For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 03, 2012

Thems fightin words!

Somehow I remember these folks being more likeable the first time around. I wish I could see the “classic” versions along side the “redrawns.” Perhaps it is just me who has changed.

They were still married the first time around…

John doesn’t possess a very important life skill: finishing his stories one sentence earlier.

Never EVER compare wife’s cooking to mothers. Different style, different era

Quit while you’re ahead, John, like before you insert your foot in your mouth!

John, prepare to meet fist pie. LOL

Ooooh, so close!

How long have they been married? The ‘boy’ is a slow learner, I learned when to stop in my first three months of being married—and the first two were separated by 3,000 miles of ocean.

My X said something like this to me ONCE……….I told him I don’t look like your mother, and if he liked her cooking so much he could just go BACK to his mother……..we were married 22 years before we came to a parting of the ways over things totally unrelated to cooking.

John you dope.

But Mothers’ pies are ALWAYS better! Almost always, anyways. Why make him lie and tiptoe around things? It is what it is. Elly be grateful for the compliment you nag.

John’s last comment was totally unnecessary and anyone with half of a brain and any sense would know that. Who cares that your mother’s cooking is better (at least in your opinion)? The point is that whether it’s your wife or someone else, there’s no reason to say that someone else’s cooking is better.@massha – Elly is not a nag and she doesn’t have to be grateful for a rude comment, so stop being rude!

No more pie for John.

He must love the taste of his foot in his mouth!!!

Don’t ever put a qualifier or comparison on a compliment, any compliment, to anyone, for any reason. (“That was a great job on that root canal John, but Ted could have done it better.”).

I commented once on my wifes cooking, that it was not like my mothers. When I noticed her brows contracting I managed to think real fast and added: This is much better!Reminds of a price list at an inn:Stew like your mother made it: 12 euros. Like she intended it to be: 15 euros.

Considering she made it out of an old Jack O’ Lantern instead of a good pie pumpkinj, she did a pretty good job.

Even my wife will agree with me about my mother’s sour apple pie, or grandma’s lemon meringue. Sorry ladies, but store bought pie crust and pudding filling just isn’t the same.

Who eats pumpkin pie hot? Wouldn’t it be all runny?

Ted did not end his marriage due to comparisons between his wife and mother’s cooking. It ended because he was a slave to his libido!

Will a full-grown Michael say to Deanna “your cooking is not as good as my mom’s”? It could be, but as for Elizabeth, Anthony seems too much of a gentleman to make such comparisons with her.

No pumpkin pie for me! Anyway I’d be happy if my honey told me something tasted as good as his grandmother’s. He adored her. She used to make a jello mold that I still can’t get right.

farley guess who’s comming to dinner

When I was in Israel I asked a Moroccan Jew why Moroccan Jewish men married only Moroccan women and he answered, “Because they like their mothers’ cooking.”

John should learn to put brain in gear before engaging mouth.

Way to go, John. If you’re lucky she’ll be speaking to you again by Thanksgiving. But you are pretty tactless.

Isn’t pumpkin pie suppose to be served cold? It just sounds gross to eat it warm

When my mother accidentally burned the bottom of the split pea soup she was making, my dad said “Ah, now that’s like my mother’s!” And it was a compliment…

Wives like to be the center of attention when it comes to their husbands, meaning that they like to be first in there husbands minds. Unless you have a very healthy relationship with your in-laws, this is an insult. Ever heard of ’mommy’s boy… need to cut the apron strings..’ That’s not just sayings, it has a reason they are said. The bond between a boy and his momma is strong. As wives we would like that bond be as strong with us. The problem is that most guys don’t get it, and the mommas don’t inform their boys of this. I’m hoping to be the mom that does inform her son on this matter.

One thing my wife never had to worry about was me saying “that’s almost as good as my mother used to make.”

My mother’s cooking was to die for, because my mother couldn’t cook to save her life.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

I can still crack me up, sometimes.

While I’ve often been hard on myself over the last 23 years (and counting) for not being able to cook/bake something as well as my mother-in-law did, my husband has ALWAYS had the good sense to disagree with such comments. Not only that, there have even been times when he has said that something I made was even better than what his mother use to make . . . in particular my homemade pancakes! Men should take note: compliments like that can go a long way when it comes to a happy marriage! After all, “a happy wife is a happy life” as the saying goes!!!!! ;-)

yep. lynn had issues with the mr.

My favorite hot pie was mincemeat! Great with vanilla ice cream! My mom could not cook anything well; I will be cooking Christmas feast with my daughter at her house. I will just assist with whatever she likes, but may also prebake some of my amaretti before I make the trip.

I’m lucky, my mother in law is a lousy cook, so my cooking has always been better than my hubby’s momma’sBaking is another matter She’s good at rye bread and pies. I don’t do either of those, so there are no comparisons.

Let’s see, he’s at work, a patient says “That was painless and quick, you’re SUCH a good dentist, It’s amazing, you’re ALMOST as good as your rival!”

My husband’s mother was a good cook, but then again so am I. We just never cooked the same things so no comparison could be made.