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   4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

   Play gently with daddy. baby.

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   sjoujke said, 3 months ago

   Michael seems just a tad too happy, doesn’t he?

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   yyyguy said, 3 months ago

   yeah. it’s always the adults who get hurt playing with the kids. whoever said that “age and experience will destroy youth and skill, always” didn’t have enough experience or age.

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   Margueritem said, 3 months ago

   Love the look on Michael’s face.

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   Gweedo Murray said, 3 months ago

   From Fri. 8-21

   I seem to have gathered some frost over my note on a sudden empty nest. Please understand that I was not implying that they should get hit by a vehicle in order to satisfy a cruel ghoul desire. Maybe Elly meant that she could see an empty nest if they were to meet an untimely demise, ”under my wheels” *

   Alice Cooper *

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   4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

   Eh. Although maybe your comment was cryptic enough to be subject to misinterpretation, I doubt that anyone of good will and common sense jumped to the conclusion that you were advocating vehicular homicide of toddlers. Fret not.

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   dkram said, 3 months ago

   Always remember John, you asked for it.

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   hildigunnur said, 3 months ago

   for heaven’s sake, flightsuit, you don’t like the strip, don’t read it! And no, I’m not saying the moderators should have deleted your comment (didn’t see it, so don’t know how bad it was). I just can’t for my life understand why people bother to read and comment on something they dislike.

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   masnadies said, 3 months ago

   I’m with hildigunnur here- there are tons of comics out there. FBoFW is one of very very few that ever really make me laugh and usually makes me smile. Tons of people hate it, which is fine. We don’t have to like the same comics, or we’d all just read peanuts and not need comics.com. But I really don’t get forcing yourself to read comics you don’t like. And while I wouldn’t delete a comment stating to a certain comic’s fans that you hate what they like, I don’t see the point of it, either.

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    eatteaphonenome said, 3 months ago

    Wonder if Ellie taught here that?

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    Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

    Don’t feel bad flightsuit mine was deleted too and I have no idea why. Did I say something that offended someone?

    Lizzie’s stronger than she thinks. Look at Michael’s face in the last panel.

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    Allan Claus said, 3 months ago

    John is thinking “Crap! I can’t fix my own teeth! And I don’t want to bleed in front of the children!”

    Lizzy is thinking “I did good! Daddy got ball!”

    Mike is thinking “HA! HA! Sucks to be you daddy.”

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    kfaatz925 said, 3 months ago

    And I’m thinking, that ball looks like you’d use it for duckpin bowling. How heavy are we talking? ;)

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    Akenta said, 3 months ago

    Macushlalondra I think your comment was deleted because it didn’t say you were happy WildMustang wasn’t hurt, just the opposite. I’m glad you weren’t wishing anything bad to happen to anyone.

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    pearlandpeach said, 3 months ago

    unless “bad words” are used…leave the comments alone…poor taste shows up quick and I refuse to read comments in poor taste or just plain mean. After awhile, the poor taste/mean peoples remarks will never be read. We do catch on quick.

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    EarlWash said, 3 months ago

    John, never underestemate the power of a woman, even if she means no harm.

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    The_Ol_Goaler said, 3 months ago

    Sooner or later, ya play catch with your kids; you find out they’ve got a better arm than you!

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    so, goaler. do you wear the mask when you play catch with the kids?
    flightsuit, tell us what you really think. it’s just a comic!

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    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    flightsuit: We got it. You don’t like the strip. Now go away and leave it to those of us who do.

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    Machushla, I know why your post was deleted yesterday.

    Your last sentence (I think it was the last one) had a typo (or maybe a double negative in it) that, when you read it, it changed the meaning of your post from wishing Mustang well to wishing Mustang, ummmm….not well.

    No biggie. Well all knew what you meant. Except the person who flagged it.

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    Jogger2 said, 3 months ago

    What an arm! Is Lizzie going to grow up to be a pitcher?

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    I’m innocent! I did no flagging yesterday! Flightsuit is entitled to his/her opinion, whether or not I find it irritating to read.

