OT: Relevant Doonesbury strip from 1981

[Lenona]

(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20

You can enlarge it.

The last three panels are the most relevant this year, of course.

Example: As Paul Krugman pointed out today in the New York Times, no one
should be surprised when mass deportations result in rising prices for
ALL groceries!

And for those who think Biden was to blame for EVERYTHING bad that
happened after January of 2021, I think a certain unknown young man got
it right, at a Bill Maher appearance in July of 2022, when Maher started
criticizing Biden.

The young man shouted:

"Biden's trying to save a sinking SHIP!"

[Paul S Person]

Post by Lenona
(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20
You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

Post by Lenona
The last three panels are the most relevant this year, of course.
Example: As Paul Krugman pointed out today in the New York Times, no one
should be surprised when mass deportations result in rising prices for
ALL groceries!

What groceries? No farm workers, no ranch workers, no slaughterhouse
workers, no groceries.

Post by Lenona
And for those who think Biden was to blame for EVERYTHING bad that
happened after January of 2021, I think a certain unknown young man got
it right, at a Bill Maher appearance in July of 2022, when Maher started
criticizing Biden.
"Biden's trying to save a sinking SHIP!"

Sadly, trying and succeeding are two different things.

[Jay E. Morris]

Post by Paul S Person

Post by Lenona
(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20
You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so
with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me,
even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge.
There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

[Don]

Post by Jay E. Morris

Post by Paul S Person

Post by Lenona
(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20
You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so
with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me,
even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge.
There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

When you click the ... on the right-hand side of the panels it offers
to display this transcript:

Transcript:
B.D: To dreeam the American dream... to punt when your arms
are too weeary... Dum de dum! Bernie: There seems to be a
certain spring to your gait this morning, B.D. B.D: Yeah, I
feel good, Bernie. I don't know why. Could be the start of
the new football season, or it could be the new mood of the
country! Bernie: There's another mood afoot? B.D: Where you
been, Bernardo? Haven't you noticed? People don't feel bad
anymore. They've stopped feeling guilty. Hard to believe it
was only a year ago that Carter was harping on malaises,
limits, all that negative stuff! Bernie: You don't think
there are limits to our national resources, B.D? B.D: Hell,
no! This is the greatest can-do country in the world,
Bernie! All that emphasis on restraint and conservation was
sapping our strength! That's the Reagan genius, Bernie -
Ronnie understands that sacrifices can be depressing. That's
why he's giving us low inflation, a strong defense, big tax
cuts and a balanced budget all at the same time! No one
stuffers but the poor, and they're used to it! It's almost
like a dream, you know? Bernie: Almost exactly.

Carter was the last fiscally honest President. He was a Christian who
counseled Americans to live within their means.
Reagan practiced the "deficits don't matter" debtors' creed.
Americans had to "keep up with the Joneses."

Danke,

--
Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php
telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

[Jay E. Morris]

Post by Don

Post by Jay E. Morris

Post by Paul S Person

Post by Lenona
(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20
You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so
with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me,
even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge.
There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

When you click the ... on the right-hand side of the panels it offers
B.D: To dreeam the American dream... to punt when your arms
are too weeary... Dum de dum! Bernie: There seems to be a
certain spring to your gait this morning, B.D. B.D: Yeah, I
feel good, Bernie. I don't know why. Could be the start of
the new football season, or it could be the new mood of the
country! Bernie: There's another mood afoot? B.D: Where you
been, Bernardo? Haven't you noticed? People don't feel bad
anymore. They've stopped feeling guilty. Hard to believe it
was only a year ago that Carter was harping on malaises,
limits, all that negative stuff! Bernie: You don't think
there are limits to our national resources, B.D? B.D: Hell,
no! This is the greatest can-do country in the world,
Bernie! All that emphasis on restraint and conservation was
sapping our strength! That's the Reagan genius, Bernie -
Ronnie understands that sacrifices can be depressing. That's
why he's giving us low inflation, a strong defense, big tax
cuts and a balanced budget all at the same time! No one
stuffers but the poor, and they're used to it! It's almost
like a dream, you know? Bernie: Almost exactly.
Carter was the last fiscally honest President. He was a Christian who
counseled Americans to live within their means.
Reagan practiced the "deficits don't matter" debtors' creed.
Americans had to "keep up with the Joneses."
Danke,
--
Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php
telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

Thank you! I normally just read my comics in my email and that is not
there of course. Even when I've went to the page, although I've had a
Go Comics account for gnu knows how long, I have never clicked the ...
because I've had no need for other sharing options.

[Paul S Person]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:13:25 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"

Post by Jay E. Morris

Post by Paul S Person

Post by Lenona
(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20
You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so
with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me,
even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge.
There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

The current ones on http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/ don't have
any problem here; CTRL+ done twice (daily) or once (Sunday) is usually
quite sufficient and no fuzziness appears. (I always return it to
normal size using CTRL0).

But that depends on the image type. It is apparently a PNG file at
http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/. But the image in
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20 appears to be a GIF
file.

I have long-since forgotten any technical details I ever knew about
image files. However, I would say that the PNG appears to be something
that is drawn (and so scales well) while the GIF is a bitmap (which
doesn't scale well). But, for all I know, they are both bitmaps, and
the difference is in the HTML of the page they are embedded in.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Paul S Person
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:13:25 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"

Post by Jay E. Morris

Post by Paul S Person

Post by Lenona
(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20
You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so
with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me,
even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge.
There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

The current ones on http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/ don't have
any problem here; CTRL+ done twice (daily) or once (Sunday) is usually
quite sufficient and no fuzziness appears. (I always return it to
normal size using CTRL0).
But that depends on the image type. It is apparently a PNG file at
http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/. But the image in
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20 appears to be a GIF
file.
I have long-since forgotten any technical details I ever knew about
image files. However, I would say that the PNG appears to be something
that is drawn (and so scales well) while the GIF is a bitmap (which
doesn't scale well). But, for all I know, they are both bitmaps, and
the difference is in the HTML of the page they are embedded in.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

They are both bitmap formats. In either case you can't get more than
the scan resolution out of them. I suspect the older strips were scanned
for the early slow-speed web to make them load faster and somebody needs
to rescan them from paper. (Which would be tedious & expensive for something
nobody is paying for).

[Paul S Person]

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>

Post by Paul S Person
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:13:25 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"

Post by Jay E. Morris

Post by Paul S Person

Post by Lenona
(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips
get mentioned here!)
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20
You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so
with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me,
even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge.
There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

The current ones on http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/ don't have
any problem here; CTRL+ done twice (daily) or once (Sunday) is usually
quite sufficient and no fuzziness appears. (I always return it to
normal size using CTRL0).
But that depends on the image type. It is apparently a PNG file at
http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/. But the image in
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20 appears to be a GIF
file.
I have long-since forgotten any technical details I ever knew about
image files. However, I would say that the PNG appears to be something
that is drawn (and so scales well) while the GIF is a bitmap (which
doesn't scale well). But, for all I know, they are both bitmaps, and
the difference is in the HTML of the page they are embedded in.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

They are both bitmap formats. In either case you can't get more than
the scan resolution out of them. I suspect the older strips were scanned
for the early slow-speed web to make them load faster and somebody needs
to rescan them from paper. (Which would be tedious & expensive for something
nobody is paying for).

That works as an explanation too.