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   mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

   I remember those days, seems like forever ago, although I am only 21. Sitting in alphabetical order, people getting held back. Good times….glad they are over.

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   Jeff Kirshner said, 2 months ago

   What are the odds that Mike will marry Deanna?

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   JosePeterson said, 2 months ago

   The odds are 1 in 1.

   If I’m not mistaken the For Better or for Worse comic strip started exactly 30 years ago today. Happy birthday!

   This also happens to be Nermal’s (from Garfield) 30th birthday

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   cymbol said, 2 months ago

   We never sat in alpha order, we sat shortest in front, tallest in back.

   How much time do we have to wait until April reappears? Wasn’t Elizabeth about 10 when she was born? That would make it about 2017…or there abouts.

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   Avolunteer said, 2 months ago

   Even in high school we had to sit alphabetically at least in home room, but also in many of our classes. It gets tiring to have to sit near the same people all the time year after year…..

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   masnadies said, 2 months ago

   I only had to sit alphabetically in calculus. I was too far back to see the blackboard and it was dark there, and I like to sit next to the door or I feel trapped. I fell asleep and even got a C once! If I were a teacher, no way I’d ever do alphabetical. There are reasons kids sit where they do.

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   Macushlalondra said, 2 months ago

   That’s not fair to make kids sit alphabetically. What if the kid whose last name starts with a W has a problem seeing the blackboard because of poor eyesight?

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   BlitzMcD said, 2 months ago

   Mike is just like that David Jones song, “Put Me Amongst The Girls”. He’s getting an early start!

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   Coffee-Turtle said, 2 months ago

   Mike, Yeah Right! LOL! :-D

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    howtheduck said, 2 months ago

    No, Mike, she didn’t move back because she missed you. She moved back because someone finally told Lynn Johnston that when she had Deanna move away last January in preschool, it was too early. Deanna didn’t leave the strip in the original story until Grade 4. There are some reprints coming up that would not make a lot of sense with Deanna gone.

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    pibfan868 said, 2 months ago

    We sat alphabetically in school and when I got bumped from the front of one row to the back of the next by someone new coming in, we finally found out I needed glasses! That also explained my headaches and stomach aches I’d had all year up to that point.

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    nocturnalcobra said, 2 months ago

    because of alphabetical order,the same girl sat in front of me for years.she wore thick glasses and braces.My junior year she showed up @ my house while I was mowing my lawn with no braces& contacts& told me she’d always had a crush on me.She was the most beautiful creation I have ever seen.It was the best summer of my life!

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    Nicole DuLace said, 2 months ago

    Isn’t it interesting how we hated having assigned seats in grade school, we always thought we should be able to sit where we wanted to whenever. Now that I’m in college, we sit in the same spot every day, sometimes by ppl we don’t even like! But we continue to sit there, as if we were trained that way or something!!

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    Yukoneric said, 2 months ago

    Even cartoonists suffer human frailties. Sad, but c’est la vie.

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    EarlWash said, 2 months ago

    My H.S. biology teacher, Don Bonamy, had us sit in order of our test result grades, the top grade level students closer to the front and graduating to the back. I was further back…waaaaayyy further back. Just too many long stupid Latin terms. NUTS!

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    Nicole DuLace said, 2 months ago

    I had a freshman science teacher do that and I was generally in one of the first five to eight chairs, but our class basically made it a contest! We STRUGGLED/FOUGHT over the first chair all the time! The flunkies, no offense Earl, made it a joke to see who got the last chair to mock us smarties! Jr High was so great!

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    Rmom said, 2 months ago

    Knowing the problems some kids have with eyesight, hearing, and concentration, sitting alphabetically doesn’t work well, except for the teacher when he/she is taking roll.

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    bald 716 said, 2 months ago

    in some classes you ( I ) sat in the back of the class if you were a mischief maker

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    Doctor Toon said, 2 months ago

    The only time I remember having to go in alphabetical order was gym class.
    I’m one of those people with a last name starting with ‘W’.
    Didn’t much care for sports, didn’t mind being last in that class.

