Between the original comic strips in 1979, this flashback in 1989 and the new-run comic strips in 2008; there have been three comic strips featuring Elizabeth’s first word as the punchline of the comic strip. In 1979, the first word was “Gookie” for “cookie.” In 2008, the first word was “Ma-ma”. Today, we have “No!”
Infants….poop, tinkle, slobber, gurgle and more, 2’s NO NO NO, 3’s WHY WHY WHY, 4s Bliss (well still learning to put them all togehter but much easier to work with 16 of them LOL
It is not just these days that such things are heard (nor the 1970s or 1980s when these strips were first written). After “Mama” and “Baba” the next intelligible thing I said was an exclamation: “Ohhh, you bad girl!” I am an old fart so you can guess how long ago I learned that from my maternal grandmother.
I knew a woman, an… “interesting” mother of four (and one in the oven), who would never tell her kids “no.” She had some rubbish excuse about it hurting their self-esteem or about it teaching them to say “no”, like Lizzie in today’s strip. Instead of “no”, she would tell them “negative”.
It was the most painful thing I’ve ever had to witness.
Templo S.U.D. almost 6 years ago
kid learns fast (when it comes to “no”)
capricorn9th almost 6 years ago
Oh Elly, you ought be proud! She learned!
howtheduck almost 6 years ago
What colour books do little girls read/eat? Why purple books of course!
howtheduck almost 6 years ago
Between the original comic strips in 1979, this flashback in 1989 and the new-run comic strips in 2008; there have been three comic strips featuring Elizabeth’s first word as the punchline of the comic strip. In 1979, the first word was “Gookie” for “cookie.” In 2008, the first word was “Ma-ma”. Today, we have “No!”
Little Caesar almost 6 years ago
I was almost certain her first word was “decamethylcyclopentasiloxane”.
jpayne4040 almost 6 years ago
LOL! Now that was funny!
micromos almost 6 years ago
Flashbacks should be use sparringly.
Tyge Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Happy two hundred forty second birthday, USA! You ROCK!
tripwire45 almost 6 years ago
My daughter’s first word after Mama and Dada was “candy.”
summerdog86 almost 6 years ago
I think they still use “playpens” when Lizzy was small. Doesn’t Elly have one? They sure would help with the "NO"s!
whenlifewassimpler almost 6 years ago
Infants….poop, tinkle, slobber, gurgle and more, 2’s NO NO NO, 3’s WHY WHY WHY, 4s Bliss (well still learning to put them all togehter but much easier to work with 16 of them LOL
Iwa Iniki almost 6 years ago
Let’s hear it for a few yes’s!
SukieCrandall Premium Member almost 6 years ago
It is not just these days that such things are heard (nor the 1970s or 1980s when these strips were first written). After “Mama” and “Baba” the next intelligible thing I said was an exclamation: “Ohhh, you bad girl!” I am an old fart so you can guess how long ago I learned that from my maternal grandmother.
Rosette almost 6 years ago
I knew a woman, an… “interesting” mother of four (and one in the oven), who would never tell her kids “no.” She had some rubbish excuse about it hurting their self-esteem or about it teaching them to say “no”, like Lizzie in today’s strip. Instead of “no”, she would tell them “negative”.
It was the most painful thing I’ve ever had to witness.
Hippogriff almost 6 years ago
Old single panel cartoon, exasperated mother telling her husband, “And she told her teacher her name was Mary Stop.”