Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 21, 2024

Did they served fresh brewed coffee with the fresh baked pellets?

hahaha “here we go”

What about all the past lives that Boopsie had or has?

That’s so last century.

This is the first I’ve heard of Boopsie’s Close Encounter. When was it?

“Ask her about your real Dad”… oh, zing!

I wonder what the “aliens” made of her alter ego?

Surprised we didn’t get a visit from good old Hunk-Ra.

I believe the statement made by an Air Force officer back in the 1960s concerning UFOs: “It they were real, (i.e.: actual alien spacecraft), all of us majors would be colonels.”

I’m not happy with this loony character that GBT equipped Boopsie with. She was introduced as not highly intelligent when she first appeared (Sep.71) but she didn’t need to have this crazy side. Has always bothered me a bit. Yes I shouldn’t let comic figures all that near to my heart, I know (except, of course, for Frank … still hope he’ll get back together with his Fran in a follow-up to the Congress of the Animals)

I wonder if the Flat Earthers have ever looked at the moon.

After her cedar chips were changed out for fresh ones, they gave her some yummy yogurt treats.

20 years ago today, B.D. lost his helmet.(Oh, and his left leg too.)

This reminds me of a Paul Simon song.

50+ years later and Boopsie still has that wide-eyed, clueless look to her.

I don’t believe aliens are visiting us, but having said that, I think it’s only fair to point out that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Looks like an SNL sketch with Kate McKinnon.

Boopsie will e’re be Boopsie …

Interstellar traveling vessels do require some intelligence to build. So far, aliens are not worried about us exporting our stupidity.

In the original film"The Day the Earth Stood Still," the aliens were afraid of us exporting our stupidity and threatened to take steps to prevent that. But the story upon which it was partially based, “Farewell to the Master” was very, very different from the movie. In the story, Klaatu is shot by a civilian, not an Army soldier. True to form for America, the shooter was mentally deranged, convinced that the alien was the devil…

Boopsie was a Guinea Pig in a previous life.

If aliens wanted to study intelligent species, they certainly wouldn’t come here.

Who are you going to believe ? Your own mom or the government ? That’s a tough one to answer I’m sure

she keeps forgetting the drugs in the 70s and their effects.

I’m surprised that daughter can find amusement in her mother’s trips into la-la land. Dad is somewhat resigned.

I"m wanting to hear about her ‘’Real Dad.’

Sounds like a repressed memory of a really bad hitchhiking experience. I knew a woman who was killed hitchhiking. She was a peace-loving flower child, very sweet but too acid-addled to be wary.

The smell of gunpowder at the O K Corral on a strange new world on the five-year mission.

Now I now where the black sheep of family came from.

Humans are very visually oriented. This is reflected in our vocabularies, where we have many more words related to vision than to smell. And our memories and our dreams can summon up visual images that we’ve previously experienced. We’re not nearly as good at recreating smells, so interestingly it’s the actual experience of a smell that calls back the memory of when it was experienced earlier.

I don’t have a sense of smell in dreams. No taste either.

That’s why that particular serial rapist has never been caught.

His victims keep falling for the grey rubber mask and the weird lighting.

So, she was on a pig breeding farm? Curiouser and curiouser.

If they’d beamed up Zonker the aliens would still be scratching their heads

Is that B.D.? Did I just realize this?