For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 11, 2013

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    Can't Sleep  over 11 years ago

    I’ll buy that.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 11 years ago

    kids say the darndest things (I’m surprised a kid. as Elizabeth Patterson’s age here knows the opposite of “over”).

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    kittylover2  over 11 years ago

    Well mom time to make her clean up her own mess.

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    TooOldToBeCool  over 11 years ago

    It’s okay – Farley will clean it up.

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    jeanie5448  over 11 years ago

    our dog would have been all over those “left unders”.

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    keltii  over 11 years ago

    I think there is a booster seat,, they just happen to have coloured it the same colour as her pants.

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    DixieNormous_69  over 11 years ago

    Good one,Lynn!!

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    loves raising duncan  over 11 years ago

    Touche’

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    dreamer2112  over 11 years ago

    Senex: LOL

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    Allan CB Premium Member over 11 years ago

    She got you there Elly … and where is Farley? I’m sure Farley was around at this point.

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    Allan CB Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Tis a cartoon … so the table was ‘lowered’ or the chair ‘raised’ … to make it easier on Lynn.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Wrong. Schulz gave Lynn credit for leftunders in a book.

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    Hawthorne  over 11 years ago

    Actually, I read it as Shultz admiring Lynn’s comment.

    YMMV, I suppose …

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    AndiJ  over 11 years ago

    Yeah, where is the dog. Mine would’ve cleaned that up in one second! :)

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago

    @howtheduck: Here’s what Schulz said in the Foreword to The Last Straw, included in the book link from my prior comment:

    Foreword   The comic pages needed LynnJohnston. They needed someone withher distinctive approach.   I have noticed lately that a lot of theso-called gags in some of our newerstrips are virtually interchangeable. NotLynn’s. Her ideas match her characters.She can draw, too. She can drawtelephones, dentists’ chairs, fat ladiesskinny ladies, dogs, trumpets, kids, anddresser drawers. She can also coinphrases like “leftunders” for “leftovers.”And she isn’t afraid of sadness, as whenLizzie became ill.   The comic pages needed LynnJohnston — she arrived justin time.                        Charles M. Schulz                        Creator of PeanutsThis strip was originally published June 12, 1984, a day short of 29 years ago. You say leftunders didn’t originate with her, but to me coin a phrase (as Schulz claims) means originate. But no one said she originated leftunders (though I think there’s a good chance she did). I only refuted your unsubstantiated claim that she borrowed (i.e., stole) it from Schulz. Hopefully, that’s now been put to rest.
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    misty jade  over 11 years ago

    My favorite made-up phrase in this strip was when everyone set out all the leftovers and stuff from the fridge and cupboards for, as it’s put, Snordasborg.

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    Adele Derwald  over 11 years ago

    My boyfriend eats like that. Thankfully, we have cats :-)

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