I thought Frabnce and Belgium had an agreement: France wouldn’t brew beer as long as Belgium wouldn’t get into the restaurant business.
Blue label Chimay. 'nuff said.
Change that to “after the sabbatical”. Like many of his peers who have taken long breaks, he never returned to the old groove he used to have. Even Bill Watterson (who I enjoyed greatly) couldn’t make up his mind what he wanted to do when he came back for one last year of “Calvin and Hobbes”.
Pasteur, and it was wine, not beer. 
And French wine is cheap and good, right?
Of course, I may have been whooshed
Trudeau is not out of touch, at least not on everything. His strips about Mike’s daughter Alex have more insight into geek/programmer culture than almost anyone else in the mainstream.
>Pasteur, and it was wine, not beer. And French wine is cheap and good, right?
He did both. He did beer after France lost the Franco-Prussian war (they surrendered, of course) and he wanted to help France out in any way he could…he hit upon the oh-so-clever idea of making French beer better than its German competitor.
He failed.
Wait, color me confused for a second. I completely missed “coallition of the willing” in all this mess the last year and a half. What’s the origin of that?
“Coalition of the Wiling” is the term the Bush administration gave to the countries who provided military, financial or cheerleading support for the war.
That does bring up a point; is there a colalition of the unwilling that France leads?
Yes, but they call it the Axis-of-sort-of-evil.
But you can only have three entities in an Axis, like Germany, Japan and Italy in WW II.
Who says?
If you have to have Three then it should read…
“Germany, Japan and Hi! Opal.”
so there.
Eisenhower or FDR, I’m not sure. See your WWII history stuff.
Hell, maybe it was Churchill. Do I look like a cite?
Well, sure, called them an Axis - but did they say it had to be **three[/]? If they had found another ally in their cause, would Eisenhower, FDR, Churchill, or whoever need to give them a new name because they had exceeded the limits to be an Axis?
Certainly Doonesbury is not as consistently excellent as it was in the 1970s. But he’s still better than most of the drivel that one finds on the comics pages of daily newspapers these days. Plus, he’s still occasionally brilliant.
Take the grade-inflation series starting with this strip, for example, and continuedhere.
I think one’s opinion of Trudeau’s strip tracks very closely to one’s opinion of his politics.
You’re asking about Dead People. Get a grip.
Oh. That clears it up. Thanks.
I still find Doonesbury occasionally funny but this strip didn’t do it for me. He’d have more of a point if the French didn’t have a governmental entity solely for the purpose of “preserving the French language”- which usually means renaming english words that have become popular in France.