Gerry Ferraro: Once rumored to be Mondale's pick for vice president in the 1984 election; declared utterly useless by 1985.

If Bloom County Babylon is to be believed, Opus's first date was Alf Mushpie. But she was originally his second. Berke seems to have changed his mind and the first girl was cut out of canon entirely; in a later '85 strip Mushpie is referred to as his "first and only date." This first girl was only seen in the papers. Who was she? Believe it or not, Cyndi Lauper. Or "Fannie Lou," a parody that was basically the same thing.

Eleven years before her video game debut, Lara Croft first appeared in Bloom County.

Two strips deleted from the Apartheid sequence.

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