Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 13, 2015

“I want you to be wearing a clean pair of undies in case you get wounded.”

Hedley & Shoulders?

This is exactly why Dan Rather got sent on so many combat assignments!

That is a tough schedule, you have to admit. Santiago, Chile to the USA to Beirut all in 24 hours? Not that Roland hasn’t earned it. Every mile, every kilometer, every yard, every inch of it.

(sighs) And yet he never eats a RPG-7 round. Life isn’t just.

See that machine directly in front of the boss, kids? That ancient device is called a ‘typewriter’. Once upon a time, people used that machine to ‘type’ stories onto something called ‘paper’.-What’s paper, you say? That’s next week’s lesson. Archaeology class dismissed…

Unlike some other reporters, Roland Hedley used to actually be in the way of danger (eventually he found a way to avoid it.)

That other thing on the desk is called a TV.

Is it just me or was Roland somewhat less stupid and more sympathetic in the old days?

It’s just you.

Now daily Doonesbury reruns have jumped to 1982, the next year in 1983 Doonesbury started its first hiatus lasting until the end of September 1984.

Did you know that we also used to have phones that were used to talk other people one on one without having to poke tiny buttons and limit the messages to 250 characters?