Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 14, 2011

Is the scotch single malt or the cheap stuff? Oh, anymore questions about where Leo lives?

It’s Night Train; she just pours it into a Cutty Sark bottle so it’ll look classier.

Mine just smelled old. But that was a very long time ago.

Don’t remember mine smelling like anything in particular. Gingerbread men, I suppose, but that’s only because she always baked them when we were little.

Wintergreen grows wild in my area. The reason it has that name is that the berries taste like Wintergreen Lifesavers.

All mine died before I was born. In fact, when my Sisiter died, I was 56 and the oldest blood relative in my family.

My Grandmother was an old-school Texas woman . . . which meant that, among other things, she dipped snuff and could out-fish any cracker in the neighborhood.

You know what my grandmother smelled like? Depends.

Thank you! I’ll be here all week.

Mine smelled like CC…………..

Scotch and Absorbine Jr.; both are used for pain relief.

My grandma wore Bal a Versailles and witched water. I gave her a bottle of Yardley’s April Violets once (which I thought smelled like fresh cucumbers) and she never wore it. She drank Southern Comfort and read Emerson and the Christian Science Monitor. People are complicated.

Grandma staying under same roof won’t cramp style, huh? Yeah . . . right . . . we’ll see about that.

And both your mother and father were 100% thumbs-up about it, I suppose.

My Maternal Grandmother was one of the very few people who lived in 3 centuries; born in 1899 and died in 2001. I should be so lucky. She was amazing, using my 20/20 hindsight.

MY maternal grandmother would have had a stroke to even think such a place even existed much less consider going there.

Grandpa smelled of dentures & farts. Another old Scandinavian.

Alex will probably cramp Gram’s style.

Leo worries about granny crimping Alex’s style, but the extra rent from Joanie has already eased his girlfriend’s crimped budget and bought her this train trip (as lwp first pointed out) to his trailer.Interesting that so many readers want to compare their childhood memories of their grandmother with Leo’s. Like him, they assume their grandmothers never meddled in politics.GBT is making exactly the opposite point: that Joanie is as politically active, and politically more clear-headed, than these two young lovers whose main goal in life is to make enough money to maintain a cool style detached from politics.

My grandmother smelled like Raleigh cigarettes, and taught me how to drive. Basic rule of thumb? Anything under 60mph was slow. Most used phrase was, “don’t drive so slow”. I learned that a Rambler American could safley hit 70mph on a back twisty road.,

I think my maternal grandmother smelled faintly of sulpher but I kept out of her path so I’m not certain.

@jrmerm – right, only people who support your candidates are sane. Clinching proof of a narrow mind, I think.

I don’t remember my grandmother having a distinctive smell, but the house smelled like chicken soup. Except near my grandfather’s chair, where it smelled like pipe tobacco.

One smelled of Absorbine Jr., the other of Ben Gay. But that was only on their bad days. Rest of the time, they smelled like ginger or cinnamon – they both liked to bake.

Forgot to say, I really like Absorbine Jr. It works on the sore muscles, and it clears your sinuses. Also works for crowd control.

One of my grandmothers taught French, German, Latin and Greek, had a smile like Voltaire and was the coldest human being I hope I ever meet. The other gram had a third grade education and made the best doughnuts I’ll ever taste. They both grew up in the 1880s!

Final comment on where leo lives. Email sent by BD to Alex to vouch for Leo states Virginia. Here is the link:

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2009/03/26

The number 1 commodity a grandmother has is love. My maternal grandmother had it in spades. My paternal grandmother, well, she tried.

Is there nobody posting today who’s young enough, like Alex, to have had a politically active grandmother like Joanie Caucus?At least some of our mothers must have been born after the Nineteenth Amendment.

@jrmerm – I find your comment about lefties and righties to be just the opposite. It’’s extremely common for righties to spout talking points (second hand thought) and rarely discuss the issues, lefties generally try to stick with the data – is my experience. And you only need to visit any news site (yahoo news for example) to see righties stupidly attacking anything on the left, without any kind of argument or evidence whatsoever to back them. They’re just venting anger that they’ve been programmed to direct. I even see it among my neighbors and relatives – zombies I call them. (Do you see how I’m providing you with evidence to back my argument?):You posted a comment about a character in this strip, inferring that she must be demented in some way to want to work for Elizabeth Warren. Maybe you meant it differently, but I (and I think others on this thread) took it as a common right wing slur on anyone who chooses to work for a candidate that isn’t on the right. If I took it the wrong way, then I’m wrong, and I apologize.

@kirksinclair; I do indeed agree with you. My experience is that people of the right wing tend to make personal attacks, while people of the left wing are more likely to think about the issues themselves and comment on them.

The Occupiers of Wall Street are fighting FOR the cops. They are also fighting for teachers, firefighters and paramedics. If it was up to the 1%, the cops could not negotiate for salaries or benefits. They would be going out there and putting their lives on the line everyday for whatever crumbs the politicians decided to give them.

heaven! the specificity! the concise! ah, kudos, GT!