that.
pbarnrob almost 11 years ago
Keys! Zip has Uncle Duke’s key, so there’s no B+E going on here. Glad they have a safe and warm place to spend the Winter, at least, clue or not about the Supermarket Icons.
montessoriteacher almost 11 years ago
They have an iPad on top of the mantle, so they seem to have enough to get what they need.
montessoriteacher almost 11 years ago
Advertisers definitely try to target niche groups.
Yuseff almost 11 years ago
What did the Black men driving Fords say?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 11 years ago
But here you show a decent sense of humor, toilet water and all
FrostbiteFalls about 2 years ago
And yet, his would be considered an offensive image in a few years.