For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 07, 2014

Gosh, I haven’t seen spray-on deodorant for a Llllooonnnggg time! One would think the active ingredients in deodorant would deep-six any nasty flying critter… ;)

Michael, why would there bug spray in a bathroom medicine cabinet?

I once used a spray can of Glade air freshener to kill a couple of wasps in my bedroom as it was the quickest thing I could grab. It killed them & the room smelled fresh for days afterwards.

Insects have their skeletons on the outside; therefore, a spray would not kill them immediatly as easily as stomping on them when they’re on a surface. What the spray may do is take time to penetrate their extiores until it does its work..

And here I just took it as a play on the old Brill-Cream/Toothpaste gag.

Better than actual bug spray. The deodorant should make the bug dopey enough to smack it

Hairspray works on bugs also.

Well I’ve never done that but do remember years ago when I was using Right Guard getting up in a hurry and spraying my underarms with hair spray. Yuck, could use as a substitute for Butt Glue to keep your clothes from shifting.

I’m always amazed by how many people here take the jokes seriously.

Wow. A history lesson and a cheap shot at Elly in one comment!If you hate this strip so much, why do you read it?

Windex works really well on flies.

@MiHorn, I once mistook my hairspray for deodorant. True story! It was on a business trip with my manager, early morning, before a cup of coffee. Sprayed my underarms with hairspray. Didn’t kill any bugs, though, lol!

Nab certainly does NOT have a PhD in any science. While I do not believe the “climate change” nuts, he is wrong about the effect of the CFCs in the upper atmosphere. Ozone absorbs UV light even in the low concentrations that exist in the upper atmosphere. The gases in the lower atmosphere are very poor UV absorbers.

Since the FBoFW website is still having problems, I went back to the fourth treasury book to find any comments Lynn may have made. There were none for the last few days, but there is one for tomorrow. If the website is still down, I will post that comment here.

Hater, hater, alligator…

@Night-Gaunt49 Put me down as in favor of delaying the next Ice Age.

And just a few years ago, we were being warned of another ice age on the way?

Could be worse. Seems a mosquito was bothering this person one night. He reaches for the bug spray, and starts aiming at the buzz in the dark.Finally gets him.Next morning, awakes and looks around the room and then realized, that in the dark, grabbed a can of spray paint!(But, at least, he got the mosquito!)

then don’t read this strip

For those who read Lynn’s Notes here:The server, where they’re kept, had a problem Saturday and yesterday, so they couldn’t be displayed here. It’s working again — click the links to read them there. No Lynn’s Notes today.

What I really don’t understand is why you and Nab troll a comic strip about a family.It isn’t political.It isn’t biting satire.But here you both are, making asine remarks on a regular basis.And you go out of your way to be the first each day, just to annoy people who come for a laugh.Pathetic.

It’s just a gag. No need for eyeglasses.You see a can, grab, and spray.Heck, he coulda grabbed a can of Pledge, and polished him off. (yuck, yuck, yuck.)

I don’t remember ever seeing aerosol deodorant cans. If they were outlawed in 1989, that would explain it. I was only a toddler.