For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 08, 2010

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    OpenWings  over 14 years ago

    ….er, what was any of that? lol

    Poor Connie’s got it baaaad. Look at that face! xD

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    doublepaw  over 14 years ago

    What’s not to understand,……and what’s funny?

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    CarolinaGirl  over 14 years ago

    Paul Jones for those of us that didn’t read this strip the first time around….PLEASE STOP TELLING US WHAT’S COMING UP NEXT

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    pearlandpeach  over 14 years ago

    Just skip reading the spoilers. there are 4 I just skip.

    I think you have to be born in certain years to get all Phil is saying… I think it is a hoot !

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    arsmall  over 14 years ago

    Yeah, guess I won’t be reading the comments much…besides CarolinaGirls, if you go on FBORFW website and read the character backgrounds you get the end result…but I guess you didn’t do that cause you wanna be surprise…well ok…LOL!

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    frightenup Premium Member over 14 years ago

    20 years from now texting lingo or hip-hop phrases will be hilarious to today’s young people.

    Ji2m, let us know what you find because that’s the only one I don’t know either.

    I agree with CarolinaGirls – Paul Jones, at least please put a SPOILER WARNING on your post so we know to skip it.

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    alondra  over 14 years ago

    What’s scary is I did understand all of that except banana like some of you. But I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s.

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    puddleglum1066  over 14 years ago

    Those of you complaining about spoilers… if you really can’t guess what’s going to happen next, you’re not reading the strip.

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    vldazzle  over 14 years ago

    I agree with pudding, and though I finished HS in ‘55, I don’t get the banana bit either- I just figured by context… maybe it had to do with “top banana”, 2nd banana etc…

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    BigHug  over 14 years ago

    That’s some jive talking lol. Connie should have taken the hint along time ago. Check out the tshirt “Good times Boogie Band.”

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    summerdog86  over 14 years ago

    One of the many reason’s that Phil seems creepy to me.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 14 years ago

    what about her child with the broken leg…she hasn’t even seen him yet……isn’t there a little raking over the coals for that in order ?

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    pearlandpeach  over 14 years ago

    we are reading, we just are not mind readers or reading ahead. on some other site.

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    dsom8  over 14 years ago

    I would go with the “banana” reference as reflecting the common “top banana” phrase. See http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-ban2.htm, which gives the source of top banana as “a slapstick comedian in vaudeville.” This is a stage context that fits the strip better than alternative explanations.

    There are no spoilers, as far as I know. This is a new version of the original storyline, and Lynn can take it wherever she likes. As to what comes next, your own imagination can provide all the alternatives you need!

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    mrsmcvargas  over 14 years ago

    If I’m not mistaken, Banana is a club

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    bugboy57  over 14 years ago

    no banana= no appeal. doesn’t like the place but the money’s good

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    JanLC  over 14 years ago

    nighthawks: Go back and read all of last week’s comments. Connie has been raked over the coals so much, she’s roasted.

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    Allan CB Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Just flag PaulJones and have his posts deleted. After a while, he’ll get the hint that We Don’t Want His foreknowledge.

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    ocean17  over 14 years ago

    “hang loose and we’ll rap” haw haw haw haw he sure is cool

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    Seed_drill  over 14 years ago

    Gweedo Murray said, about 12 hours ago

    Lost me at “bilingual”.

    It’s a gag probably lifted from the then recent airplane movie, where some black passengers used so much slang they required interpreters (nuns, if I recall) who were “fluent in jive” to translate.

    It’s probably even more amusing to Canadians, since this is supposed to be happening in Montreal.

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    POPPA1956  over 14 years ago

    Brings to mind a passage from “Autobiography of Malcom X” about a white guy that spoke so much Jive, Malcom could hardly understand him.

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    mroberts88  over 14 years ago

    Someone wanna tell me what any of that meant?

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    Ooops! Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Allan Cupid mentioned the flag. I tried to look up flag/flagging in the Help section but could find no mention of it.

    Could someone please explain how it works and what it accomplishes to me?

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    bluetopazcrystal  over 14 years ago

    Susan001, that’s right. He’s reacting like a typical male, who has just met a friend. He has no clue she hss feelings for him. And i also got the jargon, but the banana is a new one.

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    frightenup Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I do the same, Burgundy2, and only flag the really hateful ones.

    Off the subject, but I’ve been meaning to say it, your avatar is cool, LuvH8!

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    Since when does he talk like a beatnik? LOLOL! In his about to blow you off big time, alternate personality, he turns into Maynard G. Krebs?

    He knows what’s happening and he went into panic mode when he saw the crazed look in her unstable eyes. He’s been hounded before. “Too much” is right! Today we call it stalking. Elly told him Connie’s after him and he told Elly he isn’t into her. He figured that would be the extent of it, like any rational person would think.

    Run Phil, run! Right out the back door, before she hides in your closet and eventually kills you with your own pipe, but only after she hobbles you, feeds you your pet for dinner, and pretends to be your wife for a couple of torturous weeks, while you try to convince her how bad you really are for her.

    (If you really can’t see the humor in that last part, you haven’t seen enough movies.)

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    mroberts88  over 14 years ago

    Burgundy2, I dont typically flag. Only if its completely offensive.

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    BigHug  over 14 years ago

    Is the other women in the audience too? Oh boy the fur is going to fly! Cat fight! You let go of my man.

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    Re: the above conversation - Comments are only deemed inapopropriate when there is foul language, spam, subject matter inappropriate in public, or when people call other people out by name and pick fights with them, acting abusively, calling people names like “troll”, or worse, which I only see coming from the people talking about flagging everyone else. If you keep flagging people just because you don’t like them and think that they have no right to comment here, they can end up revoking your privileges.

    If someone’s playing nice, but you just don’t happen to like their opinion, it isn’t a reason to flag their comments. They have to be breaking the rules of the site.

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    vldazzle  over 14 years ago

    Thanks Susan, and Dsom8- I think the 1st and 2nd banana is the right interpretation (though I never heard it used as Phil did). the rest of the jargon WAS typical (and obvious that he is…”NOT that into her”;-) and YES, she IS neglecting her son (even if it’s just his hurt feelings!)

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Could “banana” be referring to another well known night-club or hot spot?

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    dlauthor  over 14 years ago

    Banana just seems to be a word Lynn made up in an attempt to speak in a “hip” way. Unfortunately, her complete and utter tin ear for slang (cf. any strip involving April and her friends) betrays her once again.

    Either that, or she asked her brother for some beat-speak, and he knew she’d use it to do a hatchet-job with his comics alter-ego, so he fed her a particularly preposterous one, not realizing that thirty years later people on comments boards would be analyzing the blasted thing like Talmudic scholars.

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