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  • "Charlie was like that, innocent but with a kind of grace, and to my amazement he's been perfectly happy with this association, which just proves he's a doone."

    Garry Trudeau: 'Doonesbury quickly became a cause of trouble' Ed Pilkington 2010

  • Trudeau invented the name Doonesbury by combining doone – boarding-school slang, he says, for "a good-natured dufus, a clueless sort without any mean to them" – with the ending of the name of his friend Charlie Pillsbury.

    Garry Trudeau: 'Doonesbury quickly became a cause of trouble' Ed Pilkington 2010

  • Or that in the eastern prep-school lexicon of the time, a “doone” was something of a doofus?

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • Or that in the eastern prep-school lexicon of the time, a “doone” was something of a doofus?

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • Or that in the eastern prep-school lexicon of the time, a “doone” was something of a doofus?

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • Or that in the eastern prep-school lexicon of the time, a “doone” was something of a doofus?

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • But with Bonnie and Wendy helping me out, I came up with a pirate costume: a red polka-dotted bandana around my head, a fake mustache, a vest, Curts baggy red pantaloons a souvenir from Marrakech, a pair of black knee-high fishing boots that we found in the barnthe best we could doone of Gilbertos black big-buckled garrison belts, and as a final touch, some clip-on ring earrings.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • But with Bonnie and Wendy helping me out, I came up with a pirate costume: a red polka-dotted bandana around my head, a fake mustache, a vest, Curts baggy red pantaloons a souvenir from Marrakech, a pair of black knee-high fishing boots that we found in the barnthe best we could doone of Gilbertos black big-buckled garrison belts, and as a final touch, some clip-on ring earrings.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • But with Bonnie and Wendy helping me out, I came up with a pirate costume: a red polka-dotted bandana around my head, a fake mustache, a vest, Curts baggy red pantaloons a souvenir from Marrakech, a pair of black knee-high fishing boots that we found in the barnthe best we could doone of Gilbertos black big-buckled garrison belts, and as a final touch, some clip-on ring earrings.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

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    Beethoven deff.. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

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