For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 03, 2025

Smart! Very smart there Doc!!!

At least Elly has sense enough to keep her butt-cheeks covered.

Nice artwork today Lynn. ;)

Well trained husband.

Well done, John. You’re learning.

John knows the drill.

As I am off to the beach on Friday with my wife, I think this is a line I am going to carve into my brain. Thanks for this, Lynn!

Eyes straight! That remark was a test.

Spot on, John…

Score one for John!

Good save, John! He knows what’s good for him.

smooth

Nice Recovery!

Very smooth Mr. P!

Nicely done John. That’s a lot better than “Really? I didn’t notice.”

If you don’t look, you’re an insensitive cad. If you do look, you’re a lecherous lout.

daw… :]

Nice recovery, Jon.

I absolutely live by that concept. I want to make sure she feels appreciated at home so she doesn’t look for validation anywhere else.

Reminds me of line President Carter in his Playboy interview.

“Quoting Matthew 5:27-28, Carter explained that Jesus Christ considered an offending thought equivalent to consummated adultery, and by that standard, he was in no position to judge a man who ‘shacks up’ and ‘scrws lots of women,’ because he had ‘looked on many women with l-st’ and, thus, ‘committed adultery many times in my heart.’

Headline writers, satirists and late-night television pounced anyway, labeling it Carter’s ‘l-st in my heart’ interview.

The fallout, in Carter´s words, ‘nearly cost me the election.’

‘Saturday Night Live,’ then a fledgling NBC sketch comedy show, had a field day. One political cartoonist depicted Carter l-sting after the Statue of Liberty."

His honesty almost cost him the election. I remember the bru ha-ha.-

He’s gonna get some leg tonight for sure…

He knows there is no chance he will ever be with one of those beach beauties, but he will be with his wife.

After ending up in the dog house many times, Jon has learned. Especially after Farley (R.I.P.) and Edgar finally kick him out.

Good response John. Apparently learned his lesson after his last faux pax about Elly’s maturing face/body. Would have gotten extra point if he had said “the prettiest one”.

Good man, Darryl, you get to live another day.

A lot of thong bottoms on women now.

It used to be that it was John looking at the women on the beach and now it’s Elly. I wonder if her orientation has been retconned the same way it was done to Lawrence.

These ladies are carrying their purses to hold their money and all Elly has is John to hold his, I mean her, money.

Nice, John.

Discretion, being the better part of valor, saves the day for John, from a situation that could have easily spiraled into the depths of vacation he!!.

The correct response could also have been “I didn’t notice any girls.”

Is John looking to dip his spoon in the pudding in the fourth panel?

Bravo!

When I moved from a land-locked state to a California beach city immediately after giving birth, I was a little intimidated by the quantity and quality of near-naked bodies on the beach.

Then I realize the ultimate truth: no matter how good or how bad I look, there will always be someone who looks better and someone who looks worse. It’s a very freeing realization.

great line!!! someone’s going to be happy tonight

It’s OK to look. Doesn’t matter what makes you hungry, as long as you come home for dinner.

John is a truly an experienced husband….

Careful Elly. John went BOING! when he saw Rhetta.

As we males get older, our peripheral vision gets better

can i trade mine for hers?

The beaches in Mexico are topless, it was tough whenever my wife and I went there.

Disaster averted!

First one’s a tourist.

Touchdown!

Right Answer ! ;-)

Love it!

Great answer, John1