For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 25, 2013

And the problem was what???

He apparently got his message across.

Ted knew which button to push on THAT dishwasher!

If what you really want is to be permanently alone, rudeness works.

I would be appalled if my husband was this rude to my friends. Well, I wouldn’t be with anyone like Ted anyway and Connie doesn’t really have much self respect.

Connie, Connie, Connie…your spineless character is starting to piss me off. Better to be alone than to be with someone like Ted.

I did something similar to my wife to one of her friends who has become a good friend of mine. I felt horrible, I was boorish to do it. My wife’s friends can have a hen session as long as they want now. That is why I have a man-cave.

wow… i’ll have to remember that method next time… straight and to the point ;)

Connie, don’t be so desperate for a man. This one is a bum…throw him out and so should every one else.

Ted is a first class jerk and Elly was an idiot to give in to him. I’d have given him a scowl and asked Connie if she wanted me to leave. Not Ted. He doesn’t count.

its been proven that men talk more than woman and about more boring topics.

wow that would keep me away from that house….but Connie’s her friend so she will forgive !

My mom once told me that when my dad thought it was time for guests to leave, he’d bring them their coats and say, “I’m sorry you have to go!” When I was a teenager we lived in a small house. When I had friends over to study or play too late for hs liking, he’d come down the stairs that led to his bedroom, fingering his eyelids, and would say, “I have granulated eyelids.” I believe he’d be wearing a bathrobe. That was my friends’ signal to leave. It wasn’t all that late, either. He wasn’t easy to live with in other areas, as well.

I once told a very obnoxious guest, “Mildred, I have a headache, can you please leave?”She answered in a loud voice, “I’M LEAVING IN 5 MINUTES.”Thank heaven she’s out of my life now.

If you never leave, how will we invite you back?

Tell him next Christmas.

I would have told him “I’ll either leave when I’m damn good and ready or when Connie asks me to since she’s MY friend . . . and I’m visiting HER . . . in HER house . . . at HER invitation . . . whichever one comes first, you big douchebag!” No way would I have given in to him and left just because HE wanted me to!!!

The problem is in the third panel. Elly seems to think she was getting “even” with Ted by doing exactly what he wanted. She needs to rethink her reaction.

Ted is one manly stud. He is handsome and musclebound. Connie is lucky to have him. As for u Ellie I would of laughed it off. Ted was only humoring u.

I think I remember that episode, now that you mention it. And it is so true! (At least as viewed from a Star Trek world.)