# Which Two Comic Strips Would You Merge

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-two-comic-strips-would-you-merge/525239>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 16, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-two-comic-strips-would-you-merge/525239 "2010-01-16T21:30:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-two-comic-strips-would-you-merge/525239/41 "2010-01-18T20:06:31Z")

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> [@BubbaDog](#):
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> The Op mentioned Cathy and Dilbert. That would be impossible. I’m sure that Dilbert’s Co-Worker Alice would bring the fists of death upon Cathy. At least 'd like to think so.

Cathy isn’t a wuss, once she cold conked her boss who was trying sexual advances on her. Of course that was way back in the 80s when sexual harassment was funny 🙂

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-two-comic-strips-would-you-merge/525239/42 "2010-01-18T20:15:32Z")

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_Crankshaft_ and _Funky Winkerbean_.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-two-comic-strips-would-you-merge/525239/43 "2010-01-18T20:40:28Z")

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> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> I would like to see _Mary Worth_ morphed in with _The Far Side_.

That pretty much describes “Zippy”.

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**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-two-comic-strips-would-you-merge/525239/44 "2010-01-18T22:46:06Z")

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[The Argyle Sweater](http://www.theargylesweater.com/) and The Far Side.

We would get a one panel strip that everyone ““gets””, every single day.  
But probably, we will get a one panel strip that no one gets, ever.

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-two-comic-strips-would-you-merge/525239/45 "2010-01-19T16:26:47Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, and a bunch of others. Then we could recycle all the old, tired gags in one place without taking up so much space on the page.🙂

Beetle Bailey is the bother of Lois of “Hi and Lois” – he even paid them a visit for a week a few years back.

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