Zonker Harris ( his full name is revealed in Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy to be Edgar Zonker Harris ) is the stereotypical hippie character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury.

There is an access way in Malibu named after Zonker.

He is nominally Zonker Harris's uncle, albeit an " uncle by courtesy " only.

While Mike, Mark, Zonker, BD, and Boopsie were all now graduates, BD and Boopsie were living in Malibu, where BD was a third-string quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, and Boopsie was making a living from walk-on and cameo roles.

Zonker, still not ready for the “ real world ”, was living with Mike and JJ until he was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke ’ s “ Baby Doc College ” in Haiti.

Whenever this happens, Zonker's father becomes upset and visits Zonker, within minutes of the argument.

While at Walden Commune, Zonker spent most of his time watching TV, getting high, and swimming around in a minuscule body of water called " Walden Puddle ", which he considered to be a sacred and holy place.

In his early years in the strip, Zonker had the ability to talk to plants.

) In later stories, Zonker appeared to lose this ability, but it has sprung back up occasionally, and he has been seen conversing with a marijuana plant, and a scrawny Christmas tree in recent years.

As they live on the former Walden Commune, Zonker has been reunited with his beloved puddle.

A series of strips in late 2010 parodied this, with Zonker ( having been told of the event's renaming ) debating whether or not to personally intervene, especially in light of the major conflict on his calendar in April – the Royal Wedding of Prince William.

* The flavor of Ben & Jerry's named " Doonesberry ", both a pun and tribute to the strip, shows Zonker mixing the ice cream in place of the standard pictures of Ben & Jerry.

In the comic strip Doonesbury, the characters Mark Slackmeyer and Zonker Harris criticized the name change in French.

Despite Zonker calling him " Uncle Duke ", Duke appears to be his surname ; the back matter for the Doonesbury collection " Death of a Party Animal " refers to him as " Raoul Duke ," a throwback to the character's origins.

After reporter Rick Redfern recognized him during an interview of Duvalier, Zonker Harris bought " Légume "' s freedom using most of a recently acquired lottery fortune.

The core developers for this effort to prove the Internet was a better partner for newspapers than AOL or Prodigy, were Dave Livingston ( nicknamed " Sleepy Squirrel "), Charles Hall, James Calloway, Alfred Filler, Fraser Van Asch, " Zonker " Harris, Mike Emmett and Schlukbier.

Seth Effron became Nando's executive editor, Zonker Harris was the managing editor, Mike Emmett, who had a long career as a writer and editor with several of the U. S .' s largest dailies, was the sports editor, while Bruce Siceloff headed the NewsObserver. com staff.

* Joe ' Zonker ' Brockmeier Review: Gajim Jabber client on Linux. com, September 16, 2005

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About a quarter of the population is unemployed and about the same proportion lives on less than US $ 1. 25 a day.

Between 2008 and 2012 this process was rapidly reversed, characterized by the fact that almost a quarter of Spain's workforce is currently unemployed.

The working class is sometimes separated into those who are employed but lacking financial security, and an underclass — those who are long-term unemployed and / or homeless, especially those receiving welfare from the state.

Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, who is referred to ( and also refers to himself ) as " The Dude ".

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For example, minimum wage laws raise the cost of laborers with few skills to above the market equilibrium, resulting in people who wish to work at the going rate but cannot as wage enforced is greater than their value as workers becoming unemployed.

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