This ranks up there, although not quite as egregious, as when we got rid of Doonsebury.

I still smile and shake my head when subscription salesmen ask me if I'd like to take the paper.

Bring back Doonesbury, and I'll re-subscribe.  But Frazz *ALMOST* makes up for it.

I love Sherman's Lagoon AND Get Fuzzy, Steve--so don't be touching my Get Fuzzy.  Frazz too, RF.  We couldn't have thrown out Pickles or Fred Bassett with Marvin?  :)

Me too jason~ whats that new one with the "hillbillies" in it? It could go. Leave Get Fuzzy alone,Steve. Funny how the comics can divide folks... 

As a connoisseur of comic strips in TBC since the late 30s Steve I could have cautioned about Sherman's Lagoon and many others I have seen cast aside while so many without merit have been kept. Economics and humor have a symbiotic relationship.

When the Croc's are present in "Pearls Before Swine", I usually laugh for days...please don't take them away.

Bring back Pogo!

Now you're talking saberhagen!

Any world where Snuffy Smith is chosen over Sherman's Lagoon is a sad world indeed.

Snuffy SMith and Fred Bassett could easily have been jettisoned, which would have made room for Doonesbury. You're right, Steve, it's a bone-headed decision. There's a reason we're a democratic republic: sometimes the people aren't always right.

Hey there, I like Fred Bassett! I also like Retail. Sherman's Lagoon was **ok**, but there are others that could have been eliminated instead.

Leave my Fred Bassett alone, but can I get a motion to ax Family Circus? It's so tired and so sappy. Oh, and Steve:  D-o-o-n-e-s-b-u-r-y. You never could spell, sweetie.  ;-)

You forgot that Shermans Lagoon had a local reference (even if unintended) to KRAB radio several months back.

Hey, I like Snuffy Smith!

And I love Sherman's Lagoon. If there was another paper that carried it, I would have taken that paper instead :O).

Get Fuzzy can go, in my book. It used to be great - I even own a few of the books - but lately it seems kind of obscure.

I know it's all a matter of taste and opinion, but...

Snuffy Smith and Fred Bassett were never funny, are painfully dated, haven't had an original thought or idea in ages, and have zero appeal. Retail is a good strip and Sherman's Lagoon is worth a laugh. Fred Bassett is the absolute worst comic strip in history. Worse than Mary Worth, Apartment 3-G, Steve Canyon, Beetle Bailey.....the list goes on and on. It is a terrible waste of paper and ink. I read it once every six months, and then only to see if it's improved.

Snuffy Smith dates to the ...'40s? And still looks it. I couldn't believe that was coming back. Unfortunately, Foxtrot and The Far Side have both gone by the wayside, as has Calvin and Hobbes. At least their creators knew it was good to hang it up while they were on top.

The only good moves the Californian has made in cancelling a strip was killing B.C., and that took the death of its creator to do so.

Snuffy Smith?  Sounds like a serial killer.

I liked Snuffy Smith's name for his dog -- bullet

I remember one time at Petsmart some dude trying control his outa control leashed pit bull with real long toe nails scratching along the cement, him pulling back hard on the leash as his dog was trying to get at a poodle and the dude yelling:

Boolet! Boolet! Hijo de Tu.....NO!  Booolet! Orale! No! Booolet!

Sometimes Snuffy warn't too bad...................

Politicans helped Snuffy get by for 50 years without working a day.

All of this talk about John Edwards lately made me think of Snuffy Smith's friend, Lukey a couple of days ago. He'd come home from being out all night drinking and playing cards with Snuffy, and his wife Elviney would lay an iron skillet upside his head several times, sending him staggering out of the house beat all to hell, with lumps on his head and criss-crossed eyes.

I wonder if Elizabeth Edwards has an iron skillet?

Laura,

   I got all the right letters in there. Now you want them in the right order too?

    I agree with all the Fred Bassett  is dumb commets. But I like Snuffy Smith. I put it in the Hee Haw category of so corny it is funny in an acquired taste sort of way.

Elviney reminds you of Mrs. Edwards? Hardly!

You have good taste Steve; keep Snuffy Smith. But I think we need the low key, kid friendly Fred Bassett and Family Circus.

Chico, they're both women; Elizabeth happens to have more teeth.

Both are married to "shif'less skunks."

Liz may not go the skillet route. More than likely, she'll have him kneecapped.

Good point JB

I'd still like to see her with a skillet upside his punkin though......................

Fred Bassett is too British for my taste.  The Brits are either extremely funny or extremely lame.  No in between.  Fred falls in the latter category.

There was a Fred Bassett strip about 25 years ago where the husband comes home from playing golf and gleefully announces to his wife that he broke 100. Having seen him play golf before, she's thinks he's kidding. No, really, he says, I really did! Oh, stop, says she.

"I DID, I TELL YOU!" he shouts, his face now beet red.

"Oh, go on, pull the other one!" she replies.

Fred Bassett is on repeats, anyway. Every three years they just repeat the previous 1,000 strips, and nobody notices.