For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 21, 2021

Oh, Lizzie and Dawn trying to be like Candace, eh?

Michael is starting to look like his adult self.

And the price of Silence is?

You never do that right in front of the door! At least go around the corner, or behind a tree.

Smoking? In a word: don’t. Just don’t!

Tonight, on a Very Special Episode of FBOFW…

A word of advice Elizabeth-never play poker. Your body language would give you away every time.;-D

Only a smoker would think the odor of burning tobacco isn’t obvious to anyone with a good nose within 20 or more feet. Michael probably smelled the smoke the moment he went out the door.

The weather in Canada sure changes fast. Yesterday it was still summer and it was so hot that Michael raided the fridge without a shirt on. Technically it is still summer today but Michael has to put on a winter coat to go outside?

Why did she rope Dawn into her stupidity?

Welcome to “The FOOB After-School Special”..

Smoking causes cancer.

Lynn’s Comments:

My brother and I caught our dad on his balcony, smoking—after he swore that he had quit. He put the cigarette behind his back and Alan said, “Don’t look now, Dad…but your elbow’s on fire.” Alan has a great sense of humour! So many cartoons were based on real comments and real situations.

Yeah, well, that was bound to come up. Now all Mike has to do is figure out how to get her to do the dishes for him for as long as the secret lasts. I’m thinking a week or two at least.

Please don’t start smoking

I have never in my life ever understood why people are stupid and idiotic enough to start smoking. Maybe people born before 1960 or so, but after that? No excuse—it’s just ridiculous.

Taking a puff under the stairs!

As a non smoker I would have instantly smelled the disgusting odor of cigarette smoke.

Peer pressure can be a very persuasive thing.

Like she’d be so stupid to smoke right outside her front door!

Maybe smoking right outside the back door is as dumb as smoking in the first place.

I see a spanking coming for smoking…

Curiosity killed the lungs,the cat doesn’t smoke and it lived.

Remember the girl at Mike’s school dance who found out liquor tastes like paint thinner.

Busted.

Back when I was growing up, everyone smoked cigarettes, I started smoking when I was 6. Packs or cartons were very easy to buy and only cost 35 cents a pack. In the small town I lived in there were 2 cigarette machines on the sidewalk so getting smokes was very easy. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 6. Quit cold turkey age 19 while in Vietnam, I punched out every pack/carton of cigarettes for the entire year. Started smoking cigars and pipes in 1971, finally totally quit in 1982 as Doctor told me I would have emphysema in 6 months unless I quit cold turkey. I quit

Don’t smoke! (believe me…your lungs will thank you!)

I’ve always wondered how smoking got invented. Way back in time, who was walking thru the woods and saw a big leafy plant and thought to themselves “I bet if I picked that, dried it out just right, chopped it up, rolled it into a tube, lit it on fire AND inhaled the smoke into my lungs that would be the coolest thing ever!”. I mean really, how did this habit begin?

It is obvious how come the elbow is on fire…

The Pattersons were in a space ship to be the first Canadians to land on the Sun. Suddenly their ship was hit by…cosmic rays!

It was these rays that transformed them into the newest superhero group, the Adequate Quartet!

John is now Mr. Mediocre, with the ability to stretch. Michael can now become invisible, a.k.a. the Invisible One. Elizabeth has the ability to set herself on fire, a.k.a. the Person Torch. And Elly is now the super-strong Thingy!

Lawrence is not the only flamer in the strip.

Oh that, it’s nothing but please don’t tell Mom….

Those girls are NOT good, sweet Lizzy!!!

BUSTED!

I recall confronting my brother about cigarettes. He said the tobacco smell was from his buddy. I asked him why he had one tucked behind his ear.