My recollection is that the “doones” part was their slang for getting high, and the “bury” part was actually a part of someone’s name. I’ll have to try and remember where I read that - perhaps “Doonesbury’s Greatest Hits.”
One of my favorite Duke moments wasn’t even hallucinatory.
“I’m a reasonable man, MacArthur. So I know this isn’t snow.”
Well, I was wrong. Hmmm. Head exploding, not so tasteful. But I don’t see how Trudeau can kill off Duke, he’s very useful and versatile.
Bleat you, Lute Skywatcher, I was going to bleat that!
Bleat! That was just bleat!
Pay it no attention, sir. It hardly ever sticks.
I believe that one of Trudeau’s roommate’s was named Pillsbury, an heir to the flour fortune.
Duke’s not dead. His exploding head was a visual metaphor for his shock over Thompson’s suicide. A different metaphor would have been more appropriate, but… that’s that.
::miniature B-52 flys by, boming Duke’s shot glasses::
Cool with me. Truth is the truth. Life’s a surefire mess, sometimes.
Nope, just a coincidence. http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/faq_ch.html
So was New Jersey congresswoman Millicent Fenwick was inspired by Lacey Davenport?
Now he gets around to denying it! Trudeau, ya bum, ya!
Actually, Fenwick was elected to Congress in 1974, which was before he took Lacey from being a background character at Yale reunions where Mark Slackmeyer bartended, to being a perennial also-ran for a California congressional seat.
But if Trudeau says the resemblance was only coincidental, he ought to know, even if he’s got the timeline backwards.
Lacey, uh, Millicent was my Congresswoman when I lived in New Jersey. I even saw her at a debate at my work held during one of her reelection campaigns. If Lacey was not based on Millicent, she moved towards her. Millicent was way cool.
They came right out and said it was a tribute today. Kind of nice to see Duke back to his old transmogrifying self.