For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 15, 2019

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 5 years ago

    sheesh, Mike, you’re THAT bored?

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    howtheduck  almost 5 years ago

    Wait a minute! The solution to Mike’s not having anything to wear is shopping for new clothes? This seems like a rich person’s solution to the problem. Just two weeks ago, we saw the floor on Michael’s room was covered in dirty clothes like the one he is sniffing in Panel 1. How about making the boy do some laundry first?

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    Watcher  almost 5 years ago

    Where’s Lizzie, she’ll get him riled up.

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    Auntie Socialist  almost 5 years ago

    Aaaah, there’s the rub

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    GirlGeek Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Why not teach Michael how to wash his own clothes at least?

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    RickTengle  almost 5 years ago

    he could also listen to tapes on his generic music player that’s no longer a walkmanhttps://fborfw.com/strip_fix/sunday-december-16-1990/

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    RickTengle  almost 5 years ago

    who’s a better rewriter, Lynn Johnston or Jeff Keane?

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    trainnut1956  almost 5 years ago

    Panel 3 – give him a pitchfork to clean his room, and parade him down to the laundry room. I learned to do my own laundry as a boy, rather than complain to mom about not having clean clothes. Just sayin’…

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    Yardley701  almost 5 years ago

    Mikes a teenager.

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    brick10  almost 5 years ago

    The challenges of being a teenager; trying to become comfortable in your own skin.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  almost 5 years ago

    Swimming? With it snowing? There must be a natatorium in town. I’d think a teen age boy would make that his default choice when he’s bored.

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    HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    I wonder if the strip were written to reflect the way the characters ought to behave if there would be anything funny about it.

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    TexTech  almost 5 years ago

    I had a job once where minor things would routinely go wrong. One of my coworkers was more than happy to complain about these aggravations. On the rare night everything went well, he would complain that he had nothing to complain about.

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    ms-ss  almost 5 years ago

    Don’t mean to brag, but when I was Michael’s age I was never bored. Now I’m 78 and still have so many things I can’t get to.

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    lbhorton  almost 5 years ago

    Get up, walk out the front door and adventure begins!

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    bryan42  almost 5 years ago

    Go swimming? In Ottawa? In mid December? I knew Canadians were supposed to be a hardy folk but this seems extreme!

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    JPuzzleWhiz  almost 5 years ago

    “Today’s strip was endorsed by Jerry Seinfeld!”

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    summerdog  almost 5 years ago

    John has just walked in with wrapped gifts. I’d be up and checking them out in case some were for me.

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    summerdog  almost 5 years ago

    Send Mike to the local thrift store. He’ll have a ball there. I still love a good thrift store.

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    circleM  almost 5 years ago

    It seems that so many people forget what it was like when they were teenagers or they were the perfect teen.

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    WilliamPennat  almost 5 years ago

    C’mon, Mike. Get creative. You can always complain about your parents not appreciating your complaining….

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    paranormal  almost 5 years ago

    Either there’s nothing to watch on TV or there’s five things you want to watch…

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 5 years ago

    Being bored is the way to coming up with new ideas. But not by incessant complaining.

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    capricorn9th  almost 5 years ago

    He just wants something different, some sort of excitement. His life has been the same old. We all live that everyday. He is a teen, brinking on adulthood. He will come to learn that it is just life – excitement doesn’t happen often.

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    samfran6-0  almost 5 years ago

    If he had to use a wringer washer, like I did until 1966, he’d really have something to complain about. Had to hang the clothes on lines to get dry. Then had to iron almost everything. Most of my generation (boomers) were taught how to do light house work. Even boys. My husband said his mother had to work so he had to do his part.

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    Jan C  almost 5 years ago

    When a teen is in the mood for complaining (and when isn’t he?) logic will never turn him off.

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    cmxx  almost 5 years ago

    To his first moan: “Do your laundry.”To his second moan: “You could sit on your fist and lean back on your thumb.”To his third moan: “Interesting; when I look at you, that’s what I see. Nothing to watch.”

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    WhoDat  almost 5 years ago

    That clown need a good slap up-side da head…

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