Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 01, 2024

This strip is so old, it’s from when people still paid for porn.

Uncle Stupidhead needs to add value, at least his idea of added value.

Is she going to get the bridesmaids from Kittens Cabaret?

PinHead is showing his core self now!!!!

Isn’t it long past time for JJ to wise up and dump that loser??

They just need to think of that pay-per-view money as what they would have spent for a wedding present, had they attended an in-person wedding. Which is probably a lot easier than checking their wedding registry (assuming they have one, otherwise they’d have to guess what the happy (?) couple might want or need … probably wrongly), then shopping for the item, then wrapping it, and finally mailing it or bringing it in person. I’d rather pay the $29.99, sit back in my PJs with a snack, and watch it in the comfort of my own home, where I could giggle throughout and make snarky comments. In those circumstances, it might even be worth it!

The Dude is thinking outside the boxers; any proposition has a value stream and the Cowboy Consultant’s mission is to identify and intensify it.

Forgit your tired old ethics and aesthetics — the critical part of Pay Per View is PAY. Ol’ Sh*t-fer-brains is on this case, like a mule goin’ up a ladder.

Some years ago I saw a few " brides maids " that you may not really want to see in the nude ?

They probably had a 28k modem then; too slow for nude bridesmaids

Hmmm…new marriage…I’d pay $30 to confirm that spousal support is a thing of the past…

Actually, what ages it (or makes it prescient), is the notion that all online content is free. Nowadays it’s all monetized. Sure, there’s plenty of free content, but anything “premium” or in high demand is now a subscription service.

Well, at least they don’t have to take out a second mortgage to pay for the outfits the way they do at normal weddings.

How many people do you think would pay to see Taylor Swifts wedding?

MMA and WWE are still pay per view. They could have Taylor Swift singing with nude wedding party dancers and a chair bashing wedding octagon fight all in one PPV package while you are safe at home.

Yup, back then, people wouldn’t pay for content…except porn. Once tech investors discovered “recurring revenue”, now everything is a subscription. But that may have peaked. People are tired of it all.

They would have to be unattractive so as not to steal much focus from the bride. That’s why bridesmaids’ dresses are traditionally ghastly.

My stepdaughter had been a dance major in college. She described to me the wedding of one of her fellow dancers. It involved bridesmaids in diaphanous naiad costumes crawling rhythmically to the feet of the bride. It was held in a forest, so things got itchy pretty quickly. :)

It’d definitely save money not to have special bridesmaid dresses…

Before I started using the internet, I’d read about people getting upset about internet porn and think to myself, “Well, come on, it’s just nude photos, how bad can it be?” Years after the fact, even my mother (with whom I don’t live, incidentally) had to laugh at that level of naivete. :-)

i’ll be honest.. if that was an bride/groom acceptable option for some of the weddings i’ve been too, I’d have taken it.

vastly cheaper than what it cost to go to the wedding and deal with a lot of people i either didn’t know or didn’t care to know.

As if there weren’t enough reasons for the brides doing all the planning.

Pretend you’re Betazoid.

Now it’s all pop-under ads and tracking cookies.

Uncle Deadhead is working his way up to consummating the wedding instead of a Bride & Groom dance.

How many of Mike’s friends has Kim met at this point? The mad weird goes further than J.J.

Does anybody know the original date of this re-run thread?

I like how Kim’s so entertained. She might predisposed to like J.J. until J.J. gives her a reason not to. I wonder how she feels about Zeke…

You can’t have online food. Who’s catering?Zonker and his “special brownies”?