Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 04, 2016

I wonder if Zonker, Boopsie and Mike did more harm to their brains by doing drugs, or if BD did more harm to his brain by playing football.

Kind of obvious, in retrospect. How many NFL players are being proved post-mortem to have had significant brain damage?

I had this book that I read repeatedly as a kid. “Did you ever look at your hands? I mean really LOOK at your hands?” became my go to line when pretending to be stoned.

I used to be fascinated with my hands even when I wasn’t stoned. Nowadays they are just depressing.

My wife’s hands are wonderful : thin,long and soft fingers with well cured and long nails . It’s my prefered part of her but the rest is not that bad

A flashback sequence in a vintage strip? Is this Doonesbury or Inception?

“I wonder if Zonker, Boopsie and Mike did more harm to their brains by doing drugs?”

I wonder if they did more good than harm? ;-)

Guess we all damaged ourselves when we were young and thought we were invulnerable. Think of the loud music; that’s probably why I had to get hearing aids last year. That and the target range located in a concrete garage where I and a dozen others practiced shooting once a week.! Ear protection? What’s that? What did you say?

Paul who?

That kid wouldn’t even know what a “commune” was.

The Age of Innocence had two time periods, Bong Crazy and After Drugs (court ordered).

“Life” magazine even ran a story on “Is Paul Dead?” Ringo’s comment, when asked: “Its a bunch of crap!” Paul’s comment: “If I was dead, I’d be the last to hear about it.” Amazing that those guys came out halfway sane after being Beatles.

I tended bar for several years at a disco where the dance floor was just off to my right. As a result, my hearing in my right ear is about half gone. The good news: I can fall asleep lying on my left side even when it’s noisy.

But is Paul really the Walrus?

I remember that fourth panel. And not from the comics…..

As the girl said on that tv program, “rehab? I’m still in prehab.”

Been there. Long to go back.

I was only 16 when the 60’s ended, but the 70’s were a blur.