Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 15, 2014
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Transcript:
B.D.: Did you know it's already time for Sam to visit colleges? Boopsie: I did. B.D.: I didn't. I feel like things have sped up lately. Big milestones seem to whiz by unnoticed... I didn't miss menopause, did I? Boopsie: Don't worry, you'll know.
I’d love it if anybody wanted to take the time and trouble to list the years of the births of the younger generations of characters (Sam, Alex, Jeff, and so forth). Trudeau does what a lot of soap operas do: juggles around the character’s ages, skips years, and things like that. (That’s why on a soap opera a man can be a great-grandfather when he’s around 60!)