Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 16, 2012
Transcript:
B.D.: He's usually wrong, but if Zonk's right, it's the end of football at Walden! Ray: Oh, man, I'm so sorry... B.D.: And it's not just the team that'll suffer, it'll be the whole community! No more rallies or tailgating or half-time shows... all that tradition will be wiped out if Walden goes public! Do online students riot and set fire to their own furniture? NO! Ray: Yeah, I'd miss that, man.
BE THIS GUY about 12 years ago
Nothing brings a student body together like a good riot.
MiepR about 12 years ago
I knew we were missing something.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Whatta pit, BD coaching online football.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Shudder. WWTGSS = What Would Troll Guard Sgt. Say?
AKHenderson Premium Member about 12 years ago
Maybe the Second Life folks could work out online football. And online rioting..Heh, jocks and thugs will be supplanted by computer geeks. I love it. Even if it is a sign of the Mayan Apocalypse.
basshwy about 12 years ago
There could be some serious tweeting and facebookin’ that could be sort of incitement, I suppose.
Beleck3 about 12 years ago
lol where would football be without drunk fans, cheerleaders and brain concussions.
now who would have thought Doonesbury would go there?
Linguist about 12 years ago
Yes don’t PSPTT , it’s NITC ( not in the constitution ) !
djmalloy about 12 years ago
It’s an ill wind that blows no good. Is this the good with for-profit schools? SEC sports schools spend more on athletics than on academics, because, “it brings in donations from alumni.”
Linguist about 12 years ago
Re: today’s stripIt brought back memories of the local town fire department coming onto our college campus to break up a bonfire pep rally for our basketball team.We did not take this unwarranted intrusion lightly. It ended with our dismantling their brand new firetruck ! Needless-to-say the entire student body were in deep trouble the following day.
kaffekup about 12 years ago
Sorry, not being a sports fan, this arc has become tedious. I’d rather see them deal with the reality than the speculation.
William Bednar Premium Member about 12 years ago
Humans are funny creatures. They are problably the only creature that willingly perverts it’s own means of survival and calls that perversion entertainment! Any other creature would soon die out it it did that.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“I played in the band.”πGSTB = “God Save The Band.”
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“every student … should …. They should …. Pay … go to jail … be banned ….”πspeaketh a would-be tin-horn godlet.
montessoriteacher about 12 years ago
Well, school has started. Maybe this is GT’s homage to going back to school.
marzipANn about 12 years ago
Something bloggers should always remember:“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. "-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Question for TROLL:πIf our sworn enemy communist China (OSECC), were to invade our sworn ally Formosa (Taiwan), as OSECC has sworn to do, then would we BORROW a trillion dollars from OSECC in order to fight OSECC? As we are sworn by treaty with Formosa to do?πAnd would OSECC loan it to us?πOr should we just PRINT the trillion and add it onto the national debt?πC’mon TROLL, you’re God (or godlet) now, answer up!
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“Troll = TRUTH!”π(No comment.)
water_moon about 12 years ago
Huh, my univeristy paper printed an April’s Fool edition that said they were going to get a football team and the student body nearly rioted. Even with the second page basically saying “gotcha!” the threat of football was enough to tick the CRUD out of everyone.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“It is called being responsible for one’s own actions.”πSo that’s why you can’t answer the questions!
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“… I was in … Wind Ensemble ….”πKeep going . . . confession is good for the soul.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“You haven’t shown any proof that [Guard SGT] is a Natural Born Citizen. You can’t. There is none.”
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“How about we just ….”πStill can’t answer the China-Taiwan question! Whatta pit!
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“Football is more than a sport ….”πAnd could be, at least potentially, a substitute for war.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“… they should …. One should ….”πStill avoiding the questions!
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“No amount of facts, laws, or Constitutional limits should get in the way of [Guard SGT’s] oh so perfect solutions.”
Rickapolis about 12 years ago
As long as the girls still get drunk…
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Hey Guard SGT.πU.S. guard sergeants don’t go to sleep while on duty! Or do they? Come on and man-up. Take responsibility! Answer the questions!
smalltownbrown about 12 years ago
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Guard SGT: πJust so you don’t lull yourself away into Nepenthe, here are the same three China-Taiwan questions again (condensed):π(1) If China were to invade Taiwan, then should we BORROW a trillion dollars from China in order to fight China? (2) And would China loan it to us? (3) Or should we just PRINT the trillion and add it onto the national debt?πCome on! Answer up!
