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   OpenWings said, 2 months ago

   Way to shove the boot into your own gob again John! Alas, will you never learn?!? ^_^

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   Margueritem said, 2 months ago

   Oink, oink, John…..

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   Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

   That chick in the chair needs to find a new doc.

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   Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

   OpenWings said

   Way to shove the boot into your own gob again John! Alas, will you never learn?!?

   No, he never did, which is why he and Lynn are divorced.

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   cthulhusgirl said, 2 months ago

   hmmm… he’s not wearing gloves….. gross ><

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   Macushlalondra said, 2 months ago

   He just ticked off his lady patient who is probably a housewife like Elly.

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   ejcapulet said, 2 months ago

   Looks like a certain dentist is going to lose a finger.

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   algurka said, 2 months ago

   Not wearing gloves? That’s okay, he washed his hands before he went to the bathroom. Or, at our local Papa John’s pizza, it doesn’t matter, because they wear the same disposable gloves when they’re making pizza, making change at the cash register (handling all that dirty money), returning to make more pizzas, ring up more sales and taking cash/making change, etc ad nauseum. Guess they keep that nasty flour off their hands so at the end of the day, when they finally take their gloves off, their hands are nice and clean.

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   pointy_stick said, 2 months ago

   Some of these are sure dated now. It just doesn’t have any of the punch that it would have had during it’s original run.

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    Rmom said, 2 months ago

    Michael’s in school, but what about Lizzy?

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    BlitzMcD said, 2 months ago

    John would certainly be singing a different tune if that had happened in 2009 instead of the 1970s. Elly would probably be working out of sheer economic necessity (bookstore or otherwise) and he would no doubt welcome the extra income (dental practice notwithstanding).

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    EarlWash said, 2 months ago

    Hey, pointy_stick, if you recognize these to be dated, maybe you are too?

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    krusher2 said, 2 months ago

    John wasn’t always this way. But now that Lynn is re-doing the story line, she’s putting some of her own failed-marriage issues into it. Too bad cuz old John was a nice and witty guy - not chauvenistic as Lynn is now trying to portray him.

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    lightenup said, 2 months ago

    The lady in the chair should “accidently” bite him.

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    Comic-Nut said, 2 months ago

    Fairportfan says’s John and Lynn are divorced?
    It is John and Elly. Is Lynn’s husband a dentist?
    Never read anywhere the public reason for the actual divorce.

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    SillyStuff said, 2 months ago

    Hey, my ex fit right in with this attitude.

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    imrobert said, 2 months ago

    Um, it seems to me Lynn’s husband took up with his dental hygentist - I could be mistaken.

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    There are things you just dont say, and that is one of them.
    Algurka, that is just nasty.

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    kab2rb said, 2 months ago

    I am wondering when I will start recognizie the past strips?

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    MisngNOLA said, 2 months ago

    Dentist has no gloves, but patient appears to have a dental dam in place, one of those nasty things they put in your mouth so that you taste nothing but latex for the entire procedure.

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    summerdog said, 2 months ago

    It was made public at FBORFW at one time, that the reason for the divorce was that Lynn’s husband wanted it because he fell in love with a younger woman. I don’t know who the woman is. Anyone know?

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    howtheduck said, 2 months ago

    Today’s reprint was originally run before the reprint from yesterday. My guess at the reason for the change is so that John’s dental assistant Jean Baker would appear to have gotten the idea of Elly’s working from Elly. In the original order from 1980, Jean Baker seems to be making a statement that a woman with 2 children at home is allowed to be at home while a woman with only one child at home should be working.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 2 months ago

    John should have his license revoking because he did not do the right thing like not wearing latex gloves, covering the mask over his mouth and etc… whatever!

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    dianecliff said, 2 months ago

    Regarding licensing and hygiene, dentists didn’t always wear gloves. No gloves, no maskes, etc. When I was growing up the dentist walked in and washed his hands… it wasn’t protocol as it is now. These are old strips.

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    comixavier said, 2 months ago

    That thing over the patient’s mouth, what does it do when the dentist is working on you? He/she already has the bib for crying out loud.

    You’d better just watch yourself, John, with that remark.

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    Susan001 said, 2 months ago

    RRAmom, Annie offered to watch Lizzie while Elly was working.

    I never liked Elly before, and now, I HATE John!

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    snakemama said, 2 months ago

    step 1–open mouth
    step 2–insert foot (or in this case, leg)
    step 3–chew well
    step 4–repeat until brain kicks in (or wife does)

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    BlitzMcD said, 2 months ago

    I have to concur with krusher2 about the revisionist history. Changing the strips to vent is extremely unfair and discriminatory. Whereas I understand Lynn’s plight, nonetheless to vent in this manner makes the male of the species live down to all the negative stereotypes.

    Now imagine the howls of indignation if Elly’s character had been “revised” in that manner. Double standard, indeed…..

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    Rmom said, 2 months ago

    I do notice that divorced people are often the most bitter about the opposite sex. It seems that all they see are the flaws, and never any of the positives. My memory isn’t good enough to know for sure that these are revisionist history, but I’ve read FBOFW for a long time, and these do show John in a much more negative light than I remembered.

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    Wolfdreamer250 said, 2 months ago

    Krusher2 and anyone else. This is an original 1970’s early 80’s.. John at that time did think that way. This is 100% accurate of his thought process at the time. It was only around when Elizabeth got to school age that he began to mellow and stop being a chauvinist.

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    Mouko said, 2 months ago

    It seems to be a bit of a lost cause at this point. No matter how many times people point out that this is NOT a revised strip but rather an ORIGINAL, people still insist on accusing Lynn of changing things in order to make John look bad!

    Looks like John’s not the only one who enjoys the taste of his own foot!

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    howtheduck said, 2 months ago

    Mouko,

    True enough about it being a lost cause.

    Back in 1980, Lynn Johnston lived in Lynn Lake, Manitoba; which was Rod Johnston’s home town. She hated the place and she took it out on Rod through her comic strip character of John Patterson, whose similarity to Rod could not be mistaken. When Rod finally agreed to move, the character of John Patterson became much nicer. This is the John Patterson most of the people remember; so they are surprised to see that this was not the way he started.

    When Lynn reprints these strips, she is not changing things to make John look bad. She was doing them that way in the first place, to make John look bad. There is hatred there, but not post-divorce hatred.