In article <1992Aug12.061013.16206@cheshire.oxy.edu> rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) writes:
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>eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) wrote:
>>      Speaking of which...  Did all of you see Bloom County (a comic in the
>>newspapers) a week ago last Sunday?
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>A couple of years ago, something happened, something so horrible that
>I was never able to pick up a comic section since.
>
>Bloom County went out of circulation.
>
>Are you trying to tell me it's BACK???

Nope, Bloom County was discontinued by its author, and he started "Outland",
a once-a-week comic strip found in the Sunday paper which is based on many
of the same characters as Bloom County was based on.  The Bill Gates parody
(quite funny, actually) was an Outland strip.

-je


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