For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 17, 2023

oh, har-har

No Elly! Don’t pull the clean clothes out on the floor!!

Why is it that comic strip mothers are always doing laundry (or carrying laundry) when their kids talk to them??

Whack a mole!

From Lynn’s Comments: Folks at the syndicate told me the American newspaper editors would all change the Canadian spelling of “racquet” to “racket.” Surprisingly, very few did. Maybe it’s because “racquet” sounds better.

Salvaged?

Found.

Well, at least he didn’t say we’re looking to hit Elizabeth’s birdie!

So is Mom dropping the freshly dried clothes onto the waterlogged flooded basement floor carpet that needs to be replaced?

Maybe the story needs a little background, Mike.

well your not using her as target practice.

Use a whiffle ball. Thus the birth of Pickleball.

Lousy punchline.

Context, Mikey

Check the roof; I bet you find a few old frisbees too!

Don’t do that to your mom!

I think they are referring to the basement as a “crawl space.” Our house has a crawl space; the gap between the underside of the main level floor and the dirt. In some places our crawl space is about 8 feet high; in other parts it is about 4 feet high. Some houses have crawl spaces barely two feet high, thus the name crawl spaces.

Details Michael, the devil is in the details.

My earliest memory involves a birdie. We were at a summer cookout hosted by a friend of my dad’s, I toddled across the lawn and found a birdie lying in the grass. I don’t remember what if anything I did with it.

Freudian slip.

After all, what are (brothers and) sisters for?

Not exactly the right choice of words, Mike.

Uh, care to rephrase that Michael?

LOL… Mike is always messing with Mom.

Comedy is all in the timing!