Ah yes, "Take a Chance on Me". Breathed is a genius

There is nothing so vilely manipulative as using lyrics or quotes at an emotionally fragile moment. My ex RUINED The Princess Bride for me that way. Took ten years before I could watch that movie again.

Thanks, BB. As usual, you get it.

thanks for making me feel old. still, not quite as gray as old steve.. ;)

just askin.

Steve quotes is "SOS" by Abba-lyric for lyric..I can just hear that tune.

Thanks alot! Now I won't be able to get through the day without hearing it in my head every waking moment...damn!

It doesn't.

(Just answerin')

Poo 'ole Opus,,,

He's sitting at a table.

knowing Berkeley Breathed,

is not a Salon chief neurosurgeon.

a Opus, a would be cartoonist worries,

and wonders why B.B. can't draw good Salon cartoons

I tease. If Opus is laid off, I'll run from, and not for, a mortician position.

That song popped up in my playlist at the gym the other day.

But other than that interesting tidbit, I shall merely yawn in the general direction of this comic.

SOS

Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find

I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind

Whatever happened to our love, I wish I understood

It used to be so nice, it used to be so good

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Take A Chance On Me

If you change your mind, I'm the first in line

Honey I'm still free, Take a chance on me

If you need me, let me know, gonna be around

If you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down

If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown

Honey I'm still free, Take a chance on me

Gonna do my very best and it ain't no lie

If you put me to the test, if you let me try

Serai - "As you wish." ??

Now I can't get "Take a Chance on Me" out of my head. So if that was the goal of this strip then the commenters have surpassed the writer in this case. The funniest thing I have seen on The Office is when the sales guy sings that song to a girl with his background singers on speakerphone.

We get our political views spoon fed to us by the media and politicians. Why not get our emotions spoon fed to us by ABBA?

The writer came up with a rather negative idea probably inspired by the Governor of New York. The negative song SOS fits quite well. I wanted a positive look. Take a Chance on Me is certainly positive and has a snappy tune that sticks in people's heads. I have long felt that Take a Chance on Me would be a good theme song for the Obama campaign.

The Hillary campaign can have SOS. Bill Clinton became president because he is a clever campaigner and the first President Bush made some serious mistakes.

Right at the end of the Clinton Presidency, he made a mistake which cost Al Gore the election. Clinton's Attorney General sent a military type squad to violently seize Elian Gonzales and sent the child back to Fidel Castro. All of the Cuban-Americans in Florida voted for Bush and given the tightness of the election that was enough to torpedo Al Gore.

What should have been a relatively minor event threw the election. It also made the TV media look stupid.

Do you remember Clinton's Attorney Janet Reno? Saturday Night Live had a lot of fun with her. She always entered by smashing through a wooden panel. Her worst mistake was the carnage at Waco, Texas. She was Clinton's third choice for the position. He wanted her which was his big mistake.

Back in 2000, all the Cuban Americans in South Florida (living or dead) were going to vote for Bush anyway. Just like they voted for his father and even Bob Dole. Getting driven out of your country by a Communist dictator has a funny way of pushing people to the right.

Only a retard like Bush could lose that base, but it appears he has done an admirable job of it in the last 5 years.

She fell for that? ABBA's "SOS"? Good thing Steve didn't pull out lyrics from the Moody Blues - they wouldn't have been able to post the cartoon (well, Larry Flynt could have)!

Garry Owen, where are you?

Maybe he is with BlueAmberol at a brothel in Vegas?

BlueAmberol can sing that song and hand out cards?

I imagine Owen is getting rejected by vegan whores?

Please Owen appear. Opus is sadly weeping for you.

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The song: Oh I can't get Opus/Owen out of my mind!

And BlueAmberol hands out Opus fan memberships?

Yep. If you visit The Vegas Street Walkers, ask: Owen?

Oh. Opus is giving Owen a massage in The Vet Palace!

Is it just me, or does Steve Dallas morph into Sean Penn in the sixth panel?

By the way, would those of you(Blue Amberol, Mattwa) who want to discuss politics please do it somewhere that your comments are relevant? Not that I object to the letters per se, only to their appearing here.

Good Celery where did Garry Owen go? If anyone should know it would be you. Tell him to come back and play.

Kansas O'Flaherty is still cancelled!

(And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.)

now I have "fernando" going through my head...

"There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright Fernando - shining there for you and me, for liberty , Fernando, though we never thought that we'd forget...."

amazing how that's all still there after 30 years....

MAybe that's why I can't remember anything more important....

Are you allowed to say "horseshit" in a Sunday comic?

Actually, it does. Breathed is on the record (he states explicitly in the forward to one of his collections) that he shamelessly ripped off Trudeau's style when he first began stripping. Not that it matters.

Maybe Opus should go the way of Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent and Francisco Franco. How about it Hell man?