Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 05, 2023

He was going to tell you after you paid for the ceremony.

You wanted privacy

MacArthur moved from Samoa to Bora Bora.

Easy fix. Have the ceremony at night and let someone smoke at the sewage access point… Mood lighting.

Don’t forget the out-of-control fires.

[nerd alert] The manager, Macarthur, was Uncle Duke’s aide-de-camp/stooge when Duke was Ambassador to American Samoa under President Ford. The real Hunter Thompson had made some reference to the idea and Gary ran with it.

But I thought they’d flown to Pago Pago in 1999, not the UK in 2023?

In all seriousness, many of the beaches in the South Pacific are strewn with garbage and other crap that washes up. A Marine visited Tarawa to study the battlefield and the invasion beaches were literally covered with bottles, nets, plastic toys, garbage bags, etc, etc.

Other islands are the same way:

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That’s Mac Arthur? He looks like T onto!!

And let us meet the minister performing the ceremony—-Mr.Herbert Khaury

Reminds me of a pamphlet I saw for Dominican Republic. The blue waters in the photos were actually brown. Clean, but less appealing and hardly anyone went swimming

Just before you went swimming. Don’t sweat it.

Took the kids to the beach one day. Beauty of a day. Empty beach.

Had a big storm day before, more than the drains could handle, do the math.

Pacific Paradise Lost

MacArthur returns, just a tad heavier than when he was Gov Duke’s factotum

Raw sewage: Evidence of human contamination that some people deny is a problem as long as they can make money.

raw sewage is very apt.

this has been a problem in Hawaii for quite some time, as i was advised at the MAC airfield to avoid the beaches (1970s) and read an online blurb about why you don’t see locals at certain beaches. heh.

Usually there are warning signs in three languages.

The smell will be well concealed by the frangipani blossoms. Mostly. Just watch where you step.

The Beautiful Blue Danube hasn’t been blue for a long time