Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 12, 1988
Transcript:
Dan Quayle: In my capacity as vice president-elect, I'd like to say a few words about "bone"..."bone" was a brave whale. He was a whale who, as my grandmother might have put it, could have been anything he wanted to be. What he wanted to be was alive. Unfortunately he's dead. But we'll never forget this whale of a whale. We care not whether he was a Soviet whale or an American whale. As we look down on his carcass, we...we...uh...excuse me. Where's the deceased? Person: We ate him.
That would be the traditional Inuit memorial for a whale trapped in the ice. Let us give thanks.