Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 15, 2012
Transcript:
Alex: I don't know why Leo's never asked me to marry him - it's a mystery. Maybe he just lacks the confidence. Maybe it's time I finally took the initiative and proposed. Like right now! Joanie: By text? Really? Alex: Really. It's the way of my people, Gram.
BE THIS GUY over 12 years ago
I guess, Alex didn’t take Romance 1.01 at MIT.
BE THIS GUY over 12 years ago
The closest I ever got to MIT was a Red Sox game at Fenway in ’87.
Doughfoot over 12 years ago
I’m introducing to the world the newest textspeak abbreviation: BSF. Stands for “But Seriously, Folks …” Pass it on.
YatInExile over 12 years ago
The way this is shaping up, Alex will be carrying Leo over the threshold.
StelBel over 12 years ago
Living in Western Massachusetts, I just have to say how happy I am that this strip does not reflect what the weather is here. That was our winter last year, and, thankfully, not now. It just bring back bad memories…
thirdguy over 12 years ago
My offer to drive still stands!
Coyoty Premium Member over 12 years ago
The car must be treated with Snow-X.
bagbalm over 12 years ago
It’s only in the South you are stranded if the snow covers the ground. In Michigan I have driven when I leave a flat lane behind me because it is higher than the ground clearance of the car. When it piles up in front and comes over the hood you have troubles.
Buckly34 over 12 years ago
Alex is just adhering to “Don’t Text and Drive”
William Bednar Premium Member over 12 years ago
After the Skype weeding, you can go on a virtual honeymoon! Then, after an appropriate amount of time, have a virtual baby…
lemon868 over 12 years ago
This is one continuous conversation, right? so it’s only taking a few minutes to get the last 3 strips worth of dialogs, if you were talking “real” time. I think that the snow is piling up, but slowly as it might really do.
babka Premium Member over 12 years ago
love the differing m.o/focuses of these two generations, and that they can (for now) still communicate over the not-a-gap-but-a-chasm
tigre1 over 12 years ago
The most intimate decisions made publicly and over long-distance electronics. New paradigm for choices.Still: suppose a drama-queen flibberty-gibbet WERE facing what could be…might be…death…she MIGHT think of someone she loves more than anybody…maybe she’s growing up. Consider the source and the culture…
Me…? too bad I couldn’t marry even all the great women I really admired and loved…women have so often been a full -time occupation, I don’t understand how anybody can find work as interesting…King bee. Of course i didn’t work…there were so many interesting and fine women, who could have time to work?
jimwill0803 over 12 years ago
Dat’s a fact Jack! I watched my Grandson wit his phone doing dat text thang. Dey got dey own language on dere. Some kind of hieroglyphics or sumthen. Dey use little short words and different looking faces to say hello to dey friend sitting right next to dem. Loady! Loady! I been sending dat boy to school for dat?
cdhaley over 12 years ago
Leo hasn’t asked Alex to marry because getting married isn’t something the new generation does.
Only backward-looking romantics like gay couples, or the supporters of Rick Santorum, or Alex (but not Joannie, notice) dream of becoming a “family.”
When a majority of adult society no longer believes in “family,” marriage will be nothing more than a quaint option, like observing Valentine’s Day.
tis_himself over 12 years ago
“Way of my people” LOL
jimwill0803 over 12 years ago
Some people have nothing better to do. Like reading comics on the Internet for instance. It’s free and easy to do.
kaffekup over 12 years ago
Does Alex not realize that the thing she is holding is a phone, and she could actually talk to the man she loves?Not that I’ve ever heard her say the word…
diggitt over 12 years ago
Climate change.
FriscoLou over 12 years ago
We’ve all been influenced by Uncle Remus stories, some more than others and at a convenient time too. So, how’s your Black History Month been goin’?
Hunter7 over 12 years ago
The way of her people? What tribe is Alex? North Americus Self Absorbus?
Bucinka over 12 years ago
Geek love couldn’t have waited until February 29th, I guess.