For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 10, 2013

Not exactly, Elizabeth, but it WAS an insult!

@Night-Gaunt49: As best I can tell, GoComics quarantined/banned you sometime between noon and 3PM CDT yesterday, no doubt because one of your earlier comments violated #3 in the Terms and Conditions. That means that you can see your un-deleted comments, but, except for your last 10 in your profile page, they’re invisible to the rest of the world. If you don’t believe me, post a comment, Sign Out, refresh the page, and your comment will disappear. Sign In and it’ll be there again; really quite insidious when you think about it.When this happened to me last February, I asked GoComics why, but got no reply other than that my note was being forwarded to the moderator, who never gave me an explanation. I deleted the comment that I thought might have caused the banning, and others wrote GoComics on my behalf. I don’t know which was more effective in getting me reinstated.GoComics never told me I had been banned and didn’t tell me when I had been reinstated; in my case it was about 2 weeks after writing them. Since I had wished someone had told me when it happened, I’m telling you. Good luck with your appeal, if you make one.

I had this conversation with my son last week when he said (for the first time- we don’t swear)- “What the *?” And I told him he’d get in trouble for saying that, but that we are pretty silly for making these rules. Saying “you’re stupid” is much worse, morally.

Actually, I think what Michael means is that even though Elizabeth is a girl, she doesn’t count because she’s his sister, so his “no girls allowed” rule doesn’t really apply to her.

Some words just seem ‘bad’ to little kids. One time my grandson (abt 3yrs old) was visiting and his Uncle Gary said to him “Hi, Nephew”. He went running to his parents and said, “Gary called me a NEPHEW!, I’m not a NEPHEW!” His mom just laughed and said, You most certainly are!!

little sisters aren’t really girls!!

He’s just saying that because he can’t do anything about her being there.

Not sure what time period this is supposed to be, but it sounds like Elizabeth needs to check Wiktionary!

Probably, but he does not have to say it every five minutes. Maybe Lynn did not want to make “lizardbreath” an enduring joke.

Night-Gaunt49 got banned? Hard to see why, but how do we contact the site? Just the general contacts Contact Us at the bottom of the page?

Sisters do not count as girls to boys. They are a irritation to be endured. When he gets older, she will count only if her girlfriends are cute and possibly date-able.

Mike means, the bigger kids will disregard her because of her size. Intent was not to insult, but to clarify her existence in the party’s reality.

I sent out some birthday cards for my birthday party. It’s for tonight. Hard to believe I’m already 23.

Just be happy you’re going to your brother’s party Lizzie!

Welcome back Night-Gaunt, but what do you know about Gweedo?