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Family Circus: Billy weighs in on the war in Iraq

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:23 am
by Bennett Cerf
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:52 pm
by dudelsack
Is that real? Who even fucking reads Family Circle any more? Jeesus.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:56 pm
by krabapple
Exactly. Jesus reads it.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:58 pm
by Rspaight
Yeah, it's real. I saw it in the local paper last week.

"Insurgents" -- the new "Indians."

Ryan

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:26 pm
by RDK
Sad, but that's probably the most topical Family Circus in years. :roll:

Right up there with the time Sluggo knocked up Nancy, who then had to have an abortion.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:37 pm
by Bennett Cerf
Plus there's this one from February 2003:

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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:54 pm
by Rspaight
RDK wrote:Sad, but that's probably the most topical Family Circus in years. :roll:

Right up there with the time Sluggo knocked up Nancy, who then had to have an abortion.


Did we ever find out what happened to Odie's owner? I heard he died of AIDS.

Ryan

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:47 pm
by Patrick M
Cathy got married.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:02 pm
by lukpac
She did?

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:45 pm
by Patrick M

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:53 pm
by lukpac
I don't remember the last time I read Cathy.

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:24 am
by Rob P
Rspaight wrote:Did we ever find out what happened to Odie's owner? I heard he died of AIDS.

Ryan


Are you talking about Lyman, Jon's roommate from the early 1980s? I think he moved out and moved on once he found out that Jon only had a thing for Liz. Once he departed, the strip was never the same.

I have no idea if you're right about Lyman, but he did have a great porn moustache.

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:44 am
by lukpac
Wow, that's before my time.

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:55 am
by Rspaight
Are you talking about Lyman, Jon's roommate from the early 1980s? I think he moved out and moved on once he found out that Jon only had a thing for Liz. Once he departed, the strip was never the same.

I have no idea if you're right about Lyman, but he did have a great porn moustache.


Lyman, that's it. Couldn't remember the name. One of the great mysteries of the comic pages. As you say, though, great porn moustache.

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I could never forgive him for abandoning Odie like that, just to go indulge his own perverted desires in a bathhouse somewhere.

Though the grapevine sez he was hung like a frickin' *horse*.

Ryan

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:57 am
by Rob P
Garfield, for its first few years, was a deeply weird comic strip. The ambiguous relationship between Jon and Lyman was just one of its precious delights.