For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 30, 2012

No, John, no!

sister

John, you just don’t know when to stop, do you?

Fred Willis is not all that bright. To bring the ‘other lady’ out in public and expect to not be seen. Maybe he wants to be seen for some reason.

John you are such a cad.

Ellie’s going to look like a prize doofus when she finds out who the woman really is.

Oh, they’re both bad. John wants to move closer to get a better look?? Creepy. Either be direct and go say hi, or ignore them and enjoy your own dinner.

Yes come on …don’t they have anything else to talk about or is that the problem ?

Think about it. If you had gone out to dinner in an elegant restaurant, and saw one of your friends out cheating on his wife, wouldn’t you obsess a bit about it, too? It would be nearly impossible to ignore the situation, and it would dominate the conversation.

John! What’s wrong with you?

John is pulling her chain .. and yours.

John is probably hinting to Elly that she ought mind her own business; in doing so he is pushing her buttons about the possible adultery. In the previous strip John was more serious, suggesting to Elly there could be reasonable doubt; for example he is out with a woman for a social event and nothing more than that. However in both strips John seems to be telling Elly to stop being nosy without actually giving a direct order.

An ag class from Adams County once went to Chicago, and took a picture of the group in one of the downtown restaurants.Someone later noticed in the background someone from back home with -——

There was a cartoon once – waiter says to lady: “Maam – didn’t you notice that your husband just slid under the table?”“No he didn’t – he just walked in the front door!”

In Canada they had “grass widows” , when a married guy would “date” a neighbor, they would have to go to the next town to get any leg. Don’t know how the term grass widow came about, I just heard it.

Cosa Nostril: Grass (as in roll in the …, always greener…, etc.) as opposed to sod (as in under it). Widowed because of death or “widowed” because of pending (or past) abandonment. The term has been around at least a century.

John . . . you’re just being soooooooooo disrespectful to your wife right now!!!!! If people think Elly is nothing but an insecure shrew, all you have to do is watch John’s salivating and eyes popping out of his head over other women to know why!