For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 16, 2016

One has to find mirth where ever one can and punning is one way to do it.What is old is new again—-for her.

If you’ve never heard it (or said it) it’s new.

You know what? I sometimes criticize this strip for using old gags…but this is funny! It was unexpected, and used in a truly comic way. Well done, LJ!

The ‘oldie’ is not a goodie only when played on Mike. If Mike plays it on someone else, it IS a goodie.

Lizzie, gettin’ her own back! :)

don’t forget that famous Russian arguing with his wife about whether it;s raining or snowing out “Rudolph the red knows rain dear”

Natasha and Boris out for a walk on their street in Moscow when a bit of precipitation begins falling. They argue over whether it’s rain or snow.They meet a Communist Party commissar friend named Rudolph. They decide to ask him whether it’s rain or snow. He says, “Rain, definitely rain”Boris complains that Rudolph is wrong. Natasha says, “Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear”.

Obviously, Lizzie is learning from some of the wordsmiths who grace the Comment Section here with punny observations and groaners.

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Oscar Wilde once boasted that he could make a pun on any subject…Someone cried out " The Queen ! "

“Ah”, replied Wilde, “but the Queen is not a subject.”

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And again from Oscar…

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

“Those Oldies but Goodies remind me of you…”

What ever happen to Father Christmas???

Gotcha!

I believe the original phrase to be ‘Oldie but Goldie’…

I have to wonder if we are about to see the debut of “LizardBreath”?

She’s been hanging around her father too much. He tells lousy jokes, too…

Linguist

Good story but garbled. It happened right after the "We are not amused incident. The punster was Disraeli. The quote was “A sovereign is not a subject.” (A queen could be a subject to an emperor(ess).)

Panels one and three: Has Elizabeth suddenly made it through puberty from flat to full without our notice?