Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 20, 1986

Transcript:

Sal: This song is boring. Cousin! I better hear an interesting chord change! You're history, chump! TV: ...Wide world of news! "I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind." So said Winston Churchill, echoing Edmund Burke's admonition that "there is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue," sentiments no doubt influenced in a similar quote from sappho of lesbos. To quote the irrepressible Francois De Salignac De la Mothe Fenelon, "No distinction so little excites envy." Mindful of this, Sir John Vanbrugh was moved to write, "Much of a muchness." "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." Said Michel De Montaigne, which is why, 400 years later, I prefer the honest mumblings of those who hurl baseballs for a living. Still, to quote Dionyrus the elder, "Let thy speech be better than slience." A harbinger perhaps, of general Van Hamilton's last-ditch exhortation at Gallipol! "Dig, dig, dig!" This is George Will, or to quote god, "I am that I am."