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1. about 1 hour ago on For Better or For Worse

   There was this strip from the B.A. era (Before April):

   Pattersons go to Easter service

   Pastor: For God so loved the world, that he sent His only Son to die on the Cross for our sins. Today we celebrate the day when three days after the Crucifixion, He is risen. Hallejulah, Praise the Lord!

   Michael seems reflective on this glorious mystery

   Pastor: The service has ended. Let us go in peace to serve the Lord.

   Churchgoers exit

   Michael: Is church open every Sunday?

   Elly: Yes, Michael.

   Michael: Then how come we only come twice a year?

   John and Elly have shocked expressions on their faces

2. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   True. Elly is not asking herself “why does my baby boy have to suffer?” Rhetta was the unfaithful one and Michael told her to hit the highway. As for the tooth, John and Elly did offer to help out with that. The infection was nobody’s fault, it just happened.

3. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   There have been some cases with married couples where if one spouse dies, the other goes to pieces, feeling that their life has been taken away from them.

4. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Michael just became a no-woman man!

5. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Probably not. Last week’s strip had Michael talking to himself that he was going to “pick up the prescription”. That probably meant he had to get it at an apothecary.

6. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Close. The currency conversion as of today is that one Canadian dollar is equal to 69 American cents.

7. 4 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   When Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote 2001: A Space Odyessy was asked about HAL, he answered “It was not my decision to name the computer HAL, that was Stanley’s! My idea was to call the computer Athena, and it would have a feminine voice and personality. I don’t know why Mr. Kubrick made it HAL, but I have been apologizing to all men I ever met named Harold since then.”

8. 5 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Lynn Johnston was notorious for lacking backstory detail or character development. Examples include one-shot characters or people seen in a couple strips such as Janice, Dallas, Rhetta’s brother Lorne and Wesley D. Bates. One example was this strip about a friend of Michael’s who was only depicted in this strip (hardly a lasting friendship):

   Michael: Mom, can I borrow the car.

   Elly: Absolutely not, Michael. You do not have a license!

   Michael: I have a learner’s permit. The law says that I can drive so long as a licensed driver is a passenger.

   Michael introduced a slovenly teenager with piercings

   Michael: And my friend Arnie here has the night off.

9. 5 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   This sure is the polar opposite of the strip on prom night where he and Rhetta were passionately discussing their future together.

10. 5 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    Who could Deanna be?