For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 27, 2010

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    cc2  over 14 years ago

    how smart its better to b away frm such disaster somtimes wen u know u ll not b safe……

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    puddleglum1066  over 14 years ago

    Neil DeGrasse Tyson demonstrates how to do this in a “Nova Science Now” clip:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOHBDiR5urE

    Read the disclaimers carefully. Trained professional. Closed course. Don’t try this at home…

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    NoahsMama  over 14 years ago

    Paul Jones,

    That’s where I thought this was going as well…guess Ellie has gotten to the kids too…sad when the victim is youthful exuberance!

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    Allison Nunn Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I bet most of us tried to “dig a hole to China” when we were young (though that isn’t where we’d end up if it went straight through from North America). I think the point of the strip is that Michael & Lawrence think they have dug a really deep hole and are already worried it is too close to the center of the earth. The topic with today’s disasters only fits by coincidence, remember these are repeat strips…..

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    Obi-Wandreas Premium Member over 14 years ago

    You do realize that she no longer writes this strip, and that they are simply rerunning it from its beginning several decades ago.

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    BuzzDog  over 14 years ago

    Now there’s a good excuse for not digging post holes for a new fence!

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    kajunclown  over 14 years ago

    she is still drawing the strip….she just took it back 30 years and uses some repeats with some original work.

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    Wildmustang1262  over 14 years ago

    I do not believe about digging through the earth to China. Nonsense! Elly is wise to explain these boys about digging into the hole to reach the core for volcano. Perfect explanation! Now these boys filled the hole up and be done with that. LOLs!

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    Notgiven  over 14 years ago

    We dug holes like that and wondered about digging through to China when we were kids. At the time, nobody told us about the core.

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    summerdog86  over 14 years ago

    The kids are wimps. I would have just dug deeper and faster if mom told me that.

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    kfaatz925  over 14 years ago

    Flagged ‘em all. yeesh!

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    Sugie63  over 14 years ago

    Me too. Does it do anything?

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    dsom8  over 14 years ago

    But this is similar to an original daily strip: http://catalog.fborfw.com/indexdate.php?q=1985-07-15

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    lightenup Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I was a little disappointed by the ending also. I thought it would say something like “Let’s keep going!” This isn’t the Michael that I’ve come to know.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 14 years ago

    Paul Jones said: This is an odd conclusion; if I’d have been told I could dig so deep, I’d start a volcano when I was seven, I’d have dug faster because that would be wicked cool.

    lightenup said: I was a little disappointed by the ending also. I thought it would say something like “Let’s keep going!” This isn’t the Michael that I’ve come to know.

    I agree with you both on this one! I expected to find Michael telling Lawrence that they needed to keep on digging because … how cool would it be to have a volcano right there in their own back yard?!?!?!? When I got to the end of the comic, I was terribly disappointed with such an uncharacteristic ending for a couple of 6 or 7 year old boys!!!!!

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    TheWildSow  over 14 years ago

    When I was 7 or so, I read a story about the formation of Paricutin – the volcano that grew in a Mexican farmer’s cornfield. I must have checked our backyard every day for a month, hoping we’d get one, too! Of course, no such luck; volcanoes don’t usually develop in suburban Pennsylvania. But a girl can always hope!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin

    Yeah, disappointing ending for this one.

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    vldazzle  over 14 years ago

    When people write as though they are texting, it makes me wonder if they simply don’t speak our language, or being ignorant on purpose. I may not always check my spelling and grammar, especially when rushed or tired, but at least I try ;-)

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    rogcbrand  over 14 years ago

    Lynn needs to be reading some Calvin and Hobbes to get a clue as to how boys really think! I can’t imagine any boy not wanting to create a volcano in his own backyard!

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    Smiley Rmom  over 14 years ago

    @vldazzle I agree! I’m pretty tolerant of those whose first language isn’t English, but the people who write in “textspeak” are really irritating. Especially for those of us who don’t do texting, so we have to decode everything that they write. It might be faster for them to write, but much slower than normal English for most people to read.

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