Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for January 08, 2022

Bye

I have an itchy buy finger too….

Addicted to shopping?

But, you HAVEN’T pushed ‘buy’ yet and the reason to do so is now very different! Time to talk it over, including WHEN/WHERE you’re going to stop!

Why many get divorced!

For lack of a drip, a renovation was lost!

Way to go Bub!

I just read those comments, where everybody seemed to be agreeing that Betty was nasty and Bub should leave her…

I couldn’t believe it!

That’s the strip where she said she did settle for ordinary once, but she “was kind of in love.”

She had a sly expression on her face… and to me, she was obviously joking!

Betty is funny.

Bub knows that… he gets her humor, and they seem to get along very well.

Yes, she can be pushy and sometimes lectures him… real people do that.

But he tends to ignore it, and she’s OK with that.

She rolls her eyes at his foibles, too.

The comics, and the comments, as many have noted over the years, are bad at expressing sarcasm or facetiousness.

If you listened to the way many couples tease each other, you might realise that it would look horrible in print, but in actual speech, with a twinkle in the eye, it’s funny.

Commenters do the same thing on “Pickles”, another strip where a couple teases each other.

These are comic strips… the default reaction should be to think it’s meant to be humorous.

Do you and a close friend or spouse never say horrid things, but obviously in jest?

I know I do!

It’s just hard to represent in print… but Bub knows Betty loves him.

Step away from the computer ….

Those baskets are impossible to empty.. you think you did.. but it’s like a bad dream it keeps coming back.. full again.

“Must. Control. Buy Finger… of Death!”

I think my comment from the other day was read. The leak WAS coming from the waste drain. He fixed it for less than $10. He could have done it for less than $1 if he just wrapped the pipe with duct tape.

If it was the P-trap that was leaking they didn’t need a new faucet to begin with

“Oh no! Someone’s about to say something mean about Betty – sweet Betty! This is an all out Happy Trails alert! To your stations! Repel those that think she’s an awful character!”