Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 12, 2012
Transcript:
Joanie: ... and to think my granddaughter is getting married on the same spot I did! With the same minister! Rev. Sloan: This was after we dated, obviously... Joanie: Scot, we never "dated." We went to a Jeb Magruder lecture. Alex: A what? Toggle: Who... Jeb Ma-ma-gruder? Rev. Sloan: He was a top Watergate conspirator! Top! Alex: Sounds romantic! Rev. Sloan: You have no idea. Joanie: It was not a date!
BE THIS GUY over 12 years ago
Rev, you should of moved on a long time ago.
Linguist over 12 years ago
Hope he gives a 90 day guarantee.I had a minister who did and that marriage lasted almost twenty years. ( We won’t talk about the others.)
billydub over 12 years ago
Nothing “happened.” I was there.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Two “dates that weren’t” really, and married my wife, minister made no guarantees, 42 years and counting, and I had some of Toggle’s “oddities”. Gee, I stayed in the room at HoJo’s NEXT to the room the Watergate burglars were spotted from. They actually have a plaque in that room.
chicken 33 over 12 years ago
Lord takes care of his shepherds?
Blood-Poisoning Vermin over 12 years ago
>> “Let me hear you say yeah!”
Same here. Funny how so many panels from so many years ago are still stored in the memory banks. But I don’t remember where I put my phone yesterday.
peabodyboy over 12 years ago
Yeah, something happened, but only in the Rev’s mind. The Rev has always been a legend in his own mind. In the real world, not so much.
FriscoLou over 12 years ago
If it’d been G Gordon Liddy they would’ve connected.
“Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”
LeoAutodidact over 12 years ago
“Take THAT Mr. Secret Tapes!”
THOSE were the days.
ossiningaling over 12 years ago
I assume Joanie is referring to her SECOND marriage.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 12 years ago
the sound of…..okaaaaaay………….
peabodyboy over 12 years ago
Thanks for sharing. By the way, did you ever get your Ph.D. after your teenage lobotomy?
diggitt over 12 years ago
G Gordon Liddy! Wow, yeah—all Obama’s administration needs is jerks who prove their manhood by putting the palm of their hand over a candle flame until it bubbles and cooks. They sure were MEN back then.
diggitt over 12 years ago
Funny how we remember the past differently from our exes.
smalltownbrown over 12 years ago
Is Magruder Jeb Bush’s namesake?
Aloysius over 12 years ago
“Good for you, sweetheart. A black coffee to go.”
Bucinka over 12 years ago
Gee, Joanie. I have that strip. You looked like you were having more fun at the Magruder wingding than when Scot first asked you out…to vespers.
BE THIS GUY over 12 years ago
The Rev and Joanie went out in November 1972, after the Watergate break in but before the scandal blew wide open. The first date was to the Vespers. The second date was a stroll in the park, where they found themselves in the middle of a demonstration. Joanie broke it off before anything “serious” happened.