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   templo SUD said, 3 months ago

   don’t tell me we’re starting to get April already
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   ewalnut said, 3 months ago

   She must have been wearing a he11uva girdle in other recent strips.
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   TheSkulker said, 3 months ago

   It’s just an exaggeration for laughs
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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   @TheSkulker

   I agree! And everyone on here seems to think she should be a mix of supermodel, Martha Stewart and Mrs. Cleaver. It’s a comic, and have any of you taken a look around recently (or in the mirror)? Most everyone has some fat around the middle.
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   legaleagle48 said, 3 months ago

   @templo SUD

   Not until APRIL 2018. Have you forgotten why she was named April and how old the other kids were when she was born?
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Lynn’s Notes:
   Letters came from folks who really did not understand this gag. I’d hoped that the bulge in Elly’s stomach would convey the message. I mean…wasn’t it obvious that she was indeed putting “enough into it?” My editor seemed to understand, as did my mother-in-law. (I passed everything by her because there were times she didn’t get an elephant joke. If Ruth didn’t get a gag, I knew I was going to have to rework it!) Still, I had complaints that this punch line didn’t make sense. I’ll leave it with you. Did you get it??!!
   -
   A nice play on words here for a little chuckle.
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   SeaFox10 said, 3 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   I got it also! I love this strip, and I have seen it to the end, but I never saw the first few years when the kids were little! So all of these, (so far) are still new to me, and that makes it all that much better! The ending was so nice, I felt like I had just finished a lovely novel! But felt a little empty, that it was over!
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 3 months ago

   Andy Capp drinks an ocean of beer a day, and it’s Elly Patterson who has the gut!
   Life can be so unfair!
   ;-)
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   T_Lexi said, 3 months ago

   I also thought it was quite funny. I can’t imagaine any middle-agers not relating. (But Tim Allen did it better in The Santa Clause when the Dr. told him he was putting on a “little weight,” and Tim grabbed his Santa belly, jiggled it, and said, “You call this a ‘little weight’?”)
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    oldman2013 said, 3 months ago

    she’ll never get a Jennifer body no matter how hard she tries
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    USN1977 said, 3 months ago

    @oldman2013

    What is a “Jennifer body”?
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    seed_drill said, 3 months ago

    I consider myself pretty fit, until I pull on a skin tight base layer before going out in the cold. It does not allow self delusion, and is probably similar in tightness to what Elly is wearing there.
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    annamargaret1866 said, 3 months ago

    @USN1977

    And why would Elly want it?
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    Coffee-Turtle said, 3 months ago

    One word, hun: Spanx
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    GretchensMom said, 3 months ago

    It’s an unfortunate fact of life that the older women get, the easier it is to acquire little unwanted belly paunches like this . . . and once you do, it’s even HARDER to work them off too. Damned hormones. It’s a real curse!!!

     

    :-(
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