For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 08, 2011

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    DerkinsVanPelt218  over 13 years ago

    Why is it when your parents give something to do, it’s never fun?

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    pouncingtiger  over 13 years ago

    Michael’s words take me back to when I was a kid.

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    WebSpider  over 13 years ago

    If I came out with half the sarcasm that Michael gets away with, I’d have had a hard time sitting for at least a week… Lynn wrote his dialog like he was a teenager not a kid…

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    stormydaze  over 13 years ago

    (Later), my famous last words before a stare of death from Mom.

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    gobblingup Premium Member over 13 years ago

    No, Michael, it’ll be now or the choices will get less desirable.

    In the second panel, Farley almost looks like a little sister with pony tails. Cute! :-)

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    TexTech  over 13 years ago

    I’m with your Darkeforce. I don’t recall boredom being a problem as a kid. I read a lot and then I used to do something really scary and dangerous. I used to “go outside” to play with the other kids in the neighborhood.

    It makes me kind of sad to drive down residential streets these days and almost never see any kids out playing. It is all indoors today with video games and web surfing. Little wonder we are becoming a fat nation.

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    AZLILSIS  over 13 years ago

    Lynn should have included what happened next, hopefully, he got what was coming to him.

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    Allan CB Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Oh oh … NEVER say you’re bored to a mother. There is ALWAYS something to do…

    To those who asked me yesterday … I am not an employee of GoComics.com OR Lynne Johnson. I *do* know to go to http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/ and read Lynne’s comments, hence how I knew yesterday that these are new strips.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    TexTech said: It makes me kind of sad to drive down residential streets these days and almost never see any kids out playing. It is all indoors today with video games and web surfing. Little wonder we are becoming a fat nation.

    Television, computers and video games may be a big part of why kids don’t play outside much anymore but unfortunately, there are also a lot more deviant people roaming the streets now than there used to be so it’s no longer safe to leave children outside to play unattended without worrying that someone’s going to kidnap them if you take your eyes off them for 5 seconds.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    “Just wait until your father gets home” was one of my mother’s most popular expressions that always kept my sister and me on the straight and narrow around our house when we were kids. My dad wasn’t really abusive but he had a short temper at times and didn’t seem to mind giving us spankings when he felt they were deserved … and sarcastic back-talk to my mother at any kind of a chore request like this was definitely a punishable-by-spanking offense.

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