For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 02, 2010

You gotta love kids!

Yeah, bless little kids and their utter lack of a filter!

And who says that Elly doesn’t have a sense of humor?

…yeah, but I’m rrrrrrreading.

I must be getting old…it took me a few seconds to get it.

Probably the only chance he gets to read in peace! LOL

How to say this on a family site? Some of us older guys take a long time to go #1.

family site? oh , is it naughty to say or imply poopie and peepee?

for god’s sake, make sure the family is protected from such inferences

by the way, if we do not eliminate, we die.

LOL! I don’t have a dog, but do you really have to sit there and wait every time they stop?

Hey, Farley’s just checking his e-mail (seriously, he’s reading to see what other dogs have been there lately – it’s like the canine equivalent of a message board!)

Farley is too too cool!

Considering the nice weather John should lighten up and enjoy the snuffling.

Busted!

Where else can a guy really get some private time? LOL

We refer to it as getting their “pee” mail!!

LOVE it! Yep–sometimes the bathroom is our only place to retreat to & enjoy a few moments peace and quiet :)

I do some of my best reading in the bathroom and I like to turn on the fan to drown out all outside noise. It’s like creating your own cocoon.

Sometimes a dog just likes to get out and check on the neighborhood. I like that better than when my dog has to leave “return messages” at every house. I hate when the neighbor catches your dog peeing on her pristine landscape!

We called dad’s time in the loo his “morning constitutional”

Kids say the darnest things!!! ^__^ LOL

That’s gross!

Wouldn’t John be just a little young to be having prostate problems at this point, howtheduck? You’re forgetting that when Lynn rebooted the strip, she also sent everyone (including the readers) back in time about 25 years. That means that John would only be in his late 20s or early 30s right now, and while I suppose that men could have prostate problems at that age, it’s highly unlikely (and not even Elly would be cruel enough to laugh at such a serious issue in any event!).

And it’s pretty clear to me what John said, even though we don’t hear it. You can see him getting more and more impatient because Farley insists on taking his time poking about instead of getting right to business, so I wouldn’t have to hear his diatribe to know that he was complaining about the fact that Farley made John waste so much time by not just going and getting it over with!

LOLs!! X-D

I think it’s a little more than a “pee break” for Farley. He’s checking out the neighborhood graffiti and enjoying a nice walk. It’s his humans that have to schedule everything and keep to the clock. Geez enjoy the scenery for a change.

What makes it funny is that it’s not the sort of thing that you would expect a six-year-old boy to say. I’d have burst out laughing, too, if I were Elly!

Putting it another way, you’re reading more into the punchline than I think is warranted. There’s no word play involved here; it’s simply the fact that a six-year-old boy blurted out something that most adults wouldn’t have dared to say out loud.

howtheduck… good grief! “The strip relies on the reader filling in their own funny straight line”. Sometimes, that’s what the artist intends! If you’ve been reading comic strips for any length of time, that should be quite obvious.

But, anyway, do you not see John pointing at his watch with a look of disapproval on his face? I think, to most people, that would imply something along the lines of “That took way too much time.” Then, in turn, Michael belts out with his ‘But, daddy…” remark. Pretty cut and dry… for those of us who don’t take these strips too seriously!

DaveO – peemail – good one!

When you DON’T gotta go, you DON’T gotta go!

howtheduck…

I gotcha. And I guess I was a bit contradictory with my two points. My apologies for that.

Overall, I think the artist had a specific point/punchline in mind, but left it somewhat open so the readers could use their own imaginations. That’s what can be so great about comics, and why I was a little taken aback by your overall seriousness with this strip and the comments. I just wish many people on here would loosen up a bit and enjoy it for what it is. That’s why I rarely comment!

Farley knows that as soon as he goes, the walk will be overThat’s why he doesn’t go till he’s done with his walk

He’s just checking his peemaik