Honk if you hate Mary Worth!!

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:15 pm

Is Mary Worth still published?

I always liked Gasoline Alley and Steve Roper.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:21 pm

I also liked "Chris Welkin, Planeteer".

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:47 pm

Never cared much for "Terry and the Pirates" or "Apartment 3G".

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:16 pm

I've never read the Mary Worth strip. I suspect that it has a cult following like some of the other worthless things on the comics page. I suspect that there are some folks who hate Dagwood and Blondie... but I never miss reading it. That Blondie... she's some dish. And... she hasn't changed in forty years!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:55 pm

Non Sequitur isn't the The Far Side, but I still enjoy it, too!

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:33 pm

Snuffy Smith !!!

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:00 am

Something I've wondered about for many years: when you get right down to it, just how much (if anything) is Mary Worth?

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:52 am

Blondie has been around since 1930. The original story was that industrialist Dagwood Bumstead married a "floozie" by the name of Blondie Boopadoop (she actually predated Betty Boop). Because Blondie was a poor girl, the Bumstead family disowned Dagwood and he was left to find a job. He finds a job with the J.C. Dithers Construction Company. Always threatened with losing his job, he has a secure place with the company.

Blondie and Dagwood have two children, Alexander (originally Baby Dumpling) and Cookie. They also have a dog named Daisy. Dagwood is one of the few comic strip characters with a sandwich named after him. The ingredients have been mentioned in some of the strips and are prone to change at any given moment.

In 1938, Blondie became a motion picture series. The following year, it was a radio series. Both were extremely successful. Dagwood was played by Arthur Lake (b. 1905, d. 1987 ) and Blondie was played by Penny Singleton (b. 1908, d. 2003) both in movies and on radio, except for the last year of the radio show, when Blondie was played by Ann Rutherford (b.1920), when Penny Singleton left the show to star on her own radio series.

There were two Blondie TV series which didn't last more than a few weeks.

Penny Singleton was so popular as Blondie that she dyed her brunette hair blonde for the rest of her life. She is best remembered to my generation as the voice of Jane Jetson.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:59 am

One my wife likes and I have NEVER been even remotely interested in...Cathy.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:02 pm

I think I read Brenda Starr once - was attracted to the art work - but found it boring

Now if they had carried on the below story line in the paper...

TMurphy · Post by **TMurphy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:58 pm

One of my favorites these days is Pearls Before Swine. Just off the wall funny...

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:09 am

I have hated Mad Magazine since they started putting in real advertising. Some of the humor gets a little gross, too. Many of the writers I loved to read when I was growing up have all passed away (Dave Berg, Don Martin, etc.)

But there is one character in Mad who deserves his own comic strip:

MONROE!

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