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   templo SUD said, 6 months ago

   Oh, the child’s interpretation of “pin cushion.”
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   pouncingtiger said, 6 months ago

   Kids DO the darnedest things.
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   GreggW said, 6 months ago

   I hope she remembers this when she’s teaching elementary school.
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   lightenup said, 6 months ago

   Yes, they’ll definitely be able to find them there. What a pain in the butt! ;-)
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   newworldmozart said, 6 months ago

   Thus Elly learns not to leave certain things down, and After the spanking, Lizzy learns not to touch mommy’s things. That’s how it worked in my house.
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   P Partridge said, 6 months ago

   @lightenup

   I prefer the term “rectalgia”
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   sleeepy2 said, 6 months ago

   There goes John, sticking his foot in his mouth agai- oh wait! A new topic!
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 6 months ago

   Elly shouldn’t leave needles where a small child could get to them anyway.
   Very careless.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   Lynn’s Notes:
   Our old chesterfield became the repository for all kinds of flotsam – some of it dangerous, like matches and needles. I was always careful to work my fingers into all the crevices before declaring it bounce-worthy. Here’s a story my dad told us: A friend of his once stepped on a small needle. It went so far into his foot that he couldn’t get it out. He left it there and forgot about it. A number of years later, he found a bump on his knee and when he scratched it, out came the needle! Is this possible? I don’t know! Maybe someone out there can tell me.
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    brewwitch said, 6 months ago

    @SUSAN NEWMAN

    Oh, C’mon, Susan. This is a comic strip. Leave your judgement at the door and enjoy the moment. Of course it was a careless thing to do with a toddler running around the house, but the point is how Elly learns her mother lessons.
    
    If you are looking for a comic strip about how to be a politically correct mother in 2012, then there are other places you might want to try. If you are looking for a classic comic strip about the joys and sorrows of a family as it grows from day to day, then sit back and enjoy the show.
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    oldman2013 said, 6 months ago

    that’ll help her to remember where she left them
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    wroady said, 6 months ago

    I agree with you Brewwitch, I was under the impression that comic strips were meant to bring a brief moment of humor into life. That by their very name and definition they shouldn’t even be taken seriously, much less compulsively obsessed over and judged as proper or lacking.
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    angusdad said, 6 months ago

    I believe that Lynn lives in the real world, not the sanitized version that so many people think we need. If you have two kids and a life, it’s not always possible to make things 100% safe. You just do your best.
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    angusdad said, 6 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    I believe it is possible. My mother had a metal sliver go in her foot and a couple of years later it came out in the opposite side of her foot.
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    route66paul said, 6 months ago

    My great aunt swallowed a golden needle in Ireland around 1900. In 1963, she felt a sharp pain on a San Francisco trolley – she was taken to the hospital and it was found. point out trying to make its way through the ab wall.
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