#3237: Husband and Wife

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[ Megan & Cueball are talking, standing next to each other]

Megan: I still feel a little weird saying the phrase "my husband".

Megan: It makes me feel so traditional, like a Victorian gossip.

[Megan and Cueball still standing next to each other]

Cueball: Yeah, well, my plight isn’t much better.

Megan: What do you mean?

Cueball: What’s the most salient cultural reference for the phrase "my wife"?

[In the 3rd panel, Cueball has his hands raised]

Megan: Ughhhh, true.

Cueball: Even now, after two decades, when I speak of you I hear his voice, echoing through the halls of memory like a cringey ghost.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Borat came out twenty years ago this year--closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today--but it honestly feels like it's been even longer, somehow.


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