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Babygirl, yeah, I’ve been thinking about you and what you’ve been saying about flagging. You’re an intelligent person. But I don’t think I’m going to flag Guard SGT, because I don’t think GoComics is going to do anything about him.πAs long as he’s not using censored language or making physical threats, then he’s probably going to survive GoComics management.πHowever, I take your point about not feeding him. And I’ll quit harassing him — in awhile. (I haven’t been answering him before today.)πGuess we’ll just have to suffer him like we suffer the heat, or the gnats outside.πSigh.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Everybody else: Here are my three answers to the three questions Guard SGT dare not answer, not even in his wettest of dreams:π(1) If China were to invade Taiwan, then should we BORROW a trillion dollars from China in order to fight China? NO! (2) And would China loan it to us? NO! (3) Or should we just PRINT the trillion and add it onto the national debt? NO!
montessoriteacher about 12 years ago
I’m glad our current prez is neither a hawk or dove, but a wise owl, who is very capable of sorting out the foreign policy, bearing in mind that the world is extremely complex.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
U.S. pop. reaching 100 million times π.πMontisoriteacher announced it here on this website. I think it means Uncle Sam should give me a hundred million bux!
basshwy about 12 years ago
When I was at uni, we completely dismantled a lecturers car and reassembled same inside the gym. Nobody got caught – for a while :)
basshwy about 12 years ago
Read what it was all about. It was a pep rally. It wasn’t a bloody riot until the fire department made it one!!
basshwy about 12 years ago
I can guarantee you that Dubya wouldn’t have let it interrupt his golf game.
basshwy about 12 years ago
Bloody well mattered to Germany after WW1.BTW – I wasn’t born in your country and neither do I owe it any allegiance but even I can pick a bigot when I see one. Oh and I was educated by the state in a system that is government sponsored. We don’t depend on Maccas or Coke or any arms manufacturers to pay for the institutions that should be run by the state.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“I have had to show an unforgered birth certificate ….”πAssertion isn’t proof. Your certificate was forged. Obama’s wasn’t.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“When it comes to war like that, you fight first and figure out how to pay later.”πWar like what? Like invading Iraq? Like invading China?
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“… mindlesly parrot the party lies ….”πOf course you mindlessly parrot the GOP party lies.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“I am NBC.Barry isn’t NBC.”πYou aren’t.Obama is.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“I am not President or even a lowly Usurper.”πOf course you aren’t W. Bush, but nobody cares.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“If I was President, I would honor our agreement.”πOf course you would invade China and kill perhaps a million or two million American service people, seriously and permanently wound several million more, only to have the whole world turn against us, including Britain, and in the end lose the war to boot — just like in Vietnam, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan.πYou care only about your idiot-ology.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“… you fight first and figure out how to pay later ….”πWith an attitude like that you’d also invade Russia and any other country that doesn’t agree, like Canada. You’d add trillions upon trillions to the national debt. You’d kill millions more of American troops. πYou also have no idea how much just the annual SERVICE on that debt would cost. So much that you would probably incite revolution and civil war in this country.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“There are times sleeping is authorized on duty.”πA guard on active watch NEVER sleeps and is NEVER authorized to sleep.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“I stick to the laws, facts, and the US Constituion.”πOf course you don’t.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“I can only wonder what you stick to?”πNobody cares what you wonder.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“I was … vetted … to earn a Top Secret.”πOf course you never had Top Secret clearance.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“… I am NOT a bigot. …”πAnd neither was Richard M. Nixon a crook.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
“That is so Stalinistic of you.”πStalinistic? Susan? Babygirl? Hah! (But at least you can crack an ironic joke.)
pawpawbear about 12 years ago
Woo-Hoo!!! Now that both sides of this idiocy have ripped one anothers virtual guts out, I’ll tell you what I think. You both, GuardSgt and DTpi, have finally proven to me that you both utterly disgust me. Both of you are using your own parties public lines and then feel threatened by the other’s rhetoric. I’m just a lousy old Vietnam vet, GaurdSgt. It’s quite stupid to reveal your clearance level. DTpi, your baiting is quite infantile for a grandfather. I’ll not go on, but I think I’ll begin to flag you both, or better yet, ignore you both.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Y’all, Since my last reply to him, I haven’t read any more of Guard STG’s posts. Thanx for the advice. I’m clean and sober now (fingers crossed).
DylanThomas3.14159 about 12 years ago
Y’all, still haven’t read any troll posts. C’mon John, Susan, CONGRATULATE me!
Dtroutma about 12 years ago
REMF confirms he’s NBC: Non-Brained Conservative? MAricopa Sheriff is just as big a joke. He couldn’t get a security clearance to guard Mitt’s toilet paper supply. Which speaking of the “corrupt party”, maybe if the Republicans would pay back some of what they’ve cost us since Reagan took office? Well, there wouldn’t be any significant national debt.
Dtroutma about 12 years ago
P.S., that isn’t “cost us”, it’s STOLEN!
stellablu122 about 12 years ago
Where is the discussion thread for this topic? Remember you have to answer and post to numerous fellow students during the week.