For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 27, 2018

just for that remark, John, you’re sleeping on the sofa tonight

Yes, Elly. As it turns out, John is a neck man.

Easy to see where Michael gets his rude ’tude toward his mother and sister…

Why ask him anything? He’s always going to say something insensitive and stupid. Sofa time John.

Let me answer….awful. Either right away or in a short time. I’ve never seen a facelift that looked natural. Perhaps if you don’t notice, that’s a sign that the lift was done right.

Elle, John should be SLAPPED for that remark!

I’d say anything and I’d be trouble — BIG-TIME. This one of those questions in which every answer is flat-out wrong. Best to pretend hearing trouble or something, and didn’t hear the question.

He’s said worse things.

Ouch. Why does she stay with this guy? Oh, wait. She didn’t.

Lynn’s Notes:

I recently went to a nail spa. I rarely do this but it was a gift and I enjoyed being pampered. The young woman doing my nails had just had her lips injected with something that had made them red and swollen. I tactfully asked her about them and she said she was getting lip injections and Botox as well—to keep herself looking young. She couldn’t have been more than 20 years old! I wonder what she will look like when she is my age.

This is a laugh out loud cartoon today.

I’m about to release a firestorm, but…What is he suppose to say?>Yes? I think we know the results of that.>No? He will be accused of being a placating liar and fraud.>Ignore the question entirely as being rhetorical? The issue would be pressed with stronger emotion.>Tell her “if I wanted a youger looking wife, I would trade you in for a newer model”? Sudden death overtime!>He should put his arms around her from behind, tell her “I Love You!” and turn out the lights? Probably the most acceptable option.

Question: Where is her sense of humor. By the time two people have been married that long, she should know a stupid question before she asks it and expect a stupid answer if she does. He loves her! Unless there is an extreme act of disloyalty on her part, he will always love her.

I am now dowsing myself with gasoline…I am a firm believer in gender equality. Therefore, I do not understand Why he should have to go to the sofa if she is mad? She can go the sofa and get over it. Or are there no others that believe in gender equality unless it benefits them? A might hypocritcal, wouldn’t you say? He has to get up and go to work with his face and hands inside peoples mouths. She asked a stupid question and he answered, as she should have expected, with humor. She shouldn’t ask questions she doesn’t want answers to.

That is another version of the classic “damned if you do; damned if you don’t” question from a woman to a man: does this dress make me look fat?

Speaking as a woman, any woman who asks a stupid question like that deserves a stupid answer and she got one. That being said, John grew up as the strip went on and stopped insulting her, even in jest.

When I was asked a “gotcha” question like that my wife would finish it off with, "I suppose you want to trade me in for a newer, sleeker model. My response was, "Why would I want to trade platinum for lead? That seemed to settle things.

Sure miss her.

His is about to get wrung!

Name that tune:

Her face has fallen arches — it looks just like a sack — She would like to have it lifted — but she doesn’t have the jack!

As a former Hippie, she should be ashamed for putting so much emphasis on something as superficial as a turkey wattle hung from her lower jaw. (Sound of muffled laughing at the clash between the idealism of her youth and the vanity of her middle years.)

John, you’re not helping. And Elly, don’t ask questions you don’t really want the answer to.

John can really be a jerk at the wrong time sometimes.

John may wake up in the morning with a bucket of that “Wrinkle -Remover”they hawk on the cheap channels stuck on his head…And he will be crying “I can’t believe it – I really can’t believe it” if he can get his mouth open and remove his foot also….

Now, that’s a punch, that’s for sure.: – /

Now we know we’re Mike gets it

It’s all in how the answer is delivered. My husband would probably say something like “Why waste the money, I have a perfectly good bandsaw and a glue gun in the shop,” or something equally outlandish.

Elly would look like a giraffe with John’s face lift.