Family Circus: Daddy's lettin' his whiskers grow. Why can't I let my dirt grow?

Look, Billy is not an idiot like his melon-headed siblings. He doesn't actually believe that dirt literally grows. He's just pointing out that if his father gets to be an irresponsible, disheveled slob, why shouldn't he get to be one, too? And it's a perfectly reasonable point. Thel will try to laugh it off, then get angry, then perhaps resort to some physical abuse. But she cannot win this argument, and she knows it all too well.