Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for August 13, 2020

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    Kiba65  about 4 years ago

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    OzarkTheHornyBuzzard  about 4 years ago

    Tyrone Power?

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    Troy Power Premium Member about 4 years ago

    My only guess here would be the old Hollyweird actor Tyrone Power, but I’m not sure when this made it’s debut

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    sandpiper  about 4 years ago

    I saw most of Tyrone Power’s movies but don’t remember one with a scene involving a ‘hussy’ and a rejected fur coat. Strip is dated 12 years after his death. Could still be a shot at something he did at some point, but can’t say.

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    Troglodyte  about 4 years ago

    Tyrone doesn’t look too happy about it…

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    ERBEN2  about 4 years ago

    What did I just miss ?

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    cdnalor  about 4 years ago

    “Tyrone” could be referencing the stereotypical black pimp as seen in the movies, but what kind of self-respecting hussy returns a mink coat?

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    joe piglet Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Tyrone Davis ?

    “Can I Change My Mind” is a 1968 single recorded by soul singer Tyrone Davis. It was his featured debut and in early 1969 replaced Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It through the Grapevine” to become the number-one song on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart, and was also a Top 5 Pop Hit, peaking at number five on the Hot 100 2 It was also an R.I.A.A. Certified Million-Seller. 3. The song is featured in the Larry Clark film Another Day in Paradise (1998).

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    Jefano Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I’ll be checking back in a few hours in hopes someone has come up with a plausible explanation!

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    tony_n_jen2003  about 4 years ago

    Might have something to do with the blaxploitation films starting to be made around 1970.

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    redback  about 4 years ago

    my guess is that 20 or 30 years from now people will be reading jokes about coronavirus while out of context and wonder what the heck is the joke about

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    ChessPirate  about 4 years ago

    My take is that the “hussy” went to the wrong place looking for her Tyrone, which is why Blanche called the Wiz that…

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    heathcliff2  about 4 years ago

    Wiz, your wife needs to eat more fish and less other. Any .. other.

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    Jefano Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Hm. I suspect cdnalor, tony_n_jen2003, and ChessPirate are on the right track, but I’d be more confident if I had any recollection of a specific Tyrone-and-mink-and-hussy storyline in any medium. Flip Wilson’s very popular TV show premiered the same day this strip originally ran; does anyone remember whether he had already established a pimp-like Tyrone character anywhere?

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    craigwestlake  about 4 years ago

    Looks like Wiz has a previously unseen power…

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    daleandkristen  about 4 years ago

    My godson is Tyrone R. Farley. Could it be………..?

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    brklnbern  about 4 years ago

    Got me on this one.

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