Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 11, 2010

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    Steve Bartholomew  over 14 years ago

    Which is how we lost the war.

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    FriscoLou  over 14 years ago

    Jeff’s on the path for a rebound. Zipper would never be that resourceful.

    I love the way he improvises under pressure. Jeff’s a self starting go getter, a risk taker creating his own destiny, for what it’s worth.

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    GrimmaTheNome  over 14 years ago

    Oh nooooooooo!

    Jeff’s a self starting go getter, a risk taker creating his own destiny, for what it’s worth.

    Its a misconception (especially popular in the USA) that a ‘can do’ attitude is invariably a Good Thing. For people like Jeff, for whom the term ‘SNAFU’ seems to have been invented, it really isn’t.

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    parethed  over 14 years ago

    And that destiny would be disaster…much like Afghanistan…

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    riley05  over 14 years ago

    If only Bush were still President.

    Then Jeff would be rewarded.

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    Hugh B. Hayve  over 14 years ago

    You go Jeff! And right now the Afghans are hiding all the sharp objects and loose I.E.D.s

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    Brer_Rabbit10  over 14 years ago

    Grimma,

    I think the acronym you meant was FUBAR.

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    peter0423  over 14 years ago

    Baslim, I once had a boss whose expression was, “Are you sure this is the ditch you want to die in?”

    (Great handle, by the way. A Robert A. Heinlein fan, I take it?)

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    babka Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Anthony: I was going to say….this IS the parable of George Bush and his Pappy.

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    Potrzebie  over 14 years ago

    Hmm, Ricks expose can be titled “GOING ROGUE”?

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    randgrithr  over 14 years ago

    With a boss like Havoc this is about the only way he’d ever get anywhere.

    Of course, whether this is a setup for the acronym known as BOHICA, remains to be seen.

    The real screwups get covered up. Just ask John McCain. ;-7

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    swymore  over 14 years ago

    Hey “Joe” Doty. Every single day you comment on this strip. You DO realize it is a cartoon and not real. RIGHT??

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    zev.farkas  over 14 years ago

    Alphabet soup on today’s menu - yum! :)

    Bill Case said, about 4 hours ago:

    Grimma,

    I think the acronym you meant was FUBAR.

    IMHO, SNAFU and/or FUBAR fit Jeff just fine…

    randgrithr said, about 1 hour ago:

    …Of course, whether this is a setup for the acronym known as BOHICA, remains to be seen.

    OK - i’ll bite - what’s BOHICA?

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    peter0423  over 14 years ago

    zev.farkas: Ain’t the Internet cool? You can look up anything. :)

    BOHICA - USMC origin - “Bend over, here it comes again.”

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    zev.farkas  over 14 years ago

    thanks, scaaty_423 - i think…

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    GrimmaTheNome  over 14 years ago

    In Jeffs case perhaps SNFUBAR even ;-)

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    Alabama Al  over 14 years ago

    It is a dark cloud indeed that doesn’t have some silver lining. If Jeff doest get iced doing something stupid, it will be (I think) before he reproduced, therefore improving the gene pool.

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    Justice22  over 14 years ago

    I think Jeff is about to get lucky again — and not with a woman.

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    mjlew01  over 14 years ago

    If your in a hole and you want to get out. the 1st rule is to stop digging.

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    jpozenel  over 14 years ago

    You can’t keep a good man down!

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    FriscoLou  over 14 years ago

    Jeff’s travails remind me more of Winston Churchill, than GWB. This is a minor setback in the path to glory and greatness. Single mindedness and determination should be enough to carry the day.

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    RinaFarina  over 14 years ago

    As to BOHICA, I just looked it up at the Urban Dictionary site (urbandictionary.com). I used to ask my nephew to tell me all the new acronyms as I came across them, but I haven’t had to do that for a while.

    I still say that you can use the Internet to find answers to any question; the only question is, how much you can trust the answers…

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    FriscoLou  over 14 years ago

    At the end of the day I can see Jeff becoming the “Directorate” of the CIA.

    They should build a new HQ, whether they need one or not and name it after him.The “J Redfern institute of Espionage”.

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    randgrithr  over 14 years ago

    I am sure there are those who find the “Jeff Redfern, CIA doofus” thread amusing, but the avoidance of the more unsavory issues swirling around the CIA - things like their complicity in heroin trafficking and torture - is distinctly un-Trudeau-like.

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    ransomdstone  over 14 years ago

    Thank you Babka. You nailed it. It is the story of Bush and “W”.

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    BigHug  over 14 years ago

    Commerce1943 I think Joe answered your comment. I don’t know any other way to interpret “do you think I’m that dense” as a no. We all have different personalities here and we get on each others nerves from time to time. That’s life. But why such hostility? Why dissect each others postings for hidden meanings? Why such anger when people don’t agree with us or have different viewpoints? We are not all the same and shouldn’t be the same. Biggest “problem” I see with Joe is his rambling. So what! If you don’t like it then skip it. It’s such a soap opera here.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Not to worry folks!

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    Llywus  over 14 years ago

    It’s been quite a while since GT let one of the central characters die. Maybe this is a good time to lose another character.

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