Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 29, 2023

“Look, so I put on some weight – so sue me. I’m 50 years old, for chrissake! And you’re not exactly Sleeping Beauty anymore, are you?” The king formerly known as ‘Prince Charming’

He was happy until she started nagging.

Prince Charming has become Prince Charmin: squeezable soft.

And the sexy beast she fell for turned into a boring old prince.

Grammar Queen married the Context King (“You were a different woman at a different time when I said that”)

Perhaps she hasn’t realized that the “ever after” point hasn’t been reached yet.

If his name is Henry 8.0 she won’t be complaining very long.

King thinking to himself: “Oh God, here comes that royal pain in the a…”

Thinking: “Divorce? … Behead? … Die? What would Henry the Eighth do right now?”

Doesn’t ‘happily’ modify the verb ‘lived’? Just saying…

“Happily” and “Ever” both modify “After”.

If the Queen ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy. Especially the king.

Finally, they gave me a CROWN!!

Looks like all is more than copecetic in dog world.

Maybe one of them is happy.

Time to put on clothes and shoes and head down to the pub.

The secret to their “happily ever after” might lie in separate bedrooms in separate parts of town

So all you misogynists have to reinforce the nagging wife stereotype, but no one comments the joke isn’t funny because it’s inaccurate? “Happily” is an adverb modifying “lived” and is grammatically correct.

I think “ever after” actually modifies “happily”. Am I wrong? Methinks the queen is not so smart.

Boy Chuck has gone down hill fast.

All is not lost if the Queen is bringing him a fresh cup of coffee!

Must have missed the Schoolhouse Rock “Adverb” video.

In French when I was a kid the story ending was: they had many children and lived happily. I really hated it.

She needs to institute a different performance improvement plan for the lad

Kiss him and he’ll turn into King Henry the 8th

And the Patois King

I don’t think so. He seemed happy enough until you walked in.

And there’s also “crappily”.

Once known as Prince Charming, now known as His Lardship.

Happily ever after until the honeymoon is over.

Is it a female trait to get a man ensnared (for whatever reason) and then set to work on changing him into something he is not?

If it’s a predicate adjective, implied subject OK, no problem. If it modifies “live,” that’s a different story.

Does this scene look familiar? [https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2023/02/09]

He was Charming when he was a prince, but now he’s a king.

She DOES know that he got her servants to do all the housework, doesn’t she?

Does anyone diagram a sentence anymore?

I had an substitute English teacher in High School that was from Bastun (Boston) that pronounced Grammar as “Gramma” — it took a while to understand her speech idioms but she had a great sense of humor and within a couple of days had made a list of words of what she said verses what we thought she said.

Ah, the royals at home; the country’s in the very best of hands. I do love the coffee cup in Queenie’s hand and the size of the crown on Kingie’s head – just fits …

If she were truly a Grammar Queen, she would know that the adverb “happily” modifies the VERB “lived” (as does the phrase, “every after”). And yeah, I’m the daughter AND granddaughter of English teachers.

That is what she gets for kissing that frog.

The question nobody asks: “Ever after what?”

Tell her to go visit her mother.

Some people are only happy when they have something to complain about.

No…Here YOU go.