For Better or For Worse Comic Strip, February 10, 2013 on GoComics.com

templo SUD said, 4 months ago

typical

legaleagle48 said, 4 months ago

Indeed. By the way, I finally figured out what “SUD” stands for. It’s “Santos de los Últimos Días” (“Latter-Day Saints” in Spanish), right? :)

pouncingtiger said, 4 months ago

Nice curve ball, kids.

Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

Lynn’s Notes:
In Vancouver during the 50’s, there was a popular children’s radio show called, “Kiddie’s Carnival.” It was done in a small studio with a live audience, which you could be part of by writing into the program and asking for tickets. It was first write, first serve. My mom managed to score two of them. Not only did she and I have tickets, but we were told that I would get to be one of the children allowed to say “hello” on Kiddie’s Carnival radio!

It was an exciting day. I had never been in a radio station before and when it was my turn to go up to the microphone, I was terrified. The host was reassuring. He moved the big silver microphone right under my nose and said, “Lynn, it’s your turn to say hello! Who would you like to say hello to today?” Meanwhile, my dad was at work. He had the radio on and everyone in Shores Jewellery was listening. Sweating and shaking, I leaned into the mic. and said, “Hello, Grandma and Grandpa!” Dad was crushed. He had expected me to say hello to him. I wasn’t thinking. I just blurted out the first thing that came to mind. When he got home later that evening, it was clear that I had let him down. Mom thought it was nice that I had thought of her parents, though, and decided to call them and ask what they thought of the broadcast. Sadly, they hadn’t been listening. To this day, I think about that missed opportunity and I wish that I’d acknowledged the one person to whom it really mattered.

Darren Parr said, 4 months ago

Lynne, does that one missed opportunity cancel out all the times you and your Dad hugged, and told each other – face to face, eye to eye – that you love each other?

jim12345 said, 4 months ago

What a let down !!!!!! 8^(

Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

re: night-gaunt

every time one goes on radio, the heart pounds for the first five or ten minutes even after the interview has begun, and you keep hoping you got everything prepared.

Only once been interviewed about a book on TV, but nervous is the word.