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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 12, 2015
Transcript:
Bartender: This better be good, pal! Man: I'm sorry, Marcia. I can't stand idly by and watch you do this to yourself! I should have said something sooner, I know. I guess I took it for granted that you would always be there, smiling out at the world. Forgive me, Marcia. I thought you were too much woman for me, so I pretended I didn't care. It was a lie. I do care! I always have! Marcia: That's very sweet. Who are you? Man: Albert Schmeckel. I'm in personnel.
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
Marcia, your parents will love him; I think heâs Jewish.
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
Fortunately, he had enough sense and good fortune to get out of there.
wcorvi over 9 years ago
Einstein once said that if his theory turned out to be right, heâd be a great German scientist. If it turned out wrong, heâd be a Swiss Jew.
c. davies â the napkin and olive are relativistic effects.
Linguist over 9 years ago
Trudeau always deliberately altered the drawing in one panel. It became a game for readers to spot the differences.
denny_graham over 9 years ago
No cleavage in third panel.
kountryking over 9 years ago
âSchmeckelâ is Yiddish for a little penis.
Linguist over 9 years ago
Schmeckel looks a lot like a young Woody Allen.
Malcolm Hall over 9 years ago
He wonât be good enough for her.
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen over 9 years ago
Her knight in shining armor.
DeeBeeS over 9 years ago
Bobarion,
That Hitler thing, about some of his family tree being Jewish is a myth. His family did not have Jewish members.
The myth got conflated with true facts about Hitler:
1) The doctor who delivered him WAS Jewish; a fact that irked him his whole life.
2) Some members of his family â primarily cousins â were mentally ill. Hitler had them liquidated just before he came to power. He did not want the knowledge to get out that his âlineâ was not pure Aryan stock, and that HE may be vulnerable to having a mental illness.
He felt that knowledge of his cousins would give his political and military enemies fodder for attacking his âpure bloodâ views and making him look like a hypocrite.
Hitler was very likely a paranoid schizophrenic (seeing enemies everywhere, lashing out with angry tantrums at minor errors by subordinates, feeling betrayed by friends and commanders, etc.); thus, confirming what he feared the most!
kaffekup over 9 years ago
It may come from a story that his grandmother worked as a maid for a Jewish family and was impregnated there; again, no proof.
Coyoty Premium Member over 9 years ago
Hitler was the one the family should have kept in the room under the stairs, on a chain.Hopefully never to get a letter from an owl.Maybe he would have turned out better if he were raised differently. This was addressed in the Babylon 5 episode âVoices in the Dark: Over Thereâ.
Argythree over 9 years ago
Schmeckel is a yiddish word, not a Hebrew word. Yiddish is a language created from mixing German and Hebrew (and Polish and Russian, depending on where your ancestors lived). There were people who used that language because they lived around, or did business with, others who used the language; it was a way of creating a language bridge among people who typically did not spend time with each other. But it is still not an indication of religious belief.
There is an African American woman working for my employer who has the last name of âCohenâ. She is not married, either, this is her family name. But she is not Jewish, and knows so little about the religion that she scheduled what is called our âDiversity Dine-in Dayâ (a day when different ethnic foods are brought to a central meeting hall for the employees to eat during lunch hour) on Yom Kippur, which is a day on which observant Jewish people fast.
The name âCohenâ is most associated with the Kohanim, who were the original priestly tribe of the ancient Israelites. Presumably, a âCohenâ who knows anything about the religion wouldnât schedule a feast day when Jews are fasting.
So. Schmeckel might very well predict his abilities (or lack thereof, although we are told that âsize doesnât matterâ). BUT the name doesnât inevitably predict religionâŠ
Richard E over 9 years ago
Because itâs a conspiracy! Just like everything else.
vexman over 9 years ago
again, comments not from vexman, but me, i need to open my own account.