Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 27 - Lunch of Terror (Part 1 of 3)

This is the twenty-seventh installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(SALEM) - Help me out here. I'm standing in the grocery line Sunday night buying food for the week, and I'm trying not to look at the scandal rags staring me in the face. What happened to the good old days when presidents shook hands with bug-eyed aliens? Where are the seven foot babies as fat as sumo wrestlers and as furry as stray dogs?

Now the only thing offered for examination are celebrity couples whom I'm supposed to recognize by their first names, but I can't because I spend so much time gazing into alternate worlds. Are they engaged? Are they breaking up? Are they on a diet? And are they expecting? That's it. Those four things. Those are the measures of what's important on Earth-Prime where I happen to have pitched my tent. Could ours be the only world so obsessed with these trivialities?

I spent most of last week browsing through dozens of Earth variations until I happened to stumble upon one similarly diseased. Your invitation is in the mail. Join me as we visit Earth OSX where we will meet the Three Paparazzi in "Lunch of Terror."

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Mona August 13, 2009 3:15 pm (Pacific time)

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race, Mona from Iceland.

wahoo news! February 3, 2007 9:36 pm (Pacific time)

Bring 'm on! We are not afraid of rubberfaces!., you breainwashed geeks!

D.E.A. satellite monitor February 3, 2007 5:46 pm (Pacific time)

wahoo! news, we're tapping your phones too! Yours being a seriously "subversive" scandal rag! This last slanderous epitaph toward the great leadership will be dealt with, employing "Robust" enthusiasm! You're familiar with "Watergate" aren't you?

wahoo! news February 3, 2007 6:58 am (Pacific time)

Flash! from another dimension. Ted and George caught in compromising pose! Recent digital downloads reveal George embracing Ted in a G.O.P. fudraiser at $1500.00 a plate, as they finished dancing to the Platters, "The Great Pretender" in an unknown Arizona spa. I mean treatment center for the recovering rich and political aspirants who got fried in their own grease.. to coin a phrase. Ms. Cheney (Dicks offspring) who also attended, was seen to decline the invitatation to waltz with Ted but acquiessed when Marc Foley, who now organizes G.O.P. bilateral affairs from this same hideout using only his cell phone, quietly whispered his endearments to Ann Coulter, who was seated nearby at the presidents table dressed in pastel razor wire from a Texas government contractor, with Condi Rice, discussing Condi's new clothing line and upcoming teaching position at U.C.- Berkley. George was heard to say as it approached ten p.m. "I only wish Kenney boy could'a made it here before the Lord took him from us.., but it was sure good timing for me!" and with that he flashed a withering grin, yawned without covering his mouth and called out "Laura! Let's head'm up an' move'm out!" This is not a figment of your imagination. More later, wahoo! out.

The Devil; February 1, 2007 8:16 pm (Pacific time)

Leo.,don't let the D.E.A.'s minions curtail your interesting parallel viewpoints.,they all work for me and sometimes just get a little carried away with their perception of power.,so I just let them go on till drop through thin ice on an pond of frozen industrial keytone solvents., and other pleasant waste..they do it to themselves!, and have the audacity to blame me! The ignanomy of it all can be crushing!, believe me!.,oh.,well, you probably shouldn't.

D.E.A sattelite monitor; February 1, 2007 4:20 am (Pacific time)

we feel it's a bit more than a coincidence Mr.Leonardo.,using the parallel universe venue and equating those .., three stooges., to vice president Dick Cheney, recently departed sec. of def. Donald Rumsfeld , and chief security propagandist Karl Rove.,and is pushing the envelope Mr. Leonardo. Further and/or future reference to say ,"the three little pigs" or even the more blatantly accurate "honky white trash".,will not be favorably looked upon, and will possibly be referred to the Justice Dept. Mr. Leonardo, we're tapping your phone line now for your own good.,and don't forget the "Robust Card",mandated by the dept. of Fear, Greed ,and Anger, Mr. Leonardo

Shaggy January 31, 2007 5:32 pm (Pacific time)

Wow, like, that really blew my mind! What a concept, the three stooges as robo-tographers with that special blink-the-eye unit. Oh Scooby, why didn't we think of that for our own show! Publish that quick!

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