    Macushlalondra - I did leave a comment suggesting you reread your comment - I’m sure it was a mistake. When I came back and found yours deleted, I deleted mine, since it no longer made sense.

    but I never done no flagging to nobody!

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    Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

    This reminds me of a wonderful segment on Tiny Toon Adventures:

    One of the Baby Plucky segments with Pkucky Duck in diapers and his dad.

    Dad takes Baby Plucky to play miniature golf. Sets down the ball, hands Plucky the putter, steps back.

    Says “Hit the ball, son.”

    Plucky winds up, hits a screaming line drive that hits a wall, bounces straight back, passes right over his head.

    Thud.

    Heartfelt moan of pain.

    Strained voice: “Congratulations, son. You’re going to be an only child.”

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    Ahem, and now back to our regular programming..

    Todays strip is priceless. Little ones sometimes just don’t know their own strength.

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    Carmy said, 3 months ago

    Burgundy2, sometimes the big ones don’t know the little one’s strength either.

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    Susan001 said, 3 months ago

    I love the proud expression on Lizzie in panel 2.
    She’s such a sweet, well-behaved toddler; no temper tantrums from her.

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    comixavier said, 3 months ago

    Uh… good thing it’s not a jai-alai or cricket ball; those things are about as hard as rocks! That’d REALLY hit John in the face and/or break his glasses.

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    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    at least john got hit in the face, my son threw a baseball and hit me a couple feet lower ( cringe )

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    lectrice said, 3 months ago

    JanCinVV, we aren’t going to go away.

    You want to know why? Because Lynn Johnston is being paid to do this comic. Not only that, she is being paid TWICE. She was paid 30 years ago for the original prints, and she’s being paid again today to reprint them, along with inserting some new material that really doesn’t add much to the old. I have no idea why any newspaper would be willing to pay twice for the same material, especially in this economy and besides, newspapers haven’t been doing well in a long time, not since people can read what they want online for free.

    Another reason is that the comics space in newspapers have been shrinking for years, and really, the comic strips that have outlived their creators (in some cases, decades!) and are reprinted over and over again needs to be chucked and some new cartoonists can be given the space. It’s not as if the old comics will fall into a black hole, never to be seen again. They have all been collected into collection books. Go buy those! It’ll be cheaper to, actually.

    Ah well, that last reason will pretty much be moot in about 20 or so years when there are no paper newspapers anymore.

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    thebird55 said, 3 months ago

    I thought Lynn had passed on and that is why the “classic” strips. I’m new here, and I have to wonder if flightsuit has read any of the more recent offerings. They did get much better. But I’ll read these… for better or for worse.

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    Letrice it seems you are concerned that Lynn is overpaid for these strips. Look at it from a commercial point of view. Gocomics puts up what they think we will like. How can they tell we like the comic strip? Best indication is the number of comments. Thank you for your contribution!

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    @Fairportfan ROFL

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    snakemama said, 3 months ago

    I can feel John’s pain…happened to me playing basketball once or twice, glasses and all.

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    Shikamoo said, 3 months ago

    Good thing John’s a dentist. Except, I guess he can’t work on his own mouth.LOL

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    rushfan3 said, 3 months ago

    I agree, LOVE the look on Michael’s face. He knew that one was going to happen. Hope John knows a great dentist, besides himself that is. :D

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    Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

    Thanks for those who explained why my comment from yesterday was deleted. It must’ve been a typo. I do the comics one of the first things in the morning and maybe I hadn’t had my coffee yet. I’d never wish bad for wildmustang, he’s a buddy of mine and one of the few people I followed when we could follow people. Thanks to those who gave me the benefit of the doubt. I wish all of you well even Not Norman who I’ve had words with now and then.

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    RinaFarina said, 3 months ago

    @Fairportfan; I rarely see anything that makes me even smile, and almost NEVER anything that makes me laugh. But the ending of your story about the golf player was completely unexpected (I was expecting the ball to hit his daddy’s head), and I burst out laughing! Thank you so much! You made my day!

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    RinaFarina said, 3 months ago

    From his/her comments I see now that @flightsuit is NOT one of them, but there are people who love to read things they hate so they can enjoy the pleasure of condemning them. The self-righteous type.

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    Where IS notnorman?