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    Comic-Nut said, 2 months ago

    I am with bald on that last remark. Noted it in many a class.
    I always sat upfront, keener that I was ….

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    wilorg said, 2 months ago

    pibfan868! Great to see you off the Couch and checking out the Canuck way of life! Have some poutine….

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    MisngNOLA said, 2 months ago

    In my high school geometry class, Father Winterscheidt had us sit by test grades, only the best grade got to sit in the very back of class. By the end of the term there were two competitions going on. One to see who’d sit in the backmost chair, and the other to stay away from the frontmost chair. I think his method worked well because the geometrically challenged folks didn’t want that front seat so they studied harder. I was in the back chair for most of the term. Dunno why but geometry came easily to me.

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    Misng, thats a good idea actually, have the lower grades sit closer, so you can see if they are paying attention, and the higher grades farther back, because you know they are paying attention. However, being in college and being able to sit where I want, I’m always near the back, or closer to the door. It depends on where the teacher is in relation to me, I stay away from the teacher. That is an interesting point Nicole.

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    notinksanymore said, 2 months ago

    I was rather surprised to find out we have assigned seats in law school!

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    JanCinVV said, 2 months ago

    Nicole, I disagree. Jr. High was the pits. The only good thing about it was my school was 3 blocks from home so my brother and I got to go home for lunch sometimes.
    8th grade science was the worst. That’s where I was when Kennedy died.

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    PNmom06 said, 2 months ago

    in the last panel, Michael suddenly looks like adult Michael! LOL!
    
    And since Lynn has changed the Deanna storyline at this point, maybe she’ll change the later story, too! She might even drop April entirely, since she was the ficticious child anyway.

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    marvee said, 2 months ago

    April was the “ficticious child”? They’re all ficticious, but have become real to many of us. April was a surprise! Is Lynn actually changing the story? I wish they would give the original publishing date.

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    I think Lynn should keep April, and the rest of the family storyline, the way it was, but change some out of family story lines.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

    When I taught school and the students came to my classroom, I usually just let them choose where to sit and I made a seating chart based on where they sat.

    Go to the website link on this page http://www.fbofw.com and read how Lynn Johnston is doing these strips and using her classic ones while sort of updating them.

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    comixavier said, 2 months ago

    I don’t remember sitting in alphabetical order at all in preschool, kindergarten or elementary school. I just remember sitting close to the black-/whiteboard when I got into middle school, high school and community college for my eye-sight was a little bad.

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    CheekyWeeMonkeys said, 2 months ago

    Of course she moved back to be near you. She even left her family behind and moved all by herself!

    As for April being “fictitious” above the others, I think it just means that she didn’t have a counterpart in real life. Mike and Liz are loosely based on Johnston’s real life kids.

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    PNmom06 said, 2 months ago

    Marvee - Michael is based on Lynn’s son Aaron (Michael is his middle name); Elizabeth is based on Lynn’s Katie (Elizabeth is her middle name); “Ellie” is a tribute to Lynn’s childhood friend; “April” was based on nobody.

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    So, where is everyone from?

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    snakemama said, 2 months ago

    aawww, mike has a case of puppy love. It’s sweet that they get married and have a couple of rugrats of their own.

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    ComicDetectiveDA said, 2 months ago

    Oh no, Deanna’s back, what’s going to happen now?

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    Susan001 said, 2 months ago

    PNmom, if Lynn is changing the format of the strip, maybe April will drown in the stream and Farley will survive
    Something to think about, eh?

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    PNmom06 said, 2 months ago

    LOL!!!

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    Susan, maybe April wont go to the river in the first place, and Farley will die in his sleep? Its just something to think about, roll around in your head for a while.

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    Susan001 said, 2 months ago

    You mean that April will actually OBEY her parents?
    Awesome!

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    As a matter of fact Susan, yes, I do.

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    JosePeterson said, 2 months ago

    I’m from Frisco

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    madmarge said, 2 months ago

    JosePeterson said: “I’m from Frisco”

    I didn’t think any resident of San Fransisco ever refered to
    it as “Frisco”.