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1. 

   SchmoozeMinkey said, 3 months ago

   You’re right. I forgot about Ted.

2. 

   Gweedo Murray said, 3 months ago

   They both got it bad but wont admit it.

3. 

   yyyguy said, 3 months ago

   hey gweedo. is that your actual photo? i had put my own up as an avatar when i first signed in here, but changed it when i got bored looking at myself.

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   howtheduck said, 3 months ago

   Hey, Lynn. The Lockhorns called and they want their strip back.

5. 

   burgundytoo said, 3 months ago

   But which one is better off?????

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   Silverpearl said, 3 months ago

   Ted’s mother should have pushed him out of the nest a looooooog time ago.

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   prasrinivara said, 3 months ago

   How about you try that (Ted’s “advice” as per you in first panel) to the office John?

   Or, better yet, join CF-Reserves and try applying that for muster-parade?

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   Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

   Elly’s being too kind. Ted is much worse than an idiot. He’s a total jerk.

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   DavidBugea said, 3 months ago

   I understand that the lead times for comics are measured in weeks, but with the horrors of what just happened in Pittsburgh, somehow the story of a socially inept bachelor like Ted just doesn’t seem funny…

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    pibfan868 said, 3 months ago

    DavidBugea, most of these are OLD strips, from the 70’s just getting a re-run now. Lynn retired the strip as a whole a few years ago and is just reworking some of them.

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    shadowwriter said, 3 months ago

    what happened in pittsburgh? i hate watching the news so i don’t.

12. 

    ninmas said, 3 months ago

    john is better off.

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    DavidBugea said, 3 months ago

    pibfan868, I know that these are old strips…what I’m saying is that the timing of this particular strip’s reappearance is sadly ironic.

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    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    john should get some new friends , preferably married ones to hang around with

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    What happened in Pittsburgh that relates to this strip line?

    Aren’t those pants John is caressing supposed to be green?

16. 

    MaxStarmanJones said, 3 months ago

    John, I wouldn’t let my wife judge my friends – Bachelor and idiot? Of course, HER best friend is Connie. She makes Ted look like a saint and a scholar.

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    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    John accepting advice from Ted???
    A smart man knows better than to take advice on any subject from a failure in that subject. It doesn’t matter if it’s advice about “handling” your wife from a jerk like Ted or financial advice from someone who’s lost everything because of his own stupidity, one listens to the successful person, not the fool.

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    Head said, 3 months ago

    To Shadowwriter and Summerdog:

    There was a single man in Pittsburgh who hadn’t had a date since 1984. He opened fire on an aerobics class filled with women, in Pittsburgh. I forget how many women were injured and killed. Whats even worse, he was blogging about doing it for around a year before he actually did it.

19. 

    Hoomi said, 3 months ago

    Always amazes me how many people who have never maintained a successful marriage want to give advice to those of us who are already enjoying one.

20. 

    FishStix said, 3 months ago

    Such drama over a simple comic strip! Maybe the real news would be a relief…

21. 

    arsmall said, 3 months ago

    I love it!!! The drama, the advice, the wisdom…keep it coming folks!

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    prasrinivara said, 3 months ago

    JanC, there are two things even worse than taking advice on an issue from one who has failed on it

    
    

    taking advice from one who has not even tried.
    taking advice from the failure or nontryer and then passing it on to someone else as if it is a wisdom-pearl!

    
    

23. 

    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    Thanks, Head.

    Very sad story.

24. 

    jmworacle said, 3 months ago

    Point to John…….

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    AndiJ said, 3 months ago

    Wish I could say (stuff) about my husbands friend, but I don’t. He also doesn’t sit around telling my husband he’s henpecked!
    
    John does need some married friends….He might see how good he really has it! ;)

26. 

    bogeydog said, 3 months ago

    sometimes the comments are better than the stip…………………

    but it’s still my favorite strip- repeats or not

27. 

    redsheri said, 3 months ago

    And once again, John is digging his own grave…

28. 

    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    Well, did you folks know that Lynn Johnston stopped drawing this strip sometime ago and these are just repeats now?

    By the way, I have the “Ned Tanner” character “doll” which the Patterson’s son, Michael, put in the window when he was in college.

29. 

    Coffee-Turtle said, 3 months ago

    John, we rest our case!

30. 

    Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago

    John, do not listen or take the advices what Ted talks about. All you do is “be yourself!”

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    Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

    Oh no did he say something other than that John is whipped? I guess his idea of a perfect marriage is where the man does the whipping. He wouldn’t have a clue about how a real marriage works, with give and take and respect on both sides. Too bad, not Norman, your loss!

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    snakemama said, 3 months ago

    I love John’s expression in the last panel…he knows he has it good with Elly. Elly might complain and John tease, but love is the backbone of this marriage. Ted knows he can’t compete with a good marriage

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    Has anyone ever wondered whether perhaps NotNormal *is* a boy? Like, 10 or 11? It would account for the perceived maturity level. Perhaps he’s just a bored, lonely little kid who gets his giggles fooling grownups into assuming he’s an adult. Whatever his age, he’s obviously been ill-reared, and consequently feels that bad attention is better than no attention. This would suggest a potentially effective method of dealing with him.

34. 

    hildigunnur said, 3 months ago

    please take the advice from the day before - don’t feed the trolls!

    don’t answer him, don’t mention him, don’t nothing…