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Wounded Bear

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1. Not a bad comparison...

Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:58 PM

Oct 19

although I was thinking Ignatius J Reilly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces follows the misadventures of protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly, a lazy, overweight, misanthropic, self-styled scholar who lives at home with his mother. He is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living in the Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans who, in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.

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America is being run by Zaphod Beeblebrox [View all] mac56 Oct 19 OP

Not a bad comparison... Wounded Bear Oct 19 #1

He needs a pan galactic gargle blaster usonian Oct 19 #2

written in 2017... this was about Trump 1 lapfog_1 Oct 19 #3

Most importantly, Zaphod understood the job. BlueTsunami2018 Oct 19 #4

Gotta disagree with that gay texan Oct 19 #5

Yeah. Morbius Oct 20 #12

It's more like Eric Cartman Hieronymus Phact Oct 19 #6

Hope I can figure out how to post this EverHopeful Oct 20 #7

I've been saying it for years muriel_volestrangler Oct 20 #9

here, DU's software cannot post images from a URL like you used Celerity Oct 20 #10

Zaphod was entertaining unlike the Vogons (even though they wrote poetry). GoneOffShore Oct 20 #8

Easy on the Vogons now. taxi Oct 20 #11

But their poetry! GoneOffShore Oct 20 #13

Nope. Zaphod was cool. NT Happy Hoosier Oct 20 #14

That depends on the version of the HHGG muriel_volestrangler Oct 20 #15