# Please explain today's doonesberry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703 "2006-10-08T12:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**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 9, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/21 "2006-10-09T12:31:37Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] :smack: Let’s pretends this question was asked in all innocence, shall we? [/QUOTE] For example, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, most Conservative etc., etc., etc. prints it way off in the business section instead of on the comics page. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/22 "2006-10-09T13:38:59Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Ask your parakeet to let you read the comic section. **SamClem** , personal insults are not permitted in this forum. There are ways to make a joke about newspapers and budgies without having the insulting undertone. You (and others in doubt) might want to check the [Forum Rules](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343601), especially noting post #3. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/23 "2006-10-09T13:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] What I don’t understand is why the full strip is not running at the Doonesbury website. [/QUOTE] It works now, at least for me. Server problems over the weekend? Anti-Columbus day hack attack? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/24 "2006-10-09T13:59:21Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] **SamClem** , personal insults are not permitted in this forum. There are ways to make a joke about newspapers and budgies without having the insulting undertone. You (and others in doubt) might want to check the [Forum Rules](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343601), especially noting post #3. [/QUOTE] An Administration taking down a Moderator. Way to go, **Dex** The New Jersey Record only printed the last six panels. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/25 "2006-10-09T14:14:31Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] The New Jersey Record only printed the last six panels. [/QUOTE] That might not be for censorship reasons. Sunday comics are typically created with one or two extra “pre-” panels that don’t contain significant info, that is, the story begins after them. This allows the newspapers with limited space to strip off that part, print the rest, and the general reading public doesn’t know about it. For all I know, the papers might pay less to run the short version. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/26 "2006-10-09T14:32:57Z")
In Atlanta Doonesbury runs on a separate page from the other comics so people who are getting their daily Mary Worth fix aren’t scandalized. While “Boondocks” ran in the Atlanta paper it was right under Doonesbury. And sometimes the Atlanta paper chooses not to run it, though I think it’s been a while since they refused to run a strip. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/27 "2006-10-09T14:34:35Z")
Some papers, because _Doonesbury_ sometimes contains controversial or adult themes, print it elsewhere in the paper. The Indianapolis Star brought it back to the comics pages, but now they run _Dilbert_ in the Business section. They ran the entire Sunday Doonesbury strip. ---
**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 9, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/28 "2006-10-09T15:23:57Z")
Read the Sandbox. Is it my imagination, or are today’s soldier reports a little more…what? media-savvy? culturally-spun? or just grandiose?..than dad’s from Vietnam or granddad’s from The Big One. Sergeant Herman is a brave soul in a battered body, but WO Fay portrays him as anything but Joe Citizen Marine, a guy just like you or me who stepped up and did the right thing. He is made a higher, more refined form of humanity, an emblem of that politically loaded word, Values. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/29 "2006-10-09T16:12:17Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] How about taking your politics elsewhere? [/QUOTE] No politics involved, amigo. I asked a serious question. I thought Dunesbury had thrashed itself to death several years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/30 "2006-10-09T16:14:12Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] Yep. The Houston Chronicle. Ask your parakeet to let you read the comic section. [/QUOTE] I don’t read the Chronicle. If we ever get a real newspaper back here in Houston, I’ll read it. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/31 "2006-10-09T16:38:38Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] No politics involved, amigo. I asked a serious question. I thought Dunesbury had thrashed itself to death several years ago. [/QUOTE] Gee, that’s funny. [This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6354874&postcount=14) suggests you’re not exactly telling the truth. ---
**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 9, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/32 "2006-10-09T16:41:58Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] No politics involved, amigo. I asked a serious question. I thought Dunesbury had thrashed itself to death several years ago. [/QUOTE] I think it’s legitimate and not a personal insult to say that a poster is lying through his teeth when a poster is obviously lying through his teeth. If not, mods, I apologize and ask for clarification on the subject of what to do when a poster is lying. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/33 "2006-10-09T16:43:56Z")
What’s this about only one panel? In the link the OP provided, I’m seeing all eight. And I’m not even seeing any link explaining why it might have originally only been one. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/34 "2006-10-09T17:16:04Z")
When I looked at it at [washingtonpost.com](http://washingtonpost.com) yesterday all I got was one panel. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/35 "2006-10-09T17:36:26Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] What’s this about only one panel? In the link the OP provided, I’m seeing all eight. And I’m not even seeing any link explaining why it might have originally only been one. [/QUOTE] Indeed. In fact I just logged in to say that there must have been a technical glitch yesterday because all the panels seem to be there today. This is of course, why I explained what I saw, just in case it changed or others saw a different view. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/36 "2006-10-10T00:00:08Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] I think it’s legitimate and not a personal insult to say that a poster is lying through his teeth when a poster is obviously lying through his teeth. If not, mods, I apologize and ask for clarification on the subject of what to do when a poster is lying. [/QUOTE] I imagine the Pit would be the recommended venue. **ArchiveGuy** ’s cite is hardly conclusive, though. Regards, Shodan PS - thanks, **Dex**. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/37 "2006-10-10T00:06:56Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] I don’t read the Chronicle. If we ever get a real newspaper back here in Houston, I’ll read it. [/QUOTE] Gee, you did two months ago. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7712128&postcount=1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7712128&postcount=1) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/38 "2006-10-10T00:27:19Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] **ArchiveGuy** ’s cite is hardly conclusive, though. [/QUOTE] Gee, he _did_ say “I thought Dunesbury had thrashed itself to death **several years ago** ”, yet in the link I provided, he was well aware that the strip was alive & active well into last year. But you’re right–I did fail to get notarized affidavits, video surveillance footage, and the requisite DNA sample, so there is quite a bit of ambiguity remaining. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703.md?page=1)