Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for October 17, 2009

Media revelations!

Breathe into the paper bag…

And you’ll need to put some Bailey’s in that Sanka when you find out that Heloise is just an old farmer’s chicken scratching out semi-legible words in the dirt.

The thing is, it’s not just phony newspaper columnists, it’s life itself. Nothing is ever as it seems. Deal with it. I personally find life a lot easier to deal with after I’ve downed a couple of double bourbons over ice.

I didn’t realize they still made Sanka. Why would anyone drink that?

Fake questions, fake answers, fake coffee. What’s the world of 1984 coming to!

The world of 2009, I hate to say

what is sanka? And they probably don’t make it anymore. This strip ended and now they’re rerunning the old ones.

Ha! I thought it was an alcoholic beverage. Everybody drinks “sanka” nowadays!

“Keeps you steady as a rock…”

Sanka was a form of instant coffee with no caffeine in it. It was often recommended for people who seemed to be overexcited.

-Cougar :{)

Alas, Skip Shearer no longer writes Walter Scott’s Personality Parade; he gave up the gig in 1991 and passed away ten years later at the age of 84.

And that’s not all: Those babbling idiots who give you the news on TV every day are actually Muppets. Life-sized, badly constructed Muppets.