Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for December 01, 1996

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Mom: Lists? Ads? Coupons? Ideas? Charge cards? Cathy: Check! Check! Check! Check! Check! Check! Mom: Your Father? Cathy: Checked out. Mom: Look at him lying there. So innocent, so oblivious. Cathy: Not a care in the world except how much of the football game he might drown out with his snoring. Mom: Is he panicked that he hasn't started Christmas shopping yet?...No! Is he hysterical about the Christmas cards, Christmas letters and Christmas baking??...No! Cathy: Is he worrying that the pie he's eaten for four days has obliterated all hope of squashing into a New Year's eve outfit??...No! Mom: what must it be like to be a man and have that peace?? Cathy: What must it feel like to be inside that brain?? Mom/Cathy: What's going on in there? Give us a clue!! How can you live with yourself in that black hole of tranquility??!! Dad: Aack!! What's wrong?? What's happening?? Mom: Our work is done here.. Off to the mall! Cathy: It always falls on the women to awaken the holiday spirit.