Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 11, 2022

Took Mike long enough to draw the line.

Actually, it’s “No (hay) problema” – it’s feminine.

And there’s not a married man alive who’d disagree with that!

You call my wife Babe and it better be because she has a supporting role as the blue ox in our community theater production of The Life and Times of Paul Bunyan.

Trent’s mind set is definitely trapped in the 1960’s.

You knew she was a babe when you married her, Mike.

Just remember, at least for now, who signs the paycheck.

Good thing Mike is a mellow, Walden-bred hippie. Where I live, “Trent” would be beaten like a hytler pinata at a Mossad picnic.

Trent suits his name, wet and toxic! https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/07/pollution-river-trent-investigation

“Chickie-Poo?”

“No.”

“Sweet Stuff?”

“No!”

“Lover?”

“NO!”

My second wife was considerably older than I. I called her “babe”; she called me “dear”. It was a generational thing. To her being called “babe” made her think of Lauren Becall. I never, ever told her this: it always made me think of Paul Bunyan’s “Babe the Blue Ox”. Don’t get me wrong, she was a beautiful woman in her 60s, but stubborn as an ox. :)

“a-rino”. Is that from the SNL skit with the copy machine guy?

To be fair to Trent he’s agreeable to the request.

“I’ll be sure to call her ‘hot stuff’ from now on.”

Off Topic: Happy 10 year anniversary to Alex and Toggle!!

If I had a wife I would take it as a compliment that I married a “babe”.

I really dislike it when people, including mothers and teachers, say “I need you to…” . It implies, “I have the power to command you, but you will do it out of concern for my so-called needs.”