For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 09, 2013

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    pawpawbear  almost 12 years ago

    “Sayings” are learned one at a time.

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    tripwire45  almost 12 years ago

    Actually, based on the storyline so far, she messed up by explicitly planning for what Michael was supposed to do when she was going to be late. She assumed he’d go to a neighbor’s place but she didn’t actually tell this to Michael or to any particular neighbor. This isn’t Michael’s problem, this is his Mom’s.

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    psychlady  almost 12 years ago

    Uh, oh. This could get interesting!

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    kab2rb  almost 12 years ago

    my mom never considered working after she had sister and me. She still kept talking as if she still worked at the place. When we got older she did find a job then complained how hard it was. We just told her to quit then.

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    Can't Sleep  almost 12 years ago

    Considering the endless stream of comments carping about Elly’s clothes, posture, cooking, mothering, I have to wonder —Why do you guys READ THE STRIP?Are you really just complaining about your own mothers?

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    rhsasl  almost 12 years ago

    luv this strip, quit your bitching, whining and moaning, don’t read it if you don’t like it :(

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    sundogusa  almost 12 years ago

    Lizzie grows up to be a teacher, Mike grows up to be a writer and marries Deanna, and Farley dies saving Lizzie from teh flooding river! There! Now some of you complainers don’t have to read teh strip any more! I just gave the whole strip away!

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    msmaddog01  almost 12 years ago

    Read this strip a couple of years ago when.. Michael is married, Elizabeth is grown and about to be married or at least engaged..and there’s a new baby girl Can’t remember name? new dog etc, etc, Mike is still friends with Lawrence…then all of a sudden we were back to beginnings..irritating but oh well.

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    msmaddog01  almost 12 years ago

    Thanks for bringing me back up to speed on baby name (April), who Mike marries, Farley’s feat rescuing April…..I knew I wasn’t the only one who remembered old strip.

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    AnonaMoaner  almost 12 years ago

    There’s a web site for FBOFW fans who came in half way and want to find out how it all began – not difficult to find. You can read the strips from the beginning, when Mike was just starting school and Lizzie was a baby.

    Then, if you’re patient enough to read one strip a day, you’ll have the whole story in thirty-odd years.

    Or else just wait until it gets all the way round and starts again!

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    TheAuldWan  almost 12 years ago

    Remember, this is a recycled strip now. Canadians waste nothing…..

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    loves raising duncan  almost 12 years ago

    Gosh, if I was left out in the cold waiting for a parent to come home, I’d guess I’d be a little out of joint too.

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    iced tea  almost 12 years ago

    My mother worked breifly when I was 4. Oh, the things that happened while she worked at that Italian restaurant. I fell off my sliding board, breaking my left elbow. Then the bratty neighbor boy molested me. Then my mother caught the flu and decided not to return to work.

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    USN1977  almost 12 years ago

    Elly needs to take off the horse blinders. Michael probably is unhappy with her new job, but not in the way Elly thinks. Michael was annoyed that Elly did not give him a key of his own, nor take a few minutes to say something such as “I have asked Mrs. Nichols if she will let you stay with her in case I am not home.”

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    gobblingup Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    AMEN, NightShade09 and Doc Toon!!

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    Gretchen's Mom  almost 12 years ago

    Lizzie only wants to see your crooked (or perhaps even broken, depending on just how “out of joint” it really is) nose, Michael!!!!! ;-)

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    loves raising duncan  almost 12 years ago

    Actually Farley died a few minutes after saving April, and it’s true, it’s very sad.

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