Today is my wife’s birthday. I actually did tell her the complement I said in the cartoon. She knew I was joking and mentioned I’m a year older than her. She is a great sport. She also looks really good fo rher age, actually she just looks good regardless of her age. She has not changed in all these year with the exception of a few grey hairs, that I probably gave her. I’m sure crazy about that girl.
Sweetheart, have a wnderful birthday. And you DO look good for an old broad. 
You are actually improving with age.
complement – noun |ˈkämpləmənt|
1 a thing that completes or brings to perfection : the libretto proved a perfect complement to the music.
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compliment – noun |ˈkämpləmənt|
a polite expression of praise or admiration : she paid me an enormous compliment..
While I am sure your wife is your perfect complement, what you gave her was a compliment. Even if she didn’t take it as one.
OK, I will be totally honest. I read the cartoon and laughed so much that our older daughter came running to see what was so funny. That’s what attracted me to you in the first place – you always know how to make me laugh … and you’re easy on the eyes, too!
Thanks for the birthday giggle!
HAHAHAHA! That’s a man-compliment if I ever heard one. Good one, Barry!
and Happy Birthday to you, Cathy!! And how about those times when he makes you laugh, but not on purpose?
@qka: good catch! I’d be a terrible proofreader because my brain always fills in the correct word/spelling as I read. A bad habit that comes from interpreting my own typos.
I’ll bet it was hard gettin’ around all day with your foot still in your mouth. You have to learn how to phrase things. You can tell a woman she looks like the first breath of Spring and she will love it.
You can tell her she looks like the end of a cold hard winter and you are in trouble.
Happy Birthday to your wife.
One other thing, when did we have to start knowing the meanin’ of the words we use? I now have to go back and start proofreading everything.
Uncle Barry that sound so much like something you would say.
ever say that to meemo?
Maybe I’ll try that on my wife tonight.
Well, the Dude’s heart was in the right place.