Death came up after she asked him how he’d cope. So she wasn’t wrong. He just twisted it.
Maybe part of the joke is that he won’t let it go until he dies, an answer she didn’t expect.
There’s a term, “founders syndrome” that this makes me think of. I’ve seen it in two specific incidents in which the founder steps back (like retirement or whatever), but somehow they think they’re still in charge.
Depends on your assumption(s). Is this a person who built a business so that they could one day enjoy the proceeds? Then there is a plan to pass off control and management to somebody else. Is this a person who runs the business because they don’t know how or want to do anything else? Then the old man’ll be running the business until he keels over in the street one day.
Sounds like trophy wife got screwed in the prenup.
Cynthia assumes that Barney one day will retire, that he will give up control of Pillsbury when he does so, and that she will becomes CEO of Pillsbury, all while Barney is still alive. The witness is assuming facts not in evidence.
“Is this a person who runs the business because they don’t know how or want to do anything else?”
Absolutely. Except this past Sunday . . .
The best part of the (first) strip is the way he quotes Gollum in the fourth panel.
It’s the only line I know from whatever movie that was from (I think that scene is on YouTube), so I ‘got’ the joke and it certainly made the entire strip go to the next level – LOL instead of C[huckle]OL for me.
@ Andréa – You may have heard Andy Serkis say it in a movie, but it’s just as effective (if not more so) in Tolkien’s books.
Mr. Grumpy, I have neither a multi-billion dollar company nor a trophy wife (which might be related), but do trophy wives generally take over the company? Seems to me this could be bad for business.
I imagine she’ll inherit more than enough money to keep her in hair dye for life.
“do trophy wives generally take over the company? ”
Only in the REX MORGAN, M.D. strip, where the industrialist’s attractive younger wife (maybe not to “Trophy Wife” extent, though), a former nannie, first took over running the multinational corporation behind him as a figurehead when he slipped into dementia. After he died, she apparently decided to let the Board or whoever take over the actual running, as long as they sent her checks regularly.
Of course, running multimillion-dollar industries is actually pretty easy; Rocky Ledge over in JUDGE PARKER manages it in his spare time from his main gig of being a famous country and western singer.
I think sometimes younger spouses do take over. Sometimes children do, but that’s not necessarily good for business either.
@ Brian in StL – “Sometimes children do [take over], but that’s not necessarily good for business either.”
As a pair of parallel posts about the “Wizard of Id” demonstrate, it’s also not necessarily good for comic strips. At least in the case of “Barney & Clyde”, the son was a co-creator right from the start.
“do trophy wives generally take over the company? ”
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Death came up after she asked him how he’d cope. So she wasn’t wrong. He just twisted it.
Maybe part of the joke is that he won’t let it go until he dies, an answer she didn’t expect.
There’s a term, “founders syndrome” that this makes me think of. I’ve seen it in two specific incidents in which the founder steps back (like retirement or whatever), but somehow they think they’re still in charge.
Depends on your assumption(s). Is this a person who built a business so that they could one day enjoy the proceeds? Then there is a plan to pass off control and management to somebody else. Is this a person who runs the business because they don’t know how or want to do anything else? Then the old man’ll be running the business until he keels over in the street one day.
Sounds like trophy wife got screwed in the prenup.
Cynthia assumes that Barney one day will retire, that he will give up control of Pillsbury when he does so, and that she will becomes CEO of Pillsbury, all while Barney is still alive. The witness is assuming facts not in evidence.
“Is this a person who runs the business because they don’t know how or want to do anything else?”
Absolutely. Except this past Sunday . . .
The best part of the (first) strip is the way he quotes Gollum in the fourth panel.
It’s the only line I know from whatever movie that was from (I think that scene is on YouTube), so I ‘got’ the joke and it certainly made the entire strip go to the next level – LOL instead of C[huckle]OL for me.
@ Andréa – You may have heard Andy Serkis say it in a movie, but it’s just as effective (if not more so) in Tolkien’s books.
Mr. Grumpy, I have neither a multi-billion dollar company nor a trophy wife (which might be related), but do trophy wives generally take over the company? Seems to me this could be bad for business.
I imagine she’ll inherit more than enough money to keep her in hair dye for life.
“do trophy wives generally take over the company? ”
Only in the REX MORGAN, M.D. strip, where the industrialist’s attractive younger wife (maybe not to “Trophy Wife” extent, though), a former nannie, first took over running the multinational corporation behind him as a figurehead when he slipped into dementia. After he died, she apparently decided to let the Board or whoever take over the actual running, as long as they sent her checks regularly.
Of course, running multimillion-dollar industries is actually pretty easy; Rocky Ledge over in JUDGE PARKER manages it in his spare time from his main gig of being a famous country and western singer.
I think sometimes younger spouses do take over. Sometimes children do, but that’s not necessarily good for business either.
@ Brian in StL – “Sometimes children do [take over], but that’s not necessarily good for business either.”
As a pair of parallel posts about the “Wizard of Id” demonstrate, it’s also not necessarily good for comic strips. At least in the case of “Barney & Clyde”, the son was a co-creator right from the start.
“do trophy wives generally take over the company? ”
Depends on the pre-nup.