# "For Worser or for Best" (Sunday's "Lio") **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555 "2007-03-26T16:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555/1 "2007-03-26T16:10:34Z")
[Link](http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2007/03/25/) This made me laugh out loud when I read it yesterday! Especially the part about Anthony’s “Wallpaper Brush Mustache!” And be sure to see what Lio’s writing on the last cue card - he’s so twisted! “Lio” showed up in our daily paper sometime last year, and more often than not is good for a chuckle. Interestingly, there’s never any dialog in the strip - the creator calls it a “pantomine strip.” As far as I can remember this is the first time I’ve ever seen dialog balloons. Anybody else enjoy this bizarre litle kid? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555/2 "2007-03-26T16:33:36Z")
While Liz not wanting to end up with the “wuss with a wall-paper brush mustache” was funny, I liked Grandpa getting out of the chair and ditching the “losers” so he could blow some dough on hot dancing girls. All in all, I love Lio. It reminds me of Charles Addams’ work. Even more though, I love the letters to the editor complaining about Lio. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555/3 "2007-03-26T16:39:02Z")
I can’t make out what’s on either of the cue-cards – anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555/4 "2007-03-26T16:50:00Z")
It reads “And when are those two dogs gonna croak already??!!” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555/5 "2007-03-26T17:04:30Z")
And the other one is the line Grandpa just read. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555/6 "2007-03-26T17:22:37Z")
I linked to one with speech a few months ago. I don’t know if I can find it again today, and I don’t feel inclined to try, so I’m just going to lay it out. First panel: Lio standing next to a little table with a telephone on it. The handset is off the phone, and Lio is blowing a trombone into the mouthpiece. Second panel: Charlie Brown and Lucy Van Pelt, in the style they looked like in about 1959. Lucy is holding the phone out to Charlie Brown, saying, “It’s your teacher.” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-worser-or-for-best-sundays-lio/397555/7 "2007-03-26T23:34:10Z")
Oh, yes, I also laughed out loud at “For Worser or for Best”. _Lio_ replaced _Foxtrot_ in my local paper. Considering I remember a letter to the editor objecting to Dan Piraro’s _Bizarro_ as “gross-out” (& we lost Bizarro), I wonder how long it will last.