For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston
- July 30, 2009
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Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The world has watched the Patterson family grow up in real time, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!
Parents and children alike will relate to the obstacles that the Patterson family faces. Curfews, parent date nights, babysitting, pets and distractions are all hurdles that the Pattersons must overcome in order to enjoy each other as a family. They face the same obstacles that real life families do, which is what makes them so loveable.
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GrinsToYa said, 3 months ago
Yes! And they’re clean.
Ronshua
said,
3 months ago
Comfort seats you don’t have to chase a key .
SchmoozeMinkey said, 3 months ago
Are you planning on going there soon? :o))
Avolunteer said, 3 months ago
just the age for “potty talk”! I can well imagine many wondering the same thing!(do you even have to “go” up/down there?) Maybe the difference between Heaven & Hedouble hockey sticks is simply that heaven has them, the other place doesn’t…..
Silverpearl said, 3 months ago
We will find out when we get there. Whichever!!
Macushlalondra
said,
3 months ago
This question never occurred to me. I’ve been too busy arguing the question of whether our beloved pets will be with us in heaven. I say of course they will but the cat haters say no way.
Doctor Toon
said,
3 months ago
In heaven you can.
In the other place you can’t, ever.
diggitt said, 3 months ago
In heaven you don’t have to. In hell, you never stop.
serenasakitty said, 3 months ago
It wouldn’t be much of a heaven if there were no animals there. I don’t want to go if I can’t have my pets.
Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago
I figure that by the time I die, there will be a whole herd of my former cats and dogs, and that will be heaven.
WyattMute said, 3 months ago
If there is, then I only want to use them when I feel like it. Totally optional ; )
algurka
said,
3 months ago
If there are flowers and butterflies in Heaven, then you have to have birds, which means pets should be there too.
On the other end of the spectrum, you’re up to your lips in do-do and hoping nobody makes waves. Hence, no working toilets down below.
Comic-Nut said, 3 months ago
Yup, toilets in heaven and all the bleeep falls down to earth.
1Username said, 3 months ago
Naw, God uses the do-do to make politicians and bank CEOs.
Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago
In heaven, there have a potty? I don’t think so! LOLs!
yyyguy
said,
3 months ago
if you don’t think it would be heaven without your pets, i would imagine they’d be with you if you went there.
for those who hate animals, i imagine that your heaven would be pet free.
in my case, i have no idea what heaven would bring - and i hope to avoid finding out for a long, long time.
kab2rb said, 3 months ago
People you need to go to church or talk to a pastor. Pets don’t go to heaven. Only our heavenly body’s do. Just think no more pain or ailments. Me I am not ready.
Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago
Well, it is prophesied in the book of Isaiah that the lion shall lay down with the lamb and a child shall lead them.
I believe that animals will be in heaven, too. We had a stray dog adopt us when I was in the 9th grade. We called him “Bob” because his tail was cut short and he was blind in one eye.
He caught rabbits and squirrels and brought them to our back door while they were still alive. We were poor and didn’t have money to buy enough food when Dad was ill.
Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago
When Jesus rose from the dead, his body was flesh and bones and it was still that way when he went up to heaven.
And Jesus ate regular food, too, after he was resurrected.
As far as bathrooms in heaven, I would have told the boys that if they are needed, they will be there, too.
Coffee-Turtle
said,
3 months ago
The best place on Earth is… Earth! :-)
Animals, nature, human relationships! You don’t even have to die to get there!
Just need all the bad tenants evicted…
kittylover2 said, 3 months ago
1 Username, very, very funny post, I laughed out loud and keep going back to it. Thanks!!!!
comixavier said, 3 months ago
And I’m sure there are bathrooms in hell too. The clogged, overflowing kinds. No matter how much you use the plunger and jiggle the lever, your “business” won’t go down. ^__^ lol
4deerinmyyard
said,
3 months ago
Macushla, Serena, Burgundy, Algurka, Wiseguy, Joe Allen: Well, given Heaven, OF COURSE our critter-families will go to Heaven! How could it be heavenly without them? In fact, I’m hoping even my critter-neighbors (Jane Doe and her fawns, see sketch to left; I never manage to get to the camera in time) will be there.
Coffee-Turtle, I’m with you, probably.
Kab2rb, I don’t suppose it has crossed your mind that different spiritual leaders at different places of worship might give different answers to this and other questions, or that some people manage to live ethically superior lives without supernatural intervention of any flavor. Or that it’s hubritic to presume to give others spiritual instruction unasked.
jestrfyl said, 3 months ago
This sounds like a Confirmation Class kind of question. It made me think of Kenny Chesney’s “Everybody Wants to Go to Heave, But Nobody Wants to Go Now”. Another line I like is “everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die to get there.”
catlady1
said,
3 months ago
I know my animals will be waiting for me when I cross the Rainbow Bridge. The Bible says God is Love. What loves more unconditionally than a pet?
Re bathrooms in Heaven - yes. He** is the absence of them.
4deerinmyyard
said,
3 months ago
And having to use leaves.
And all the leaves are poison ivy.
Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago
Re: church and pastors saying pets don’t go to heaven:
It seems kinda funny then, that once a year, one of the big cathedrals downtown has a special pet blessing ceremony - people bring their dogs, cats, hamsters, parrots, all manner of pets to be blessed.
JanCinVV
said,
3 months ago
The Bible is silent on the subject of pets in Heaven, so we can speculate all we want. It would be nice to know my pets will be waiting for me there, but I’m not going to base my theology on it. We’ll know soon enough.
Macushlalondra
said,
3 months ago
I can’t ask my pastor or any of the pastor’s I’ve known since they all hate cats. They’re some of the ones who say no way. But I have two cats waiting for me on the rainbow bridge now and probably more to come if the Lord tarries. If it turns out I’m wrong about this I’ll accept it but I sure hope the Lord allows us to have the pets with us who were such a comfort to us here on earth.
johnparadox said, 3 months ago
In Heaven there is no beer
That’s why we drink it here….
4deerinmyyard
said,
3 months ago
Hey, Macush: “If you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto Me.” So happy purring, and don’t sweat it.