Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 24, 2013

Little blabbermouth !

They meant it. They didn’t ever tell US.

Oops! Well, maybe chalk it up to hormonal changes? For Leo’s sake, just hope Drew keeps the news to herself till 2nd tri.

I know I’m going to catch flack for this…But a woman keeping a secret, is a bit like trying to dam Niagara Falls, isn’t it ?

I’ve never understood that…If you don’t want to know what sex the little thing is, why not wait for a year or two AFTER they’re born to find out? The suspense would build..Besides, nobody likes changing diapers anyway…It would be cool…Second birthday..Hey it’s a girl! Ha Ha!

Linguist, do you seriously believe most men keep secrets?

Or are you just doing that thing of taking a negative human behavior done by people generally and then acting as if only women (or only people of a given race or religion or whatever) do it?

pretty soon, she can’t see her feet.

Different for us. My twins — 29 Y/O yesterday — had us fooled all along. One heartbeat, one baby in the ultrasounds, even though my wife’s stomach was the size of a weather balloon.

Then a drunk driver hit our car 3 weeks before her due date. Took the wife to the hospital as a precaution, and the doctor said “Don’t worry, your babies are just fine”. Um, er, “BABIES”? Yep, one was hiding behind the other. Three weeks later (Super Bowl Sunday 1984), 2 healthy girls 46 minutes apart (natural with no epidermal).

I am surprised she kept her mouth shut that long LOL

Superstition, hell. You don’t tell people right away because there’s still a major chance of miscarriage for several weeks. Hopefully (this is still a comic strip!) GT won’t go there.

Well, I don’t think he was thinking about mathematicians when he made that statement…

Can’t tell anyone…..except for besties, of course.

That’s weird, I thought couples were always together for ultrasounds.

But she’s glowing! Somebody will notice! Plus, with twins she will balloon up before the 2nd trimester. The secret won’t be a secret for that long. Shall we throw them a baby shower? We can post what our gift to them will be.

Um…she’s a graduate student, he’s a studio producer…very young, twins….how to support? Move in with Mike and Kim?

Babies don’t cost a lot, especially if you breast feed. They will have time to get on their feet.

Night-Gaunt49, I think you misunderstood me yesterday. I was talking about the irony of the right-wing trolls calling for the twins to be aborted.

In the 50’s the fastest forms of communication were telephone, television, and tell a woman. Now we have facebook!

I’ve always been great at keeping secrets. I even had a job that required it for a while. For some reason, I never feel the urge to tell people stuff that’s none of their GD business anyway.

@DTpi;

“All generalizations are untrue, including this one” (anon)

“50% of American doctors graduated in the lower half of their class.”

“I used to think a cynic was something to do the dinner dishes in..”

and on, and on, etc, etc…

My motto has always been: Moderation in all things, including moderation.

The first rapid way to pass information was the telegraph? -Wrong! It was tell-a-woman.

Telegraph, telephone, tell-a-man!

Somebody has to find a way to support the kids. It isn’t just a matter of keeping them fed and diapered either, though that is a cost to think about. My high school daughter helps out with a charity that helps poor folks with diapers. Often, the poor can’t afford diapers very easily either, along with the cost of infant formula, which many moms have to use.

BTW, by “work” I am referring to work which pays the bills, knowing full well that being a mom is work…

The only barber in town shaves every man in town who do not shave himself. Who shaves the barber?

Telling your best friend doesn’t count.

DTpiOK, how about this: she’s a woman.

“Since both of them are human, male and “Caucasian” doesn’t mean they have anything else in common.”

What else they have in common is the practice of generalizing. I am not the one who asserted the practice.

Bruno Zeigerts asserted it: "[P]eople who generalize are all alike!”

Stephen Hawking generalizes by combining many complicated mathematical equations into a few simple ones; that’s his genius.

David Duke generalizes by asserting that all white people are superior to black / brown people and therefore should reign over them.

My question for Bruno is: In what way are Hawking and Duke “alike”. He said they were “alike”. I didn’t. Maybe his answer is: “They are human, male and ‘Caucasian’.” But that is really a non-responsive answer, since they are also both bipeds, both mammals, both have hair, both have skins, both lives, harts, lungs, etc. Both walk on the surface of the earth. Both . . . . Well, you get the picture.

The (unstated but appropriately assumed) heart of the issue is this: Most educated people know that Hawking is no “white supremacist” and Duke is no scientist. Much less is he a theoretical (or mathematical) physicist — perched atop the very pinnacle of intelligence and learning.

This the two men DO NOT SHARE. Whence then Bruno’s generalization? He could say: “They’re both endothermic”. He could say: “Neither one of them lives on planet Venus”. He could say, “They both have ten toes [so far as we know]”.

But the real answer is: They are NOT alike in the only way that really counts.

I haven’t heard anything about David Duke in years. Last I heard the Feds were trying him for embezzlement or something. Did they send him to prison?

Actually , the best indicator of how well anyone keeps a secret is by the number of words they use in a day. The less one says, the less one can reveal.

David Duke and the Tea Party in the same sentence does not surprise me in the slightest.

Cal, the faux outrage of you cons never fails to amuse me. You don’t really care how many people die, unless it’s on a Democrat’s watch. Not even a crocodile tear for the thousands dead on Bush’s watch.

I just read an article at Slate by a musician who explained how he knew Beyonce really sang that song. But theyLl surely find some new “poutrage”.

Her body — her story:) — they haven’t found a way to legislate that one yet.

No offense, sir, but what you wrote is mistaken and in no way justifies racism, white supremacism, and hatred.

Given Trudeau’s politics, it is clear she has an appointment with Planned Parenthood set for the second trimester.