For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 17, 2023

Not helping, Michael.

One good hangover, where you think you are going to barf up your toenails, will cure a lot of mischief.

Used to love Molson Golden Ale when I was young.

PBR was our generation’s Corona. tasted like sh*t but had alcohol in it.

So! Mike is all grown up and just about to enter a whole new chapter of life – the university world. Elly has a son who is leaving home. Bittersweet time.

This immediately took me back to quarter beers at the campus tavern. The drinking age was 18 back then so most colleges had bars on campus since all the students, except for the few 17-year-olds in the first semester, could drink. I always thought it was good to have the bar on campus so we didn’t have to risk driving drunk afterward; we could just stagger back to the dorm.

Fear:

The swordfish has no natural predators to fear…

….except the penfish, which is supposed to be even mightier.

University students often live by the, “The beer necessities”.

University literature class: To beer, or not to beer, That is the question that ales us. To hop for a stout friend. Or to weep for a lost bitter enemy yeast we forget his deeds as a porter. Oh what a troubled brew we ferment for ourselves.

That’s the crazy English language. You would never have guessed that the words fear and bear don’t rhyme, in the saying, “have nothing to fear but a bear itself!”

I’m thankful that my younger daughter, who will be leaving for college in 1 week (!) doesn’t like alcohol. We’ve let her & her sister have a taste now & again. She’s also pretty immune to peer pressure; she’s definitely one who doesn’t follow the beat of a different drum…she follows the tubas!

I’m surprised that Canadians know that phrase from FDR. Did William Lyon MacKenzie King repeat it in 1933? Of course I mean, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

not helping… :L

So pray telly, Elly, of what you did when you were Michael’s age.

Could that be why you worry so much?

Karma can be like a boomerang.

Elle, in last frame is saying: ‘Just as I thought’ ! ! ! !

I still believe parents might be better off if they introduced their kids to beer and wine well before the kids go off the try it on their own and do it wrong. However, I’m not a parent, so there is that.

Ah, Michael. You think you’re being funny, but you’re really not helping your case here. ;-)

Here we had a beer called Regal Select. 99 cents for a six pack. It tasted like selected p*ss

Legal drinking age in Canada?

Where I went to college, freshmen had their own dorms; and were pretty heavily supervised. When one got to upperclass dorms, there was a bit more freedom.

You’re not reassuring your mother, Michael.

When one of our kids was headed off to college – at age 16 – he said “don’t worry mom, I won’t drink and drive”…

He does enjoy winding her up with his one liners. Maybe his leaving isn’t such a bad thing at all.

Get out of here, Michael, with your creepy de-formed head..

Polka Time:

In Heaven there is no beer

That’s why we drink it here

And when we’re gone from here

All our friends will be drinking all that beer

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

In Heaven there is no beer

That’s why we drink it here

And when we’re gone from here

All our friends will be drinking all that beer

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

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Why the face, Elly? If John had said that, you’d be cracking up! He leaves in a month and you’re still in “Screw You Mike” mode?

BOOOOOO HISSSSSS!

Fear of God and threatening to stop payment on his tuition check should slow down the foolishness.

And that’s how Michael was conceived.

Michael just turned into his dad.

Sometimes the experiments are successes, Elly. As Lawrence also would tell you. :-)

“They party. They experiment. They do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do. "

Oh, Elly. Your son is going to be a lush and it is going to be something he would ordinarily do.

Don’t worry. He will be back for very regular laundry days.

I find it really hard to believe any teenager would say something like that to his mom, especially when she’s telling him she’s worried.

FDR did make the Nude Eel. On the other hand, if FDR was in Canada, then the Enjos would have been marched off to an internment camp.