Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 14, 2015
February 13, 2015
February 15, 2015
Transcript:
Joanie: Rick, I'm afraid we're going to have to come up with a new date. Rick: How come? Joanie: Lacey reminded me of a conflict. Rick: What's that? Joanie: Prince Charles is getting married on the same day. Rick: So? Joanie: So I'd rather our guests weren't all in the den watching TV. Rick: I dunno. That might take some of the pressure off.
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
Just tell the guests, your marriage is probably going to be more successful than Chuck’s and Di’s.
Ravenswing over 9 years ago
Chuck and Di did want to marry each other. It wasn’t the first millionth marriage to go south, is all.
Joe Cooker Premium Member over 9 years ago
Why are Americans so concerned about the private lives of British monarchs ?. Never could figure that out.
transwarpmail-comics over 9 years ago
I’m a guy who is a total Anglophile – I love anything and everything English. That being said, I could never get the concept of royalty – a “royal” family or “royal” blood or any of that. It seems totally anachronistic like it’s a relic from the Dark Ages.
ladamson1918 over 9 years ago
I remember the Charles/Diana marriage, and one thing that really struck me at the time was that I couldn’t believe that so many people were willing to get up in the middle of the night to watch two people they didn’t know get married. Different time zone, with a six- to eight-hour difference depending on where in the US you were.So unless Rick and Joannie are planning a 3 am wedding, there’s no problem.
summerdog86 over 9 years ago
Wasn’t Camilla already married at the time Charles married Diana? And are Charles and Camilla still together? I thought they were on the outs, too?
ehtaniguchi over 9 years ago
I may be one of the few Americans who dislikes Downton Abbey because I loathe the whole British aristocracy thing. Any system that allow someone to be called “milord” just because he was lucky enough to be born to a particular family should have been sent to the ash heap of history a long time ago.
bigal666 over 9 years ago
Do you reaize that if they had named their first child Upton they could have signed their Christmas cards Up, Chuck, and Di?
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 9 years ago
A Prince Chuck reference! I always felt badly, on a personal level, for all involved in that fiasco; Chuck, Di, Camilla, William, Harry, and on and on. No one got what they wanted and the kids didn’t get the family and the love they deserved. A lose – lose.On the lighter side, since Chuck has become something of an eco-activist, when he goes on one of his eco-campaigns I refer to him as “Ground Chuck.”
Carol69 over 9 years ago
British royalty just a bunch of inbred nutters.