Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 07, 2015

That punch line has a totally different meaning now.

You’d never know it was 30 years old.

Copyright 1985, so who was he married to and how’d that work out?

Marcia has the rare gift of being able to repel everyone: gays, straights, sex maniacs, insurance salesmen and insects.

No wonder she is alone.

The secret to successful singlehood, Marcia, is not lamenting. .Don’t do it because the dating scene is seemingly stupid, but because you’ve decided to stop needing to be part of a couple for societal expectations.

Many single people think they are miserable. Then they get married and discover true misery.

in the background the hat changed

So that was Marcia that called out to me that day back in 85!

Maybe she should lower her expectations. She really doesn’t want to marry a divorced man with children, that is the bill that keeps on taking. She obviously makes some kind of money, what is wrong with setting her cap for a building super – his rent is taken care of and he is too busy to really get in trouble – that is, if she can look the other way when he “helps out” lonely wives from the building.

She’s trying too hard, that’s the fast track to fail. Unexpected is best.

Head for China, Marcia. There’s plenty of available men over there …

The guy in the background reading the paper, does his hat change from a fedora to a baseball cap?

And now it’s a government-recognized marriage! :)

I’ve known several sad cases where this was true…it did not work out well.