Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 07, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 4 years ago

    I see Jeff is still running up the food bill.

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    DennisinSeattle  almost 4 years ago

    This is too true!

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    It seems a Michelangelo Antonioni movie about incommunicability.

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    jmarkoff2  almost 4 years ago

    This reminds me of this “Poor Jennifer” story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05h6FYfahI

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    A cat! Just what this strip has always needed! And it only took 50 years!

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I’m from Wisconsin, where our motto for 2021 is “Remember: Zoom spelled backwards is mooz!”

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    casonia2  almost 4 years ago

    Instant classic!

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    claus.rogge  almost 4 years ago

    G.B. still has a keen eye for capturing day-to-day reality

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Great call everyone! Glad we could catch up.

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    sugordon  almost 4 years ago

    Today’s strip is magnificent! Great way to bring in multiple cast members too. And I love the cat as well.

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    KenseidenXL  almost 4 years ago

    So, is this the future I keep hearing so much about….

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Ya gotta love those cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjjG6I2y0M&ab_channel=YourMorning

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    John Ruttner  almost 4 years ago

    Ain’t nobody got a finger on the culture’s racing pulse like Garry Trudeau!

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    Lawrence.S  almost 4 years ago

    April-July, 2020. Most of us have gotten the hang of it now, and have a variety of virtual backgrounds to place us anywhere in the universe as we meet… Sigh, except for some parents who still aren’t on and whose faces haven’t been seen by distant children in over a year.

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    wrd2255  almost 4 years ago

    Progress? Regress? Maybe Con-gress.

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    RonaldByrd  almost 4 years ago

    Was there supposed to be some particular purpose to the call? I kind of failed to catch that.

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    Aspen_Bell  almost 4 years ago

    This got a genuine LOL out of me, especially Joanie’s microphone, and the cat! Wonder if Gary saw this?

    https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/04/22

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    Ignatz Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The rise of Zoom is amazing, because it’s HORRIBLE software. But it’s also the only thing that does what it does.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The Zoom Bloom has been a pretty big Jetsons step into the 21st century. Lots of us have stumbled on this trip, but we’re getting there.

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    barkleyspam  almost 4 years ago

    I do lots of Zoom — professionally, socially, musically — and it works FINE! I know, “working fine” doesn’t make for much of a comic strip, but I just didn’t want the novices here, like Prey, to get the wrong impression.

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    ChristineMurphy  almost 4 years ago

    I have one of those with two siblings every month. Looks very familiar.

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    awcoffman  almost 4 years ago

    He missed a big one – the persistent echo where no one can figure out who is causing it. Hint: it’s not the person whose voice is echoing; it’s someone who is listening without headphones and with echo suppression disabled.

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    oldchas  almost 4 years ago

    I…a…ways….sta……nd….b…hind……m….wi……and…w…a…ve.

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    Life’s a Beach  almost 4 years ago

    Add about 26 more boxes and make all of them 9 and 10-year-olds and this has been my life since last March

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    vick53  almost 4 years ago

    Oh, yaaaah! Love it!

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    gantech  almost 4 years ago

    Zonk is ok, it’s everybody else who’s upside down.

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    gantech  almost 4 years ago

    Why do they call it ’Zoom" when nobody gets anywhere??

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    artmer  almost 4 years ago

    Yep! That was March thru June 2020, right on!

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    montessoriteacher  almost 4 years ago

    My daughter, who has a degree in Animation from SCAD, seems to have no trouble with communicating with her friends this way. My husband isn’t nuts about it when he has to use it for work. I haven’t used zoom at all. Phones still exist and I have an iPhone so FaceTime is an option for those I know who also have an iPhone.

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    bryan42  almost 4 years ago

    If this ’toon had run a year ago 95% of us would have no idea what was going on. We had a zoom-together with friends just Friday night that was not much different except we had more drinking.

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    montessoriteacher  almost 4 years ago

    We should do a survey here to see who has had the vaccine, if they want to let us know. I have not. My husband has had both doses. My mom and both my brothers have had both doses. A close friend of mine had it because she’s a nurse who is volunteering to give the vaccinations. A doc on tv said there were 10x more vaccinations than new infections a couple days ago, so things are slowly turning around.

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    waltkamp  almost 4 years ago

    I like the daily reruns better.

