For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 29, 2024

Hey, they’ve earned a treat!

Typically, you have to run with contralateral, reciprocal movement. Right arm back, right leg forward. Left arm forward, left leg back, and vice-versa. That keeps your body’s balance and you don’t fall over. Connie and Elly, on the other hand, do the opposite of that in every single panel. They don’t need ice cream. They need someone to explain to them how to run.

There was Dave Berg cartoon in MAD Magazine showing a group of joggers all wearing ear buds to muffle the sounds of their gasping, panting, and accelerated heartbeats. Seems that ol’ Dave wasn’t a fan of exercising.

Ice Cream man might be wondering why he hears Jaws music now.

Yikes..

There are 3 places a half-mile from my house that I regularly walk to—Vons (with a Baskin-Robbins across the parking log), Rite-Aid (selling Thrifty ice cream), and my local hardware store (with a frozen yogurt shop next door). It’s a good thing I’m only walking to keep my aging joints functioning, because I’m replacing however many calories I might burn off.

Do they carry money in their workout clothes? Do those clothes even have pockets? I know that’s a common complaint about women’s clothing.

“Passing on your left”

Don’t you two have any willpower?!

This is an amazing future prediction. All this puff puffing around ice cream kind of reminds me of the new Gh0stbusters Frozen Empire movie with a cameo appearance by the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man!

Like Pavlov’s dog.

And your money is where, ladies?

The ice cream man Marathon…

Cool down time in more ways than one.

Ooga Farley!

Ooga Farley!

Ooga Farley!

Ooga Farley!

LOL!

Ah yes, nothing is more motivational than Ice Cream.

Just give us the cart! We’ll pedal home!

Now it is time to mourn the loss of O.J. Simpson

I count myself lucky that my daughter doesn’t know yet what the ice cream bell means!

Reminds me of The Wizard of Id

King hears tinkling

King: This is disgraceful. Bring the priest to me.

Priest is brought before court. King gives the priest a bag of money

Priest: Why thank you! What can we do for your generosity?

King: Get yourself a new church bell.

Priest: Indeed.

Tinkling is heard again

Priest: There is the ice cream man. May I thank you by treating you to an ice cream cone, Your Majesty?

Bought a tub of less chemicalled Orange Cream icecream recently – it tastes like children’s tylenol

Here we have Elly and Anthonyconniejohn having a conversation about pausing their run so they can treat themselves to some bad ice cream. They’re conversing in a foreign language where all the words are pronounced either “puff” or “wheeze”. I wonder if this is where the writers at Marvel Comics got their idea for Groot?

It would be both funny and a touching memory if some ancient curse caused the Pattersons to be Farley-headed for the rest of the strip.

My ding-a-ling

My ding-a-ling

Won’t you play with my ding-a-ling!

Awesome trivia!, but I miss Farley

Every time I see these two jogging I want to call the paramedics in advance…..

Pedal faster, dude—they’re catching up!

If they’re wheezing, sugary desserts are about the LAST thing they’d need, aside from a salt sandwich.