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http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1979/4/15
Even the wording in the link is hard to read.
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Thanks, I used to love this strip, my local paper dropped it some years back; they were getting complaints about it being too 'Liberal'.
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Guess there is a very wide gulf between English and North American humour as I fail to see anything amusing in that comic strip.
Maybe I'm missing a point but if James? is retired why does he need to complete a term paper? Or am I mis-reading the words.
Sorry folks.
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Are you looking at right cartoon? He is discussing collecting stamps and the humor is in the last two panes where he orders a complete mint set of Monaco and then moves on to another country...how a rich person may collect/
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It's really no different than ordering mnh year sets. Lots of people "collect" like this. Hey, to each their own but there isn't much sport about it.
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Angore, yes that's the one I was looking at, did not see that as humour, more a reflection of how some folks collect.
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I also think you are missing the point when he says "a complete set of mint issues from Monaco". He has just ordered every stamp in mint condition from Monaco in one fell swoop, thus starting and completing his Monaco collection with a single phone call.
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Ha. Good one. Doonesbury, the comic that dare not speak its fame.
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"I also think you are missing the point when he says "a complete set of mint issues from Monaco". He has just ordered every stamp in mint condition from Monaco in one fell swoop, thus starting and completing his Monaco collection with a single phone call."
There's some of us in that cartoon. As an adult, I can pretty much go on eBay and "order" expensive stamps like US Number 1, the 50 cent mint Columbian or the Zeppelin covers I bought within recent memory. $100 plus or minus isn't going to change my month by much. (Though I had second thoughts and didn't buy the $300 US Number 2 I saw recently)
It's a big difference from when I was a kid and sweated and saved to buy a specific stamp. Once I could actually buy it, there was this euphoria of achievement, part of which has driven me to be successful today. I miss that euphoria!
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Not sure this is the correct place for this, but needed a laugh for the day. Wanted to post the cartoon, but the wording was not readable. So providing the link. If you are not familiar with the character, he is rich.
http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1979/4/15
Even the wording in the link is hard to read.
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Thanks, I used to love this strip, my local paper dropped it some years back; they were getting complaints about it being too 'Liberal'.
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Guess there is a very wide gulf between English and North American humour as I fail to see anything amusing in that comic strip.
Maybe I'm missing a point but if James? is retired why does he need to complete a term paper? Or am I mis-reading the words.
Sorry folks.
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Are you looking at right cartoon? He is discussing collecting stamps and the humor is in the last two panes where he orders a complete mint set of Monaco and then moves on to another country...how a rich person may collect/
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It's really no different than ordering mnh year sets. Lots of people "collect" like this. Hey, to each their own but there isn't much sport about it.
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Angore, yes that's the one I was looking at, did not see that as humour, more a reflection of how some folks collect.
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I also think you are missing the point when he says "a complete set of mint issues from Monaco". He has just ordered every stamp in mint condition from Monaco in one fell swoop, thus starting and completing his Monaco collection with a single phone call.
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Ha. Good one. Doonesbury, the comic that dare not speak its fame.
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"I also think you are missing the point when he says "a complete set of mint issues from Monaco". He has just ordered every stamp in mint condition from Monaco in one fell swoop, thus starting and completing his Monaco collection with a single phone call."
There's some of us in that cartoon. As an adult, I can pretty much go on eBay and "order" expensive stamps like US Number 1, the 50 cent mint Columbian or the Zeppelin covers I bought within recent memory. $100 plus or minus isn't going to change my month by much. (Though I had second thoughts and didn't buy the $300 US Number 2 I saw recently)
It's a big difference from when I was a kid and sweated and saved to buy a specific stamp. Once I could actually buy it, there was this euphoria of achievement, part of which has driven me to be successful today. I miss that euphoria!
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