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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thebird55 said, 4 months ago
Those who can, do. And those who can’t, ………..
Randor said, 4 months ago
Anyways???
Gokie5 said, 4 months ago
@Randor
My primary-care physician, who appears to be quite bright in other respects, always says, “Lay down,” when she wants people to recline on the exam table. Argh.
Gokie5 said, 4 months ago
I know this is a comic strip, but it strikes me that John’s assitant, Jean, is being very non-professional when she says those l things about Dr. McCaulay in front of a patient. For all she knows, the patient could be a friend or relative of Dr. M, or repeat the asistant’s remarks to someone who is.
Gokie5 said, 4 months ago
Even if such were not true, the patient might feel ill at ease about a place where the staff gossiped about others within her hearing. What might they say about her in front of other patients?
Macushlalondra said, 4 months ago
If I were the patient I’d be joining in the conversation, especially this one. I really pity any family that used Ted as their cousellor.
Gokie5 said, 4 months ago
@Gokie5
Yeah, that’s true, but still . . .
What I’m really commenting on is, please disregard the errant “I” in the second line of my second comment.
goweeder
said, 4 months ago
@Gokie5
“My primary-care physician, who appears to be quite bright in other respects, always says, “Lay down,” when she wants people to recline on the exam table. Argh.”
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Wow!
you just hit on my #1 Pet Peeve. I have spent my entire life trying to educate people on the proper use of ‘lie,’ ‘lay,’ ‘laid’
and ‘lain." My success rate, so far, has been zero.
You can’t watch a crime show on TV without hearing, “We found her laying in a pool of blood.” It seems like every TV new anchor uses ‘lay’ when the proper word is ‘lie.’ It is ubiquitous — and impossible to change. I have thrown in the towel and admitted defeat.
But please, carry the battle forward.
And good luck with that.
Joan
said, 4 months ago
Maybe they are Laymen!
lightenup
said, 4 months ago
@goweeder
I’ll join your “lie vs. lay” crusade!! When my kids were in daycare, every single day they’d be told, “Lay down” at nap time. Ugh!!! I’m sure my kids thought I was nuts, but I’d tell them at home that it’s “lie down” and we’d go over the difference between the two.
I also correct them when they ask a question that ends with a preposition: “Where’s the ball at?”
And a personal annoyance is, “Go put that up”, which means “Go put that where it belongs”.
Sometimes living in the South drives me nuts…
michael pokrivnak said, 4 months ago
@lightenup
The south just has different idiomatic expressions that are one of the nice things about living there. Go to North East Mass. into a blue collar invironment and you will hear some strange things too. From a displaced New Englander.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 4 months ago
I’m assuming Dr. McCauley is Ted.
And I’m also assuming that he and Connie aren’t shacking up any more.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
Lynn’s Notes:
I have known a lot of medical folks through my job at McMaster University – just “the luck of the draw!” I once asked a psychiatrist friend from Hamilton, Ontario how many psychiatrists there were in the city and he replied, “Oh, 40 odd…. and two normal.” It was a funny line, but the more I got to know various docs, the more I wondered how hard it would be to counsel a patient when your own private life was completely out of hand!
summerdog said, 4 months ago
Good grief! Talk some more about unprofessional stuff in front of the patients, why don’t ya!
loves raising duncan said, 4 months ago
And John’s friend wonders why he can’t have a good relationship, maybe if he got that caveman stuff out his head and get into the late 20th century, he’d would have better luck.