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   John Pike said, 3 months ago

   “Sayings” are learned one at a time.
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   howtheduck said, 3 months ago

   I can see Lizzie’s problem. She is probably wondering why Michael’s nose is not drawn in its usual oval shape.
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   James said, 3 months ago

   Actually, based on the storyline so far, she messed up by explicitly planning for what Michael was supposed to do when she was going to be late. She assumed he’d go to a neighbor’s place but she didn’t actually tell this to Michael or to any particular neighbor. This isn’t Michael’s problem, this is his Mom’s.
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   psychlady said, 3 months ago

   Uh, oh. This could get interesting!
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 3 months ago

   I wasn’t happy when my mother went back to work, either—not that she gave a damn how I felt.
   But this was in the ’50’s when girls had to wear skirts/dresses to school, and I had to go to a neighbor’s instead of home where I could change into my comfy jeans.
   That’s the real reason I had to whine and cajole my parents into giving me my own house key (which my mother attached to my coat pocket via a long ribbon).
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Lynn’s Notes:
   Expressions like “nose out of joint” are a natural lead in to a punch line. Any time I work with blossoming cartoonists, I discourage them from using an expression like this unless they plan to take advantage of it. As a reader, I expect a smart comeback and I am disappointed when the expression is left to die on the vine!
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   Kab Buch said, 3 months ago

   my mom never considered working after she had sister and me. She still kept talking as if she still worked at the place. When we got older she did find a job then complained how hard it was. We just told her to quit then.
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   NightShade09 said, 3 months ago

   Considering the endless stream of comments carping about Elly’s clothes, posture, cooking, mothering, I have to wonder —
   Why do you guys READ THE STRIP?
   Are you really just complaining about your own mothers?
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   Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

   @NightShade09

   It has been my opinion for some time that the people who spend so much time complaining about this strip have issues and are reading their own personal issues into the strip
   

   
   This comic always portrayed realistic people in realistic situations
   

   
   Real people have flaws, but not a single character in this strip is as flawed as certain posters make them out to be
   

   
   I tend to suspect it is the flaws of the people posting that are the problem, can you say “projection”?
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    rhsasl said, 3 months ago

    luv this strip, quit your bitching, whining and moaning, don’t read it if you don’t like it :(
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    sundogusa said, 3 months ago

    Lizzie grows up to be a teacher, Mike grows up to be a writer and marries Deanna, and Farley dies saving Lizzie from teh flooding river!
    There! Now some of you complainers don’t have to read teh strip any more! I just gave the whole strip away!
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    JanCinLV said, 3 months ago

    @sundogusa

    That might have worked if you had your stories straight. It was April rescued, not Lizzie.
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    annamargaret1866 said, 3 months ago

    @sundogusa

    And April came along. Not in real life though.
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    msmaddog01 said, 3 months ago

    Read this strip a couple of years ago when.. Michael is married, Elizabeth is grown and about to be married or at least engaged..and there’s a new baby girl Can’t remember name? new dog etc, etc, Mike is still friends with Lawrence…then all of a sudden we were back to beginnings..irritating but oh well.
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    msmaddog01 said, 3 months ago

    Thanks for bringing me back up to speed on baby name (April), who Mike marries, Farley’s feat rescuing April…..I knew I wasn’t the only one who remembered old strip.
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