pipe

A five-panel SMBC comic. A bald, bearded man excitedly tells his wife he has purchased a pipe. He explains that with his newfound sense of masculine dignity he no longer has to reply to other people—he'll just puff his pipe and make thoughtful guttural noises. In the next panels the woman raises objections ("Smoking causes cancer," "Everything we own will smell bad now") while the man, sitting in an armchair with the pipe, responds only with grunts: "Hrnrhhg" and "Ghhahrhhhh." In the final panel the woman says that if he wanted to be attractive by doing dude-stuff, he could put effort into properly grooming his beard—whereupon the man drops the silent act, points angrily, and exclaims "How dare you?" Votey: a black-and-white drawing of the pipe; the woman asks "Is that a licorice pipe?" and the man defensively replies, "And if it is?"