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No more tomorrows for Orphan Annie comic strip
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| 6/13/10
| Louise Daly
Posted on 06/13/2010 3:23:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: LostInBayport
Read The Ghost of the Hardy Boys by Leslie McFarlane, the Canadian author who wrote most of the first 26 books based on outlines by Edward Stratemeyer. It's a hoot.
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posted on
06/13/2010 4:17:52 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Unless the Constitution is followed, it is simply a piece of paper.)
To: freedumb2003
Garfield has run his course, too.
To: singletrack
>>and Cathy<<
I knew there was another one — I DESPISE Cathy.
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:01:13 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
To: max americana
A modern retelling would have Daddy Warbucks as the villain, a wealthy, crazed secret leader of the ultra conservative military-industrial complex that runs America, and Annie as the heroine who fights for progressive values, like freedom, wealth distribution and universal health care.
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:02:13 PM PDT
by
Hexenhammer
(sic semper tyrannis)
To: Publius
I’ve always wondered how those books came to be. I’ll hunt one down on my next shopping trip at Amazon!
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:02:21 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving.)
To: NormsRevenge
I didn't know the strip was still around. I thought it quit when Harold Gray died.
What else am I missing that's still around? Krazy Kat? Freckles and His Friends?
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:04:53 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Veyiqchu 'eleykha farah 'adummah temimah 'asher 'ein-bah mum, 'asher lo'-`alah `aleyha `ol.)
To: NormsRevenge
“You look radiant, my dear”, said Leopold “Daddy” Kriegmarks to the nubile, yet buxom, pupil-less alien girl, as he admired her skin tight space suit and long curly blond hair; yet she had become fascinated by the jumping iguanas of this far-off planet.
— Illustrated by Frank Frazetta
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:08:18 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(Two New Episodes of 'Futurama', this June 24th, on Comedy Central)
To: Sacajaweau
The song “Tomorrow” should be played loudly for the animals at Gitmo hour after hour.
To: popdonnelly
We need Daddy Warbucks running the country. };>)Actually, I have read that Daddy Warbucks was based on one of the Warburgs . . . one of those banking families that some conservatives insist are "secretly behind Communism."
Oh, and that reminds me, David Rockefeller turned 95 yesterday.
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:11:33 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Veyiqchu 'eleykha farah 'adummah temimah 'asher 'ein-bah mum, 'asher lo'-`alah `aleyha `ol.)
To: singletrack
Can I kill Moose Miller and Cathy? The Moose Miller strip is still around? Amazing!
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:15:08 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: NormsRevenge
Arf! Needs a stimulus package to keep her day job.
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posted on
06/13/2010 5:56:58 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Unlike Little Orphan Annie, Gasoline Alley is still around. Walt Wallet is 110 years old and has a lot of decedents.
Gasoline Alley characters have aged in real time.
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posted on
06/13/2010 6:30:27 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: NormsRevenge
There was a time, in America, when reading was a popular diversion from everyday life. And comics were the preferred choice for millions of people. Now, reading is passe. Subsequently, comics are no longer what they were.
While not a big fan of LOA, I mourn the passing of the great comic strips - Steve Canyon, Terry and the Pirates, Lil Abner, Smiling Jack, The Phantom, Dick Tracy to name a few. We are not the better for having lost this media.
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posted on
06/14/2010 1:22:43 AM PDT
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
To: NTHockey
While not a big fan of LOA, I mourn the passing of the great comic strips - Steve Canyon, Terry and the Pirates, Lil Abner, Smiling Jack, The Phantom, Dick Tracy to name a few. We are not the better for having lost this media.
Agreed. Though Dick Tracy is still around, technically (he is now very much a liberal). As a young man, I would have been happy to marry Winnie Winkle.
Don't forget the classic "joke" strips ... Mutt and Jeff, Peanuts (now in repeats), Bring up Father (Maggie and Jiggs), Henry.
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posted on
06/14/2010 4:51:19 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: GreenLanternCorps
I know Gasoline Alley is still around. I think it is time for Uncle Walt to join his wife Phyllis on the other side. Maybe some of the characters mentioned inthe last two posts in addition to Phyllis can be waiting for him there. Plus, perhaps the hand of “God” (Frank King).
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posted on
06/14/2010 4:55:15 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: ScottinVA
The Moose Miller strip is still around? Amazing!
Afraid so, apparently he and "Tiger" have the same following.
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posted on
06/14/2010 4:58:26 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
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