Wednesday, 4 September 2024
The one where Brian makes with the pedestrian wordplay.
Synopsis: Lynn reminds us that she has pretty much no idea how men behave when Mike and Brian talk about how immediate marriage feels when a peer gets married. This occasions a bad pun on the part of the idiot who marries into a foreign culture because of the pea-brained racism that's only in ( Read more... )
If the habit Lizzie has of being a sulking, possessive infant who doesn't like the idea of expanding her social circle is any clue:
Lindy drove her friends away by being a prickly idiot who hates the idea of give and take.
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Interesting idea. I do wonder if this Elizabeth story was based on Lynn's own experiences in high school.
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Lindy can be any physical age but mentally, she's a gloomy five year old idiot child who thinks that adding someone new to the equation means that they don't like her and lie about it.
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Hey Lynn, what is a Friend's Get Along and how can I acquire one? More to the point, why doesn't someone with a degree in English and a talent for proofreading know when to use an apostrophe "s?"
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Lindy was half-asleep in English class and it shows.
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Lynn Johnston should read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (no relation to Liz Truss, the shortest-serving United Kingdom prime minister).
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Follow-up to my first comment: I reread the first strip. I think that what Lynn Johnston meant for Elly to say was "I have more than one friend, and all my friends get along together." I think she meant to add a comma after "I have more than one friend." I don't think she meant to add an apostrophe after the d in "friends" in "all my friends get along together." She made the comma after "I have more than one friend" a little too large, so that it looked like an apostrophe after the d in "friends" in "all my friends get along together." I don't think Lynn Johnston meant to write "all my friend's [sic] get along together." Lynn Johnston didn't make a grammar mistake or spelling mistake in this strip after all. This strip simply wasn't very well drawn. I still think that Lynne Truss's book Eats, Shoots & Leaves is a wonderful book that everyone who cares about the English language should read.
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Lynn simply rushed through writing the dialogue again.
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Is 'Be More Understanding?' really the punchline? It doesn't even follow from a poor buildup. And this is the only family in history where a sister seeks friendship advice from her brother, or the brother is interested in his sister's dating life. This is just weird, Lynn.
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It's also the only family where the phrase 'mother approved' isn't being used ironically.
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