Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 05, 2010

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  about 14 years ago

    Duke upholds his reputation!

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    margueritem  about 14 years ago

    baslim, you stole my line! Me four.

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    ksoskins  about 14 years ago

    A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

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    jeanne1212  about 14 years ago

    ..Baslim >> re:comment on Sheik ~~~ And this, for you, is a bad thing because…?

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    Alabama Al  about 14 years ago

    Judging from all the little bubbles swirling around his head, Duke must be hitting the “meds” hot and heavy. What with flacking for BP, Trff Bmzklfrpz (President-for-Life of Berzerkistan), and God only knows how many other slimeballs, Duke’s coping choices probably consist of either doing the booze and drugs or eating a gun.

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    cdward  about 14 years ago

    ^He wouldn’t be Duke without them. Which leads me to ask, how is he even still alive?

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    HeckleMeElmo  about 14 years ago

    Admit it, Alabama Al, you didn’t spell that from memory!

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    lewisbower  about 14 years ago

    GEE Got to agree. American success story, an uneducated man who sold to the highest bidding radio station. “you want me to say what? OK Mr Producer, if that’s what gets rating. I’ll say anything, I’m a paid performer.”

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    neil900  about 14 years ago

    Today’s strip and the one of the 3rd of August are invisible from Italy. Is this due to censorship here in Italy or, maybe, at the origin, in the US?

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    Potrzebie  about 14 years ago

    Hmm, the well will soon be capped, so this storyline is going no-where. I sure hope Duke hires Redfern for some dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

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    tomtweit  about 14 years ago

    A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

    I thought that was Clint Eastwood?

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    Ermine Notyours  about 14 years ago

    cward: how is Duke still alive? How is Keith Richards still alive.

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    david5992  about 14 years ago

    Calling Duke a “dirt-bag” is an insult to the other dirt-bags.

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    benbrilling  about 14 years ago

    I can’t think of any comic character I dislike more than Duke. I guess that is a complement to Mr. Trudeau.

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    Frankr  about 14 years ago

    Nice segue from an Uncle Duke arc to a Toggle sequence

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    Mythreesons  about 14 years ago

    Speaking of “Sheik” and John Wayne, do you remember the movie where Wayne played Ghengis Khan? Has to be the worst movie and worst casting in the history of Hollywood.

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    alan.gurka  about 14 years ago

    Don’t they read their clients’ scripts before allowing them on the air? They’re just as guilty for accepting his money to give him air time.

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    BrianCrook  about 14 years ago

    No, Algurka, they’re just hired to sonically engineer these spots. Toggle & Sherm have no say in the matter of the spots.

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    hymenoxis  about 14 years ago

    “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do”…John Cleese’s cowboy character from the “Arthur Pewtie” sketch, Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

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    Nemesys  about 14 years ago

    It’s an interesting moral question though, algurka. Was Leni Riefenstahl responsible for the consequences of her movies? And if so, was her sound engineer just as responsible?

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    Nemesys  about 14 years ago

    “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do” is generally attributed to John Wayne in “Stagecoach”, but Wikianswers says that what he actually said was “Well, there’s some things a man just can’t run away from.”

    In “Hondo”, he says “A man ought’a do what he thinks is best.”

    Charlton Heston in “Three Violent Men” says “A man must do what he must do.”

    But the first one who is actually confirmed to have said the line on screen was George Jetson (George O’Hanion.) “Ha, ‘a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do’. I should’ve won three space Oscar awards.”

    I like some of Wayne’s other supposed quotes better.

    “Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home”

    “Get off your butt and join the Marines!”

    “Get off your horse and drink your milk.”

    “Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much. ”

    “If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’

    “Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”

    http://www.cowboyway.com/Clips/FillYourHands.wav

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    pirate227  about 14 years ago

    Duke is classic, I can see him with his own show on Fox.

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    Ushindi  about 14 years ago

    Mythreesons: Yeah, that was “The Conqueror”, a famously bad movie. I have over 800 movies in my collection of many years, and that is NOT one of them. It even had Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead, William Conrad and Lee Van Cleef, and was directed by Dick Powell - but nothing could save it. I would rather watch “Pluto Nash”…

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    Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago

    pirate227 said, Duke is classic, I can see him with his own show on Fox.

    He did have his own series of videos from his Duke 2000 presidential campaign that aired on Larry King and other places.

    http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/videodump.html

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