For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 07, 2010

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    bald  almost 14 years ago

    elly, you still look pretty good for having 3 kids,

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    Allison Nunn Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    I agree, bald 716!!! (except at this point she had only had two of them….) but not being a gym rat and spending her time with the children instead, she is in great shape!

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    cdward  almost 14 years ago

    ^I’ve seen a lot younger women who’ve never had kids yet don’t look that good.

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    Yukoneric  almost 14 years ago

    Why some of us don’t go to the pool any more.

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    puddleglum1066  almost 14 years ago

    Could be worse… it could be yellow with polka dots:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-wUKmlbyDQ

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    poohbear8192  almost 14 years ago

    Mr. Paul Jones just told me some shocking information that we all need to know.

    Elly’s success would be just fine if it weren’t for the fact that tomorrow Ellly gets kidnapped by the Vogons to be used as as the subject for a worst poetry competition and John has to listen to Marvin the Robot recite all of his 42 volume autobiography.

    Paul reminded me that these old strips are just boring and rehash the same old themes. He doesn’t know why anybody reads them anymore.

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    kittylover2  almost 14 years ago

    Suck in that tummy and stand up straight it would make all the difference in the world. Also undo your hair and let it hang free. Ya now it all looks good!

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    coffeeturtle  almost 14 years ago

    …one-piece…

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    Iwa Iniki  almost 14 years ago

    …….or just wear your birthday suit.

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    lightenup Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Is Elly talking about the swim suit or her skin? (I’m also a woman with 2 kids and plenty of saggy skin, so that’s more of a empathizing joke rather than a slam…)

    LOL, poohbear!!

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    kfaatz925  almost 14 years ago

    You go, just for trying, Elly! I have no kids and still wouldn’t dare put on a bikini. ;)

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    Gretchen's Mom  almost 14 years ago

    Woman to woman, Elly …

    Whether your belly paunch is caused by too much food, too much beer or too many kids … I’m sorry but absolutely nobody wants to see that at the pool or beach!

    Situations like this is what they make 1-piece bathing suits for!!! Much as I hate to admit it, my bikini-wearing days ended longer ago than I’d like to admit; thanks to time, age, and gravity, it eventually happens to pretty much all of us at some point. You may try it on at home to see if it still fits but please, save yourself the embarrassment and invest in a cute, black 1-piece bathing suit with a little flowing skirt that disguises the butt and belly as much as possible like I did!

    Now if only we could invent something more flattering for men to wear who have the same belly flab problems! Something else no one really wants to see either!!!

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    myming  almost 14 years ago

    ^ i agree.

    some men just don’t seem to care what they look like.

    as long as they have $ they will attract the “sweet young things”… (sweet young things - sign the pre-nup !)

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    RinaFarina  almost 14 years ago

    @poohbear8192; yes, the same themes, generation after generation, the fundamental themes of living in families, raising children, etc. that each new generation has to deal with all over again. And you know what? What one generation has learned does not get transmitted automatically to the next generation. So that’s why new people can enjoy reading old comics.

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    Coyoty Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Don’t trust that bikini any more.

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    CeeC  almost 14 years ago

    Elly, Woman to woman,

    I think you look fine. As long as “you” feel good in the bikini then it doesn’t matter what others might think. If it comes to a time where other people ‘don’t want to see that’. They can look a different direction.

    Love the skin your in.

    (And I say the same to scary overweight guys too.)

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