# Little Orphan Annie Comic

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-orphan-annie-comic/396501>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-orphan-annie-comic/396501 "2007-03-19T00:37:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**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:** [March 19, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-orphan-annie-comic/396501/1 "2007-03-19T00:37:20Z")

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Who was the Asp? He seems at least in the modern strip to be less subservient to Warbucks than Punjab.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-orphan-annie-comic/396501/2 "2007-03-19T21:45:16Z")

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A hired killer & mercenary.

No, I ain’t foolin’.

The creator of _Annie_ was a right-wing whackjob, rather more extreme than Coulter. He often portrayed arms dealer Warbucks & his crew killing what he reguarded as social undesirables.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-orphan-annie-comic/396501/3 "2007-03-20T00:43:33Z")

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[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]  
The creator of _Annie_ was a right-wing whackjob, rather more extreme than Coulter.  
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Didn’t Daddy Warbucks go into a coma during FDR’s presidency?