Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 21, 2022

Daddy’s got skills.

What can you say? Daddy’s got his name on the title of a 50+ year old comic strip!

Is this gonna be a wedding or an Army revue?

And could all those people fit on Bernie’s yacht??

I’m lucky to have met my wife. And I take comfort knowing that “I beat out all those guys”

Yes but Mike has a former spouse, it trumps former boy/girl friends.

Wait, a developer with 300 friends?

Bet she’s working on Lotus 1-2-3. Anyone remember that?

Okay, in Mike’s defense, he only has one guest that matters. …his ex-wife. The mother of the child planning the wedding with the new wife to be. Let her stack her side of the isle.

Yeah, Kim’s a bit of a nerd.

Any adult who is marrying another adult and is worried about that other adult having had other relationships during that other adult’s adult life is not much of an adult.

You know. that piece of hair in my face would REALLY bug me.

300? Must be Security so Zeke doesn’t “lift” everything.

Yes, but are they 300 people that you want to see? Or attend?

I was known as a pretty good amateur photographer but when an ex-girlfriend asked me to photograph her wedding, I had to decline. I wanted her to be happy, of course. I just didn’t want to watch.

Columns? COLUMNS? She’s using a spreadsheet? This is obviously a job for a real relational database (emphasis on the relational).

So, the ex boyfriends get into fights at the reception?

No ex boyfriends at my wedding, There is a reason they were EX.

Wow, 300 friends before Facebook!

Hm. With some people sporting that record, I wouldn’t be sure that I had “beat out” the predecessors, and not just become the latest short-term petal on the ongoing daisy.

The Trick isn’t Knowing 300 people.

The Trick is knowing 300 people worth bothering to Remember.