For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 04, 2019

Yeah, Lizzie, you forgot the silent E at the end of “climate.” (I think you forgot to capitalize “the” in the second sentence. Nice use of the hyphen when writing “copulation” on two lines though.)

So young and innocent! Do you want to explain to her that “climat” isn’t the only mistake she made and why, John?

Now how are you going to explain to Elizabeth about the word copulation?

She is probably right on the copulation aspect.

Emily Litella: What’s all this fuss I hear about Canada being a big country with not much copulation? It’s terrible!! Canadian people have enough problems as it is without someone saying, “You don’t copulate enough.” I know I myself occasionally have difficulty with copulation. Just because a woman’s over 40 doesn’t mean she can’t get hot! It just takes a little longer; but that doesn’t mean I want someone to criticize me for it. And what do they do to Canadians, anyway? Shout nasty things at them behind their back like “Slow Copulators!” You mark my words: If we start being mean to Canadians, they’ll start being impolite! They’ll stop making that maple syrup I like on my pancakes. Leave the Canadians alone. Let them copulate just as slowly as they want!

John Patterson: I’m sorry, Miss Litella. That’s population, not copulation. Population.

Emily Litella: What?

John Patterson: Elizabeth’s essay was about the low population in Canada, not the low copulation. Population.

Emily Litella: Oh. Well, that’s very different.

John Patterson: Yes.

Emily Litella:Never mind!

Copulation: The total number of policemen in a given area.

I never thought about it before but she really is only one letter off! LOL. But this reminds me of a story I read once, about a little girl in catechism class, one day she came home and her mother asked what she learned and she said about the immaculate contraception!

Hmmm … I wonder if there will be any kids reading this then going to their parents and saying, “I don’t get this. What does ‘copulation’ mean?” Lol

Hmm, that would explain the relatively small population.

Hmmmmm….aside from the copulation joke, she can write her name in cursive, but doesn’t know that a sentence begins with a capital letter? --not mentioning the misspelled climate, because she is already aware of that fact.

Canada sounds a lot like my house. Not much copulation here either.

Yes, yes you did Eliz.

Oh dear…there are so many mistakes in there

this is a one of the funniest comics i’ve seen in a while…

At least she did better naming identifying Canada’s geo political designation. Whew! And her spelling of climate could have been worse.

I remember my boss’ reaction when I said ‘nookie’ instead of pacifier.

Reminds me of a college group presentation in which our group was going to build a warehouse with so much stacking capacity, bays, and product movement. We ended up with a 20,000 SF whorehouse… Thank you spell check.

Moral dilemma here. Correct her or let others have a better day. Best just correct her and save that for a later day. To good to let go.

This is one I’d like to hear Lynn’s comments on.

Eh!

I had students in one of my college classes dissecting a squid and one female student kept referring to the TENTACLES as TESTICLES. I kept gently repeating the correct term, but she did not “get” how she was saying it differently. Other students were quite amused.

Okay, a little jog to another time of innocence. The film “Gigi” came out when I was about 11 or 12, and I would come home from school and go to the local neighborhood theatre for the matinee. I saw that film about 13 times, and I thought it would be SO romantic and wonderful to be Gigi. Imagine my surprise when I finally learned what “occupation” Gigi was being trained for. . .I laugh every time I think about that now. . .

And that neat printing is why I would rather have kids learn to print nicely rather than learn cursive. More important things to learn, like copulation leads to population.

Boy did she get you John! Hook, line, and STINKER!

One of my cousin’s little ones informed me that she was going to make her First Communion at the Consumption Church. Took me a second to figure out she was talking about the local Catholic church, The Church of the Assumption.

Yep. Kids do say the darndest things.

Ya gotta copulate to populate.

Penmenship rocks!

Years ago in college a girl presented a report in front of the class where she substituted the word ORGASM FOR ORGANISM in every instance on her paper. AND read it aloud. We were all dying not out laugh out loud.

Gilda Radner was a hoot!

That was hilarious, the best comic of today for sure!

She did spell climate right. In french…

Oh Sh!t that’s a corker!

Or should I say Lizard Breath?

Someone commented yesterday that it would have been funny to see a strip with a full-grown Elizabeth as a contestant on Jeopardy who gets it wrong and loses everything because she was sleeping in class and never learned anything. Ironic that that was same day James Holzhauer ended his famous winning streak.

Blaming the States? That of course means Michigan. I blame them, too.

Must be some copulation, considering “Patient Zero”, the first human being with AIDS, was a homosexual from Canada.

hahaha! I remember this the first time around – in an old fashioned newspaper! I cut this strip out and put it up in the lunch room.

I remember that one…This leads to the story about Elizabeth’s eyesight needing to be checked.

There’s a blobby marine creature known as a “Tunicate.” Our Biology lab had two of them on display for the marine biology class. I announced that because there were two, they must be a fornicate…

Hahaha!

I literally LOLed. LOL

The copulation on Vancouver Island was very nice this morning.

Michael seems to have a hand in helping his sister with her homework.

Lynn’s Comments:

I signed the 20-year contract. For Better or For Worse was “made in Canada” and the content proved to be acceptable everywhere. In this strip, the idea came from my mother, who told me she had once, in grade school, mixed up the words population and copulation on a test. Yup! …Good stories deserve to be retold!

Source: fborfw.com/strip_fix

Well technically.

If this were not a comic, I’d swear tRump wrote that note!