For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 11, 2010

The only repellent we found that works is a 6 foot fence!!

I thought you’re supposed to carry a baby in FRONT of you, not on your back, so you can see what’s going on with your baby

You don’t need a fence, Anne! You need a .270 Winchester!

I like nibbling on the hostas.

Most of the early baby carriers were back-packs. Some of them were just aluminum pack frames supporting a cloth bag with leg holes. They may have been originally designed as a way to take your baby along while hiking.

Native Americans carried them on their backs.

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Put a scarecrow up in the garden and use voice recorder to scare of deers!

Nonsense flagged!

that kid is big enough to mightily sound an alarm if anything goes wrong. But reaching something and putting in the mouth might choke him.

Does she mean the fence works for the deer or her husband?

Love the name, but it would really sell if it were a product. Not much to do about deer (seen them do a standing leap over an 8 foot fence…) but plant things they do not like (like lamb’s ears) spam flagged

Finally, somebody “got” it! The joke is that she’s THINKING about the husband when she’s reading “Not tonight, deer”!

I would buy that product, if it existed. Even if we didn’t have deer, which we do (it’s a new house, but I’ve seen many deer tracks already).

Can’t wait to plant plants this Spring! We’ll have to get on that soon

Infants go in front. Toddlers - which Lizzie and Richard are - go in back.

Love the product name! Agree with Avolunteer, though, unless you’re willing to build a 12 foot high fence, not much will keep the deer out. I’ve seen them open a gate, when the latch wasn’t secure. Spam flagged. How many flags does it take to get rid of it?

Anniefan: that usually isn’t the way with backpacks.

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on the flag again….

Frigidness, the first sign of a problematic relationship.

I guess Elly sees the repellant as a symbol of what she wants to say to John! LOL!

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Being an Alaskan, our problem isn’t deer, it’s moose. They have an uncanny ability to know when you are ready to harvest, and wipe out your garden the night before. A fence doesn’t do it, they jump them. I finally foiled them with a fence, not to keep them out, but to keep my 2 large dogs in. They don’t like dogs so much.

Not Tonight Deer. My wife buys the economy size at Sam’s Club

agh flagged again will it ever go away?

ah, a peek into the lovelife of our intrepid pair

this could explain the choo choo going all over the yard thing

I flagged the spam too, and also wonder how long it takes for it to be removed.

funny. Just yesterday someone commented that Elly doesn’t do gardening, and yet her she is…..funny.

We came across a product called Liquid Fence. Garlicly based, stinks really bad, but boy does it work! Works on the wife’s roses as well. Been using it for years.

Have to agree with Lewreader here. My wife got her’s at Costco! LOL

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I flagged the spam too…

So did I. How many more?

My wife uses the repellent AND a fence

I find that once deer are cleaned and in the freezer they don’t do much nibbling on the plants as for the Scarecrow , deer arn’t as dumb as birds , once they see the thing doesn’t move or chase them they will ignore it.

We once had a neighbor who grew watermelons for sale and he had lots of problems with the deer. They use a hoof to poke a hole in the melon then stick their nose in and lap up the whole inside he had a field of melons that looked like deflated basketballs and some fat happy deer. He made his money back by leasing the land to some hunters come fall Sweet revenge.

50 caliber roundnose works real good. heck of a kick, but a good old gun.

we have about 25 deer roaming our property. I love watching them. My garden consists of daffodils and lots of rosemary, which they don’t like.

I don’t think anything eats rosemary except humans!

spam flagged here too

My wife uses the repellent AND a fence

I can’t get my Fence to take deer.. he only takes jewels and stolen electronics

G’morning Y’allll!

I got spams flagged few times. It was so annoying! Sighhh!

Forget the deer repellent: is there a SPAM repellent?

It figures she would like that one. I never could figure out how someone so uptight and cold ended up with three kids.

Nothing keeps the deer away forever. They get used to everything, including the bars of Irish Spring, and the coffee grounds. Just let them be. They’re hungry, and so are their babies. Don’t use poisons.

