#3237: Husband and Wife
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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.