Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 14, 2011
Transcript:
Alex: Anyway, I won't have to move now. Plus, I get her as my roomie! Toggle: Won't... won't... cramp style? Alex: No way - my grandmother is totally cool! Toggle: Oh... m-m-mine smells of scotch and absorbine jr. Alex: Well, you gotta take 'em on a case-by-case basis.
BE THIS GUY about 13 years ago
Is the scotch single malt or the cheap stuff? Oh, anymore questions about where Leo lives?
rayannina about 13 years ago
It’s Night Train; she just pours it into a Cutty Sark bottle so it’ll look classier.
thirdguy about 13 years ago
Mine just smelled old. But that was a very long time ago.
cdward about 13 years ago
Don’t remember mine smelling like anything in particular. Gingerbread men, I suppose, but that’s only because she always baked them when we were little.
RonaldDavis about 13 years ago
Wintergreen grows wild in my area. The reason it has that name is that the berries taste like Wintergreen Lifesavers.
asa4ever about 13 years ago
All mine died before I was born. In fact, when my Sisiter died, I was 56 and the oldest blood relative in my family.
phydeaux44 about 13 years ago
My Grandmother was an old-school Texas woman . . . which meant that, among other things, she dipped snuff and could out-fish any cracker in the neighborhood.
Possum Pete about 13 years ago
You know what my grandmother smelled like? Depends.
Thank you! I’ll be here all week.
Varnes about 13 years ago
Mine smelled like CC…………..
cleokaya about 13 years ago
Scotch and Absorbine Jr.; both are used for pain relief.
diggitt about 13 years ago
My grandma wore Bal a Versailles and witched water. I gave her a bottle of Yardley’s April Violets once (which I thought smelled like fresh cucumbers) and she never wore it. She drank Southern Comfort and read Emerson and the Christian Science Monitor. People are complicated.
Alabama Al about 13 years ago
Grandma staying under same roof won’t cramp style, huh? Yeah . . . right . . . we’ll see about that.
Alabama Al about 13 years ago
And both your mother and father were 100% thumbs-up about it, I suppose.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 13 years ago
My Maternal Grandmother was one of the very few people who lived in 3 centuries; born in 1899 and died in 2001. I should be so lucky. She was amazing, using my 20/20 hindsight.
TexTech about 13 years ago
MY maternal grandmother would have had a stroke to even think such a place even existed much less consider going there.
Habogee about 13 years ago
Grandpa smelled of dentures & farts. Another old Scandinavian.
Pharmakeus Ubik about 13 years ago
Alex will probably cramp Gram’s style.
cdhaley about 13 years ago
Leo worries about granny crimping Alex’s style, but the extra rent from Joanie has already eased his girlfriend’s crimped budget and bought her this train trip (as lwp first pointed out) to his trailer.Interesting that so many readers want to compare their childhood memories of their grandmother with Leo’s. Like him, they assume their grandmothers never meddled in politics.GBT is making exactly the opposite point: that Joanie is as politically active, and politically more clear-headed, than these two young lovers whose main goal in life is to make enough money to maintain a cool style detached from politics.
ursen1 about 13 years ago
My grandmother smelled like Raleigh cigarettes, and taught me how to drive. Basic rule of thumb? Anything under 60mph was slow. Most used phrase was, “don’t drive so slow”. I learned that a Rambler American could safley hit 70mph on a back twisty road.,
mikedusharme about 13 years ago
I think my maternal grandmother smelled faintly of sulpher but I kept out of her path so I’m not certain.
Kirk Sinclair about 13 years ago
@jrmerm – right, only people who support your candidates are sane. Clinching proof of a narrow mind, I think.
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
I don’t remember my grandmother having a distinctive smell, but the house smelled like chicken soup. Except near my grandfather’s chair, where it smelled like pipe tobacco.
8arkay about 13 years ago
One smelled of Absorbine Jr., the other of Ben Gay. But that was only on their bad days. Rest of the time, they smelled like ginger or cinnamon – they both liked to bake.
8arkay about 13 years ago
Forgot to say, I really like Absorbine Jr. It works on the sore muscles, and it clears your sinuses. Also works for crowd control.
pksampso about 13 years ago
One of my grandmothers taught French, German, Latin and Greek, had a smile like Voltaire and was the coldest human being I hope I ever meet. The other gram had a third grade education and made the best doughnuts I’ll ever taste. They both grew up in the 1880s!
BE THIS GUY about 13 years ago
Final comment on where leo lives. Email sent by BD to Alex to vouch for Leo states Virginia. Here is the link:
http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2009/03/26
BE THIS GUY about 13 years ago
The number 1 commodity a grandmother has is love. My maternal grandmother had it in spades. My paternal grandmother, well, she tried.
cdhaley about 13 years ago
Is there nobody posting today who’s young enough, like Alex, to have had a politically active grandmother like Joanie Caucus?At least some of our mothers must have been born after the Nineteenth Amendment.
Kirk Sinclair about 13 years ago
@jrmerm – I find your comment about lefties and righties to be just the opposite. It’’s extremely common for righties to spout talking points (second hand thought) and rarely discuss the issues, lefties generally try to stick with the data – is my experience. And you only need to visit any news site (yahoo news for example) to see righties stupidly attacking anything on the left, without any kind of argument or evidence whatsoever to back them. They’re just venting anger that they’ve been programmed to direct. I even see it among my neighbors and relatives – zombies I call them. (Do you see how I’m providing you with evidence to back my argument?):You posted a comment about a character in this strip, inferring that she must be demented in some way to want to work for Elizabeth Warren. Maybe you meant it differently, but I (and I think others on this thread) took it as a common right wing slur on anyone who chooses to work for a candidate that isn’t on the right. If I took it the wrong way, then I’m wrong, and I apologize.
RinaFarina about 13 years ago
@kirksinclair; I do indeed agree with you. My experience is that people of the right wing tend to make personal attacks, while people of the left wing are more likely to think about the issues themselves and comment on them.
BE THIS GUY about 13 years ago
The Occupiers of Wall Street are fighting FOR the cops. They are also fighting for teachers, firefighters and paramedics. If it was up to the 1%, the cops could not negotiate for salaries or benefits. They would be going out there and putting their lives on the line everyday for whatever crumbs the politicians decided to give them.
babka Premium Member about 13 years ago
heaven! the specificity! the concise! ah, kudos, GT!