Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 17, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  about 2 years ago

    Donā€™t worry, Zonker. The losers are too embarrassed to come in your presence.

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    Red33410  about 2 years ago

    ā€œIt just is for one evening.ā€

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    Dean  about 2 years ago

    Recently at not an annual reunion but at a local collection of alumina gathering before our teamā€™s hockey game, all the young folks were unmasked and full of chit-chat, but the white haired souls were off in a corner and only unmasked for the beer and free appetizers.

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    KennethPrice2  about 2 years ago

    Winner of the George Hamilton Cocoa Butter Open

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    Mark Jeffrey Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Zonk isnā€™t living with his mom, sitting in a call centre under a mountain of student debt. Winner.

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    monya_43  about 2 years ago

    Winner or loser is mostly about self perception. Donā€™t pay attention to the naysayers.

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    Kilrwat Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Delusion springs eternal

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    Geophyzz  about 2 years ago

    Sundayā€™s Shermanā€™s Lagoon was about his wifeā€™s bad casserole. When I drew a parallel with our church pot lucks, I was cautioned about anonymity. My response was as pictured above, they would never assume I was speaking about them.

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    dbhamm  about 2 years ago

    I have an interesting question. To the best of my memory, Trudeau was drawing his strips in 1971 or ā€˜72 while I was in collegeā€”I read them whenever I could find a comics page on campus. But Mike, Zonker, BD, etc. was in the class of 1983? (Per yesterdayā€™s strip?) In BDā€™s case I can make allowances, because I remember him going to Vietnam in the middle of his studies. But it seems like an AWFULLY long college career for the others. I guess it was just the magic of comicsā€”after all, the Peanuts kids were kids for nearly 50 years.

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    198.23.5.11  about 2 years ago

    Zonkā€”-if an ROTC man appproaches you,donā€™t make eye contact.

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    awcoffman  about 2 years ago

    Just stay away from mirrors, Zonk.

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    Bruce1253  about 2 years ago

    Two thoughts:

    Sometimes what appears to be losing is someone who has chosen a different path than you.

    There are times when in order to become who you really are, you must pass through a period of time of being who you are not. In other words in order to appreciate winning, you must know what losing feels like.

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    mistercatworks  about 2 years ago

    Reunions are a bad place to ā€œre-frameā€ your life accomplishments. People gloss over things like failed businesses, violently ended marriages, and jail time. (Same with any online comparisons of your life to others.)

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    willie_mctell  about 2 years ago

    Hmmā€¦At 76 Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™ve done nothing with my life. Itā€™s not a big deal. Iā€™ve pretty much met my ambitions.

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    Brazosman1  about 2 years ago

    I still have classmates trying to convince me Iā€™m STILL that ignorant 19 year-old kid!

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    jbp3253  about 2 years ago

    Zonk is possibly the character in Doonesbury that I would most enjoy having a beer with. Iā€™d buy, of course.

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    sby14  about 2 years ago

    Even the losers, get lucky some timesā€¦.

    Tom Petty

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