For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 30, 2024

I don’t have time to figure that joke out; I gotta bolt.

Gee, who knew Rhetta had such a sense of humor? BTW, will Edgar be the ring bearer?

Gordo: A common variation on Gordon at the time this strip first appeared, even though in Spanish that’s basically like calling someone “fatso”. And the idea of being that age and having your life literally revolve around a job that basically gives you little freedom to have a life outside of that job, which also was not a cause for concern in general at that time. A great example of how much different the late 20th century (which doesn’t seem all that far back to some of us) is from 2024.

I like the way Gordon says he’s not nervous in the first panel and Michael just ignores him and tells him not to worry in the second panel.

My first wedding began with a big church wedding, groom’s dinner, reception, banks of bridesmaids and groomsmen. It was over in four and a half years.

My second marriage was me, my bride, and our best friends at the time as best man and maid of honor. Still together after 51 years.

I think the strength is more in the design, than the fasteners. And God designed marriage as between one man and one woman for life. With God entwined between the 2, " A three strand rope is not easily broken."

My wife and I had a seven-minute ceremony, and we have been married thirty-two years. My Brother and his wife were married a month prior to us in a one-hour torture session that I thought would never end. Also still married. The type or length of a wedding ceremony has no bearing at all on the outcome of the marriage, just the bill to be paid at the end of the day. A married couple has to Work together to be successful and have a strong foundation of love, faith, and respect and understand that you cannot give up during the hard times. Those times are the forge that helps create the steel that builds the family that will come from them. Before everyone stars jumping on me for being preachy, I am not preaching. There are times when things just Do Not Work Out. However, I have seen within my own extended family and friends’ marriages that did not last past the first big spat. Not even a crisis, just an argument. I find this tragic because they may have very well deprived themselves of years of joy and happiness if only, they had been willing to work for those years.

And with the three of them together, the bridge is complete.

Must be Canadian humor

Who’s that guy with Gordon and Michael? (This is some toilet humor warning), but, in the first panel when the guy put his hands in his jeans pocket – his fly is wide open!

(well at least they are all a bunch of guys in the room. Who notices? Not me.) “I see nothing!” [Quote from Hogan’s Heroes]

Speaking of loose nuts, those guys are screwy!

Literally and figuratively.

Boy, sure putting a lot of responsibility on Gordo’s nuts.

Especially if the nuts have a sense of humor to handle the structural stress ;)

I like that saying. :-)

Ooga Falrey!

Booga Falrey!

Googa Falrey!

What a great quote. I need to remember it.

And sometimes, it’s the “screws”…!

Oh don’t look so sour, Gord! You actually got a good joke, at least if we grade on the steep curve set by “You can’t turn black the cans of thyme.”

If you want a quiet wedding stick around for Mike’s

Actually a good thing to say!

Okay, now that’s funny , sounds like her grandma knows a thing or two ! Probably a fan of Will Rogers ! ;-)

A few years ago a cousin of mine wanted a quiet ceremony and then that would be it. Her mother insisted on a reception and the bride allowed herself to be pushed into it, but fought tooth and nail trying to do every little thing as cheaply as possible. (And by the way, money wasn’t the problem here; my aunt and uncle were willing to pay for everything and would have had no great difficulty doing so.) She booked the venue at off-peak hours so that it was more of a luncheon than anything. A bit inconvenient for those coming from a distance, including my parents, but fair enough. She refused to have a DJ or band so my uncle called up a high school classmate who moonlights as a magician. Eh, it’s different, and my mom said he was pretty interesting.

The menu was where it got ugly. The bride didn’t want to serve any food at all, reluctantly accepted that you have to feed your guests, and chose an Indian restaurant to cater because she knew that most of the family doesn’t eat Indian food. Now I think my relatives are crazy not to, but choosing a menu specifically designed to be unappealing to your invited guests strikes me as dirty pool.

I can’t decide who was more in the wrong: the mother of the bride for twisting the bride’s arm into having a party she clearly didn’t want to, or the bride who went out of her way to make her guests uncomfortable rather than put her foot down. Either way, I’m glad I didn’t go. I can’t even remember the last time I so much as said hello to this cousin, so I just ignored the invitation. Still, I appreciate the restraint she showed, especially in contrast to my brother’s then recent ostentatious tribute to conspicuous consumption.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Enjo story, Brian is a third generation immigrant from Japan. His grandparents were in the Japan internment camps in Canada during WWII.

You have to remember that the original publication of the comic strip was 1995. So the idea that his grandmother, who probably only spoke Japanese, made a pun that only “works” in English is remote. Most likely, Brian is making up an insult for Gordon and attributing it to his grandmother.

Some kind of married couple joke?