For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 20, 2021

Mom thinks that Michael is hot??? Now that’s just weird!!

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That was worded weirdly

Me thinks that this was first posted during the summer. :)

Maybe when you get old you can revert back to those actions, but unfortunately I doubt it. Plus you would make everyone puke.

Unless you’re having a beachside picnic whilst in your trunks, what choice do you have?

As for Michael, No shirt, No shoes, No dinner.

Hmm…Mike? Bare chested while wearing jeans and SOCKS? I’ve never understood why guys do such a thing. If going topless, as well go in gym shorts and barefoot or sandals. And don’t 16-year-olds have some chest hair? Both my boys had emerging chest hair at that age.

Aw Elle, Michael just wants to show off his “six pack”.;-D

Even for a snack by himself?

Years ago it was considered “cute“ or “funny“ to take pictures of your toddlers naked. It was inappropriate then, and it’s inappropriate now… Same thing applies to drawing naked children on the comics page. Lynn should have just skipped this one.

P3: Now when I was a kid. Mom was outnumbered 4 to 1 on nonsense like that.

I remember my little brother pulling that, but he sang Ray Steven’s “The Streak” while doing it! #GrowingUpInThe1970s

She thinks her son has a hot body? now that’s sick.

It’s kind of like what a buddy of mine and I said back in the day about Abercrombie and Fitch. If two A&F models stand outside a store shirtless, it’s called “working”, but if the two of us did it we’d be escorted off the premise by Mall security and told never to come back.

Yup, there is a fine line between bare and nude. Some congressmen know it when they see it.

Ellie is always in lecture mode.

Listen everyone you should be fully dressed at all times. If God had intended for us to walk around nude we would have been born that way.

Only babies to toddler’s can get away with it Michael.

I remember when it wasn’t unusual to see men driving cars with no shirt on all summer long.

OK, I read the last panel and interperted it as this….Elly is innocent, and means “hot” as in temperature. Mike recognizes that “hot” can mean something else entirely! He also recognizes the double stand his mom has. Sis nekked is cute, large son half nekked is not.

Yes. Different rules for different ages at different times. That’s life……

Always a rule at our table when I was a youngster

I remember when Ray Stevens sang The Streak. Look out Ethel!!!

nekked babies are “cute” Half nekked male teens OTOH, are not

The Comics Censor from PEARLS BEFORE SWINE would like a word with Lynn.

I myself didn’t like it, but my husband would always come to the table without a shirt in the summer.. (no AC), but he would holler at my kids if they wore a hat or put it on the table…..

I remember when I would see many men in those white, thin, cotton ribbed tank tops that were considered to be undershirts. I’d rather see them bare than in those tidy whities tops.

The mother is right!

It is creepy that they let a 18 month old girl run naked around her teenager brother. ICK!

We used to call them “Naked Baby!”

SHUT THE HELL UP, ELLY!!!Either that or go grab April and beat the tar out of her! God knows, your only joy in life seems to be draining it from everyone else’s!

This strip would likely be flagged as kiddie porn by Apple’s new proposed smartphone technology, and lead to the feds knockin’ at your door. Not that it should be… but that’s the slippery slope we’re entering!