by zbicyclist

Out of Warranty

Tomorrow is our 50th wedding anniversary, so indulge your editor.

I clipped this cartoon out of The New Yorker many years ago, and it hung in my home office. I recommend it as good marital advice.

From The New Yorker in December, 1975, back when a stack of back print issues of that magazine sat in the corner of our apartment. Just a bit of a CIDU.

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  3. Unknown's avatar

    Congratulations indeed!

    The second cartoon makes me think of my parents, who had an ongoing (cheerful) dispute over the color of a tweed jacket. One of them said it was grey, the other green.

    One year the nearby dry cleaner’s had a special, green items half price! So they decided to make them the arbiter. My dad took the jacket in, and the owner looked it over and said, “Green-grey, eh?” — which didn’t really help resolve the dispute!

    Looking at the third cartoon on my tiny phone screen, I thought the dress of the lady at the bottom left was some sort of sculpture and was what the man was saying was his wife. Made ZERO sense. Glad I looked at it on a bigger screen.

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  5. Unknown's avatar

    That last one probably alludes to the impression one gets from fiction that every marriage in New York is full of antipathy and needs a professional counselor.

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