For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 24, 2022

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A normal comic today

Shakespeare rolling in his grave?

What about Michael? Is he going to be arrested?

It’s actually a spoonerism. Better alert Jason Snakelover.

They left out the next panel where Elly grabs the cup and pours its contents over John’s head.

Back when I was working, I used to stir my morning cup of tea that same noisy way. The walls between offices were just a thin kind of particle board and the sweet old guy in the next office would hear me and tap “shave and a haircut” on the wall to say “good morning”.

What happened to this week’s arc?? Is Michael still in the Canadian version of Riker’s??

If you ‘tink’ your coffee long enough. You will have to go somewhere and ‘tinkle’. won’t you?

Not my problem; my husband & I both stir our coffee/tea at our “coffee station”, where the spoon stays.

I can’t stand it when people click their pens. Click. Click. Clickity. Click. Clickity. Grrrrr!

If the judge believe what Michael say

He be home by the break of day

If he don’t Michael will be looking cute

Behind bars in a striped suit

To tink, or not to tink?

I thought Mike and his buddies might be getting arrested today! ??

The FOOB crappy pun #528061

You better re-tink that you’re just stirring up trouble

And so starts mid life.

The ‘tink’ of a man’s life. Our need to be relevant in even some very small way.

That was a quick switch of a storyline.

If Mike gets busted, imagine the news getting out. Lhetta and Rolne will be shocked.

This can connect with the other storyline, where the Pattersons do a song:

John makes tinking noises like a hammer cracking rocks

Elly & Elizabeth: That’s the sound of Michael, working on the chain gang.

April{as bass}: Well don’t you know.

Elly & Elizabeth: That’s the sound of Michael, working on the chain gang.

All day long he works so hard, not taking a shower.

Working on Canada’s only highway and wearing a glower.

He works all day in the hot angry sun.

Got arrested for a protest, thought to himself it would be fun.

His, his, his, his, his, his work is so hard.

Give Michael water, he’s thirsty now.

His work is so hard.

Elly is on a short drive to crazy.

Often it’s not the big problems that drive spouses to divorce or, worse, murder. It’s those little annoying, over and over again habits that drive one crazy.

Descartes would be proud. I think. Sort of. …maybe not. Still worth a chuckle.

“To be is to do" – Socrates

“To do is to be” – Sartre

“Do Be Do Be Do” – Sinatra

“Scooby Do Be Do” – Shaggy

Tinker, Father, Dentist, Guy

Elly, maybe YOU are already there.

And another Wen Spencer fan is spotted

A strip to tink about.

After 20+ years of marriage, one should have mastered the art of annoyance.

“They” know but don’t care.

I tinkle therefore I am. The difference between p33ing and non p33ing.

I really cannot see the problem. I seems to me after awhile she wouldn’t even hear it anyore. It would be more like “white noise” that’s ignored. It reminds me of a woman complaining about her hubby snoring. After he passed, she wishes she could hear him snoring again. I seconded that!!

I drink it black

I had a favorite glass mug for my morning coffee (with milk and honey), and stirred my drink with a metal spoon, One day I noticed that the mug was a bit foggy where my spoon had been hitting it for years. Now I worry about long term gastrointestinal issues from drinking tiny glass pieces for many years. I switched to plastic spoons for stirring beverages – or plastic cups if I need a metal stirrer.

Helly, why don’t you go live on a desert island somewhere, seeing as EVERY LITTLE THING and EVERY OTHER PERSON ON EARTH drives you crazy!? Oh wait, you can’t live out in nature, because you can’t stand a single molecule of dirt! Once you vacuum all the sand off the island, it’ll just be you and the sharks. Please go!

Then go in the other room. For me hubby crunching on raw carrots gets me.

Or as Descartes would have said – Stupido ergo sum.

Tinking is something that doesn’t happen around here unless we’re drinking hot chocolate. We don’t drink coffee and I don’t like anything else in my tea so there’s nothing to stir.

There could be a strip with a comeback:

John: Ugh, what is that? Elly, is it your time of the month?

Elly: I stink, therefore I am!