# Doonesbury: I'll Bet Duke's Been Killed Off **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095 "2005-10-06T20:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/41 "2005-10-08T00:55:32Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wait a minute…Turdeau wasn’t writing Doonesbury in 1938! Exactly! Where _was_ he during the war? I’ll bet he says he was in Switzerland, but I wouldn’t trust him. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/42 "2005-10-08T02:42:29Z")
Commie Pinko Nixon Hating Son of a Bitch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/43 "2005-10-08T03:13:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Commie Pinko Nixon Hating Son of a Bitch. Those are real compliments in some circles. In fact, I’m not sure I want to spend much time around someone who wasn’t a Nixon Hating Son of a Bitch. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/44 "2005-10-08T03:50:10Z")
Ah. Humor. It is a difficult concept. 🙂 Just so there will be no misunderstanding. I hope that after Nixon died someone remembered to drive a stake through his black misshapen evil heart before they screwed the lid down on the coffin. Are we clear on that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/45 "2005-10-08T04:37:13Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > …before they screwed the lid down on the coffin. Hell, the man was so crooked that they had to screw HIM into the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/46 "2005-10-08T05:59:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I hope that after Nixon died someone remembered to drive a stake through his black misshapen evil heart before they screwed the lid down on the coffin. “his casket [should] have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles.” - Hunter S. Thompson Incidentally, anyone know why Thompson was so irritated that Trudeau based the Duke character on him? ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/47 "2005-10-08T10:12:12Z")
> [@Torgo](#): > > \ > This…is…typical. The kind of…ASS I have to put up with from you people! You come in here with your petty complaints, sticking you nose in where it doesn’t belong, well I’m trying to prognosticate a comic strip here! Let me tell you something else; this is exactly how Nazi Germany got started! > \ > > Thanks a lot Trudeau. Jerk. Shh. Don’t mention the war! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/48 "2005-10-08T15:05:32Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Ah. > Humor. > It is a difficult concept. > 🙂 > Just so there will be no misunderstanding. > I hope that after Nixon died someone remembered to drive a stake through his black misshapen evil heart before they screwed the lid down on the coffin. > > Are we clear on that? > > 🙂 I thought that by ending with a smilie I was demonstrating that my post was humor too. Can’t trust nothing on these Internets can you? :eek: :smack: :rolleyes: 😕 Thompson basically wanted complete control over the character he created as his life. Nobody else was allowed to make fun of it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/49 "2005-10-08T15:08:05Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wait a minute…Turdeau wasn’t writing Doonesbury in 1938! Correct. He was still ghosting [Henry](http://www.toonopedia.com/henry.htm). > [@](#): > > Was Canada even a country in 1938? Canada became a commonwealth in 1967. Before that, it was officially a lumberyard. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095/50 "2005-10-08T15:27:48Z")
> [@2nd Law](#): > > … > > Can one die from a [cavity search?](http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20051007/cx_db_uc/db20051007;_ylt=AtPP0lzBfGchS.aTy4pQ0lrV.i8C;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl) No, but you might wish you had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-ill-bet-dukes-been-killed-off/325095.md?page=2)