The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 28, 2024

Idiot! It’s homemaker, not haymaker.

Open mouth, insert foot (or shoe)!

Ah. That’s her pen with its pocket clip up his nose. That took me a moment.

He needs to learn to be a Mother Ducker.

Safe answer; “Partner”

Apparently it’s “Perpetrator.”

“Elderly abuser”

Compare this with today’s “Super-Fun-Pak Comix”.

“Nagger” would have generated the same result.

There are times when Spousal Deafness is a Asset, ( What was that Dear ? )

I can think of a few that aren’t printable.

I thought she’d give him a right cross and he’d go down.

You deserved that!

Some old tropes don’t die long after they should.

Domestic violence, assault, and sending one’s spouse to the emergency room is NOT AT ALL FUNNY.

WOW, people still know the word “spendthrift”?!

Partner.

to be fair, at least it was his nose and not… oh… nevermind ….

Thanks, I missed it

I can imagine why spendthrift even came to mind.

Lover. Yes, my wife is wonderful!

He’s lucky he didn’t say biter.

Let me think … in the first bubble, that “F” stands out for some reason ….

Sweetlover.

This reminds me of my long-ago journalism class when we were tested on terms which might appear on police blotters or in court. One word was “uxorcide,” which means killing a spouse, husband OR wife. A fellow student who didn’t know what it meant wrote in desperation, “the killing of an uxor.”

In his case, it did.

I typed the text as she said it and got the following.This is why I do not trust AI.…Dang. I can’t copy and paste.…It said.“Wifey” is a word that refers to a wife or a female partner in a marriage, and it ends in the letter “r”.

Housekeeper and homemaker. But those could get you a pen in the nose also. It must be a partner.

Dishwasher?