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From: stevesu@azure.UUCP (Steve Summit)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: What I'd Like to do to Dondi
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 23:53:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 23:53:36 1983
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"...just as you chuckle over Kudzu Dubose or some other
reasonably intelligent comic strip..."

You call "Kudzu" "reasonably intelligent"???

What I'd like to do to Kudzu Dubose:

	1. Tie his spindly arms and legs behind his back,
	2. Throttle that airhead Veronica Tadsworth with him,
	3. Shove his stupid mother's whining head farther into
	   her shoulder blades, maybe with that idiotic parrot,
	4. Use several shredded bushels of the comic strips
	   featuring him to make papier mache to encapsulate
	   Doug Marlette to keep him from writing any more.

I am an avid lover of the daily comics page, eagerly devouring
each one, but Kudzu was the first one I found myself NOT reading
because it was so incredibly, unbelievably, unrelievedly AWFUL. 
Some comic strips are bad.  Some are so bad they're good.  Mutt
and Jeff (the current one; I understand the original was pretty
good) was the first strip that demonstrated to me that it was
possible to be even worse than that, but it was still interesting
to read just to see how bad it was.  (Nancy falls in the Mutt and
Jeff category.  I haven't had the pleasure of reading Dondi.)

Kudzu sets a new low.  It has absolutely no redeeming social
value.  The same tired jokes, that weren't funny the first time,
are repeated over, and over, and over again.  At least the same
ones were being used when I stopped reading it, which I have to
admit was a couple of years ago.  Maybe Doug has thought of one
or two new ones by now.
                                         Steve Summit
                                         tektronix!tekmdp!stevesu

P.S.  Thanks eversomuch for a new topic.  net.flame has been
getting entirely too serious lately.  All of this reasoned
political debate belongs in net.politics where I won't see it.
I just want some nice, irresponsible, outrageous FLAMES.
I haven't had the chance to submit one for a while.  Thanks again
for the opportunity.