Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The world has watched the Patterson family grow up in real time, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!
Parents and children alike will relate to the obstacles that the Patterson family faces. Curfews, parent date nights, babysitting, pets and distractions are all hurdles that the Pattersons must overcome in order to enjoy each other as a family. They face the same obstacles that real life families do, which is what makes them so loveable.
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templo SUD said, 4 months ago
Seriously, what’s the difference between 25¢ Canadian and 25¢ US?
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
Time to quit if you are that poor.
The Mixer said, 4 months ago
@templo SUD
The Canadian quarter has a portrait of the Queen on one side and a a head-shot of a caribou on the other side. The American quarter has somebody else on the “heads” side and something else on the “tails” side.
Aside from that, as of the close of the currency markets Thursday, a Canadian quarter is worth about half-a-cent more than an American quarter.
templo SUD said, 4 months ago
The ½¢ difference is I needed to know. Thanks. (Sooner or later, the Canadian [and UK as well as other Commonwealth currencies] will change to Charles or William.)
howtheduck said, 4 months ago
I miss those old table-top video games. However, I don’t miss jokes like this which imply people who play video games are stupid.
BenderSastre said, 4 months ago
Stupid, no. Could be putting their time to better use, probably.
Robert Nowall
said, 4 months ago
I never got over the Canadian dime I got that could be picked up with a magnet…
frugalnotcheap said, 4 months ago
@Robert Nowall
What year did it have stamped on it? I remember having a few steel pennies; was told they were from WW2.
lightenup
said, 4 months ago
As long as it’s okay if Elly is “a little sloppy around the middle” too, that’s fine.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
Lynn’s Notes:
Looking back at these strips, I can see exactly when they were done by the kinds of things I slotted into the background. In this scene, John and Ted are having a chat over lunch, and rather than draw two talking heads, I put them in a bar. In an effort to be up to date, I showed them playing one of the latest table-top video games. Strange… I recently found one of these covered in dust in an “antique” shop!
jim12345 said, 4 months ago
He has a friend in need ??
sbwertz said, 4 months ago
@frugalnotcheap
Steel pennies were 1943. I know because it was the year I was born and I thought it was special that “my” pennies were different.
keltii said, 4 months ago
@templo SUD
better be William,, Charles’s ears won’t fit on the coin!
prrdh said, 4 months ago
@frugalnotcheap
You can pick up most Canadian coins minted from about 1968 on with a magnet; those worth less than a dollar are mainly steel, while the loonie is mainly nickel, which is also ferromagnetic.
U.S. nickels are actually only 25% nickel (the rest is copper) and so don’t respond to magnets.
Because of wartime copper shortages, U.S. cents were minted in steel in 1943.
ossiningaling said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
We used to play one of those games (Commotion) after we got off work – in 1977!