# Bloom County Retrospective: Quotes, Images, whatever hits your Penguin-meter **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844 "2016-08-24T19:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/21 "2016-08-25T02:44:38Z")
“Oop! Ack… PENGUIN LUST!” ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/22 "2016-08-25T03:11:50Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > “Did Adam and Eve have navels?” “Well you can rock me to sleep tonight” ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/23 "2016-08-25T03:22:35Z")
> [@Uniqueorn](#): > > “T’aint corn. It’s dope.” This one. I can picture it in my head right now. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/24 "2016-08-25T03:26:05Z")
Binkley: A boy and his penguin! Opus: A penguin and his boy! Mr. Binkley: Two dips and a dad. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/25 "2016-08-25T04:11:28Z")
Dandelion break ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/26 "2016-08-25T04:14:01Z")
[Ahem…GRBLB BLABT UNT MIPT SPEEB!! OOT PIFFOO BLABOO…](http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2010/03/29/) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/27 "2016-08-25T04:28:19Z")
“Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnips! Buttocks!” I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Breathed at San Diego Comic Con this year, and getting an advance copy of the new Bloom County collection (Bloom County Episode XI: A New Hope) autographed by the man himself. As a fan since the mid '80s, I was pretty stoked. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/28 "2016-08-25T07:29:41Z")
I always loved Binkley’s anxiety closet with the giant spotted snorklewacker, nuclear missiles, conservative politicians, and vengeful librarians. “Maybe we could arrange for Phyllis Schlafly to jump out and grab you sometime.” “How about Victoria Principal?” “We’re nightmares. Pipe dreams are under the bed.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/29 "2016-08-25T08:54:55Z")
“The mirthful mermaids of planet Playtex grow less mirthful by the minute, sir.” - a quote from Opus and Cutter John’s ongoing Star Trek roleplay. And who could forget Billy and the Boingers’ hit, “U Stink But I Love U.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/30 "2016-08-25T10:17:52Z")
Trump Dump. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/31 "2016-08-25T11:27:17Z")
“Half-naked exploding porpoises!” ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/32 "2016-08-25T12:42:12Z")
“Place tray on center rack. Peel back corner of foil to expose tater tots …” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/33 "2016-08-25T13:00:55Z")
Milo: “I’m on to a hot story. I’ve got the new Deathtöngue single ‘Hell’s Bells’. Rumor has it that you can hear terrible messages when you play it backwards. Let’s give it a listen…” Record played backwards: _ **"Goooooo to church… Sayyyyyy your prayers… Tithe! Tithe!"** _ Milo: “I don’t think I have a story.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/34 "2016-08-25T13:44:33Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > “Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts!” This. - - - - - ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/35 "2016-08-25T13:54:34Z")
Always be careful what you wear. 22 years ago or so, I was wandering around campus in the middle of summer for some reason when my department chair spotted me and roped me into an emergency textbook meeting. Seems some church-going types wanted to inspect our new Biology and General Science texts, and I was the only other Science teacher around. So there I sat in the meeting - flip-flops, cargo shorts and an Opus t-shirt. Not just any shirt - this was the one with Opus rocking out on tuba, wearing a rainbow fright wig, with “Sold my soul to rock & roll!” emblazoned above. It was a short meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/36 "2016-08-25T13:59:17Z")
Chicken and Trumpling soup. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/37 "2016-08-25T14:14:55Z")
“Mr Trump said I should put my money into CD’s.” - Opus, explaining why his bedroom is full of compact discs, after having received investment advice from Trump’s brain in Bill the Cat’s body. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/38 "2016-08-25T14:25:48Z")
Bill/Trump: “And imagine…in this great quality country, folks like you haven’t strung folks like me up by their intestines.” Reynelda: “…Yet.” Ronald-Ann: “Hush.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/39 "2016-08-25T14:26:19Z")
I can’t find it now, but I swear there was a thread or post around here the other day where someone was wondering why “people of color” was OK but “colored people” was racist. And I immediately thought of the strip where Steve Dallas has a similar conversation with his mother. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844/40 "2016-08-25T15:49:36Z")
“A Bolshevik halfback stepped in my head, sir.” “Are humans white meat or dark meat?” "And I suppose you think the world is flat? “Oh, no, of course not . . . it’s shaped more like a burrito.” “Sheep pimp.” “Men should pause for one moment and take another long look at the very thing that brings meaning to their meaningless lives.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloom-county-retrospective-quotes-images-whatever-hits-your-penguin-meter/763844.md?page=3)