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    RonaldByrd  almost 4 years ago

    Rosie has a compressed-air vehicle in her mouth? That seems so improbable. Oh, wait, the strip probably means a wireless earbud instead, that would make more sense.

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    beindevine  almost 4 years ago

    It’s why my monitor does NOT have a camera or audio!

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    ChessPirate  almost 4 years ago

    40 minutes: [BLIP!]

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    mistercatworks  almost 4 years ago

    We do introduce some chaos by grouping our video conferences. In Japan, a guy got fired merely for being out of frame twice during the video session. They have less tolerance for time-wasting “individualism”.

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    sueb1863  almost 4 years ago

    Funny how everyone ages except for Zonker!

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    JR0602  almost 4 years ago

    Yep!

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    Redd Panda  almost 4 years ago

    I must be a complete techno-klown…having no luck with this video chat stuff. Maybe I should get on the train and visit?

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    stamps  almost 4 years ago

    You left out the part where the porno hacker appears.

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    txmystic  almost 4 years ago

    Every. Zoom. Ever.

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    garcoa  almost 4 years ago

    Someone needs to tell Zonker to flush the toilet, but turn the sound off first.

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    NWdryad  almost 4 years ago

    Right on point. Especially Joanie’s reaction. If anyone knows of a Zoom app that will do the same thing as a smart phone air brushing app, please let me know!

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    Ermine Notyours  almost 4 years ago

    Red Rascal to the rescue! Just as he was about to liberate a Dagwood sandwich from the fridge, he comes across an activist whose voice has been taken away.

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    ferddo  almost 4 years ago

    Sure describes our Zoom group! We tried to make our meetings go better by first sending out an e-mail with some “rules of the road” (like muting your microphone unless you are going to speak), but apparently nobody read it. This is kind-of balanced out by the people who cannot unmute their mics but won’t follow instructions… Add two locations where they insist upon opening two or more sessions in the same room, causing a lot of feedback… and the people who never mute their mics while having side conversations… in an hour meeting I’m lucky to understand ten minutes of it.

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Is this a metaphor for the Democratic Party?

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Don’t forget the great-grandma where the camera’s only showing her forehead! (Hi, Mom!)

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    Eric S   almost 4 years ago

    Ha! I love classic style Doonesbury!

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    thedogesl Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    More true 6 months ago than now, but still funny.

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    JenSolo02  almost 4 years ago

    Perfect! How old are the twins? Given our discussion of Zeke and JJ this past week, it was nice seeing “Red Rover’s” alter ego helping his Mom, Joanie with her audio, and verifying that he still lives with his parents. What I liked about it was that it looked like he did it without being asked. He noticed she was having problems and went to her assistance. How did Zonker get upside down? …

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    blah_duh  almost 4 years ago

    Since we’ve been reading re run strips for so long, it’s nice to see what’s going on with everyone today. Of course, The Red Rascal is still at home. How many kids does Alex have now? And, it’s no surprise that Zonker is upside down.

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    knottytippet  almost 4 years ago

    Hahahaha!

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    bunrabbit99  almost 4 years ago

    wow, so original.

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    GaryCooper  almost 4 years ago

    Yes.

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    montessoriteacher  almost 4 years ago

    Part of the charm of this strip is that it does relate to our everyday lives. He is applying his fictional characters to what we are experiencing in our lives, which makes it fun to read. I’m glad he is still out there. Thanks, Garry!

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    LeslieAnn Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I love that Mike calls for his somewhat younger wife, Kim, to help with his glitch. Also, Garry is too classy to show the end of the cat most frequently seen in real Zooms.

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    Erin Pierce  almost 4 years ago

    I feel seen, er, not seen…well, heard… maybe not.

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    bakana  almost 4 years ago

    I didn’t know Zoom had the Upside Down option …

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    Will_Scarlet  almost 4 years ago

    Hopefully at some point we’ll get to hear what Mel did during the Capital Insurrection.

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    pamela welch Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Oh dear!! Spot on — LOLOL

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    lindz.coop Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I guess I’ve been incredibly lucky with both zoom and doxy.me.

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    Brazos_HouTx  almost 4 years ago

    Spot on!

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    prt1231  over 3 years ago

    Been there…LMAO

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    Bicycle Dude  over 3 years ago

    I tried Hangouts once, it was either audio and no video, or video and no audio using Android and Apple OS. Finally, I suggested a voice call using our phones, a novel idea that actually worked as intended.

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