Andréa sent this one for the Oy folder, but… is there anything going on here other than substituting “midwife’ for “midlife”?
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Other than the L>W swap, all I’ve got is that he thinks “delivering” a baby involves transporting it in a vehicle?
I think it’s wonderful. I love strips that have my mind jumping around among the different understandings. Thanks CaroZ! for speaking what turned out to be, to me, a brilliant CIDU noticing of extra (or any) humor!
I think that’s it, but does there need to be anything more than that?
My first thought was misunderstanding of some sort of a car being used by a guy for “attracting a babe” — but my second thought (likelier but an even further stretch, given obscurity of the word) is a pun on “couvade”
“Couvade is a term which was coined by anthropologist E.B. Tylor in 1865 to refer to certain rituals in several cultures that fathers adopt during pregnancy.” etc.
A common symptom indicating a man’s going through a “midlife crisis” is going out and buying a flashy sports car. And it’s hard to tell from the drawing, but the wife appears heavily pregnant. So I guess Hank is combining several crises into one?
We have a 1995 Corvette sitting in our driveway, and I’ve never been pregnant. Put that together as you will . . . ‘-)
So, is it something specific to “Corvette”, or would “sports car” have worked as well?
And can anyone work out a pun based on “doula”? (No, I know it’s not the same as midwife.)
Beckoningchasm has it. He’s confusing mid-life and midwife crises.
Mitch4: I don’t know exactly on the doula pun, but the first thing I thought of was fitting it into the bibbidi-bobbidi-boo lyrics of The Magic Song from Cinderella.
Picture it: Four people sitting around a card table. Beer. Smokey atmosphere. Poker chips scattered around. There is a woman (or man…take your pick) lying prone on the table in semi-surgical clothing. She says: ‘C’mon Hank. I know you can do it. Stay with me.’ Hank says: ‘That’s it! I’m all in!’
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Other than the L>W swap, all I’ve got is that he thinks “delivering” a baby involves transporting it in a vehicle?
I think it’s wonderful. I love strips that have my mind jumping around among the different understandings. Thanks CaroZ! for speaking what turned out to be, to me, a brilliant CIDU noticing of extra (or any) humor!
I think that’s it, but does there need to be anything more than that?
My first thought was misunderstanding of some sort of a car being used by a guy for “attracting a babe” — but my second thought (likelier but an even further stretch, given obscurity of the word) is a pun on “couvade”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couvade
“Couvade is a term which was coined by anthropologist E.B. Tylor in 1865 to refer to certain rituals in several cultures that fathers adopt during pregnancy.” etc.
A common symptom indicating a man’s going through a “midlife crisis” is going out and buying a flashy sports car. And it’s hard to tell from the drawing, but the wife appears heavily pregnant. So I guess Hank is combining several crises into one?
We have a 1995 Corvette sitting in our driveway, and I’ve never been pregnant. Put that together as you will . . . ‘-)
So, is it something specific to “Corvette”, or would “sports car” have worked as well?
And can anyone work out a pun based on “doula”? (No, I know it’s not the same as midwife.)
Beckoningchasm has it. He’s confusing mid-life and midwife crises.
Mitch4: I don’t know exactly on the doula pun, but the first thing I thought of was fitting it into the bibbidi-bobbidi-boo lyrics of The Magic Song from Cinderella.
Picture it: Four people sitting around a card table. Beer. Smokey atmosphere. Poker chips scattered around. There is a woman (or man…take your pick) lying prone on the table in semi-surgical clothing. She says: ‘C’mon Hank. I know you can do it. Stay with me.’ Hank says: ‘That’s it! I’m all in!’
Caption: Hank bets his bottom doula