Liquid Fence may be what my mother uses. I’m not sure. She found something. The worst part about them are the ticks. Both my dogs are on medication for Lyme DIsease now! That’s the drawback of living in the woods with state trails all around.

I do not condone shooting them, and neither does the law in most states. I especially don’t condone shooting them as “pests”. It’s sickening to joke about it. There are plenty of legal ways to shoot them for food, but not for fun or “revenge”. That’s just sociopathic.

And ya, I have guns, permits and a lifelong NRA membership. I’m not anti guns at all. Don’t even start with that, it isn’t the point.

Spam flagged - and it’s now 13 plus hours’ old….

And yes; the best deer repellents are found in .30 gauge and up… although rosemary will help, some. As will the dogs…

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Maybe the flag people are asleep.

Maybe if Mrsluke signed her name, the flag people would get on it. Mrsluke can you clear up the mystery of Victoriassecret blurb.

*howtheduck said, about 1 hour ago

It’s unusual for Lynn Johnston use the name of a real product as a source of humour for her comic strip. See the link for the real product of Not Tonight Deer deer repellent:

http://www.nottonight.com/*

howtheduck: Thanks for the link! How hilarious is that?! I did notice, however, at the bottom it says copyright 1999-2006 so maybe Lynn didn’t copy it from them … maybe they copied it from her!?!?!?

F - L - A - G - G - E - D the spam here and over at the C&H site too. How annoying!!!!!

Littledutchboy, I answed this question for you on Shoe. I won’t repost it, here. I might get flagged for spamming, lololol! Thanks for the high praise and vote of confidence in my “abilities”, lol.

Maybe we can all use The Force, and will away the SPAM!

Burgundy2 I know all about the crazy Canadian long gun mess! Don’t worry, that’s all currently being scrapped by the same bunch of maroons that got it put in place, costing Canadians billions of dollars for nothing, and depriving you of your privacy, your money, and your right to protect yourselves,

I love Chuck Connors as The Rifleman, but I prefer handguns. I don’t hunt. We have to shoot at a range here. I have Zombie targets and Osama Bin Laden targets. He’s so ugly, you can’t wait to shoot his whole face out.

Alas, you are so right Susan – and she would have done it from a helicopter. We’ve managed to keep the deer out primarly with garlic. Just sprinkle a few cloves around (my husband chops it up, but it’s not necessary) and if you push the whole cloves in the ground, it sometimes starts to grow. Keeps the rabbits at bay too. Alas, it does not work for spam. Another flag for what it’s worth.

Hopefully the site will find a way to block the spammers, but until then just ignore as I have when I see they have been flagged. I also remember that style of baby carriers ;-) and when we were children our parents just watched us more carefully…

JFri said, 1 day ago

You don’t need a fence, Anne! You need a .270 Winchester!

JFri; The fence is a much better option. How could anyone kill a beautiful creature like a deer. We have deer that go through the neighbour’s yard on the way to the Sechelt Inlet. We have a fence, because we also have dogs. But the deer are so awesome to watch. The meat isn’t needed, you have grocery stores for that stuff. Wanton shooting of animals is horrible!

Burgundy2: How oh how did Canada make it too much of a hassel to own guns? Could it work in the US?

In Europe, the murder rate is in double-digits In the US, it’s triple-digits, no wait, the 1000’s. I don’t understand why that is not the ONLY STATISTIC THAT COUNTS? I have always wondered if most members of the NRA aren’t dreaming about and drolling over the thought of Revolution. I’m glad I’m old.

howtheduck: Thanks for the info.

While I know that Lynn occasionally “tweaks” her comics these days to sort of “update” them a little bit, I had no idea she was still drawing new (“old”) FBorFW comic strips.

I didn’t start reading this comic until well after April was born so these early strips are all “new” to me (so I wouldn’t know the difference (at this stage in the Pattersons’ lives) between strips she drew years ago and strips that she’s currently drawing now).