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1. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   Anyone have any idea who Fast Sammy or the Coopmeister are supposed to be? Kenny Boy was W’s nickname for Enron’s Ken Lay (which I remember well), but the Google Machine isn’t helping with the other ones. I assume they are real nicknames, because the anonymous aide on the other end of the line recognizes then and only stumbles on W’s nickname for the fictional Jim Andrews.

2. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   This strip is a name check of Doonesbury’s syndicate and the syndicate founder. From Wikipedia: "Universal Press Syndicate was founded by John McMeel and Jim Andrews in 1970, two graduates of the University of Notre Dame. Their early syndication success came as a result of Andrews reading the Yale Daily News. While clipping a column by a priest, he was distracted by Garry Trudeau’s Bull Tales comic strip on the facing page. When Trudeau’s Doonesbury debuted as a daily strip in two dozen newspapers on October 26, 1970, it was the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate, and a Sunday strip was launched March 21, 1971. "

3. 5 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   It would have been much easier to pick up on the joke if rabbit had been spelled wabbit….

4. 7 months ago on Red and Rover

   “Houston, we have a problem.”