For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 07, 2015

Um… why not Anne or Connie?

I guess they can’t order a pizza (?)

Sandwiches are quick and easy.

That situation pretty much did encourage pizza sales. Mmmm…. pizza! But if they do it daily for months, someone has to get up, most days. They are at least 2 years from Michael’s being able to realisitically take a day or 2 a week to make a reasonably healthy dinner.

Michael can fix bowls of cereal for Elizabeth and himself. Maybe for Mom & Dad too! That’ll work!

That’s us, we usually end up making omlets, as we’re too pooped to go out.

Yes

Obviously, you’re on a mission. Hope you succeed. I have never encountered the word ‘bagged’ in that way before.I have heard the word ‘bushed’ in that way before, and I understood what it meant.Maybe you can research that and let us know what you find.

Probably local slang.

There are a lot of words in common usage that don’t exactly fit the dictionary definitions.

Lynn’s Notes:

During the few times I worked as my husband’s dental assistant, I was fortunate to have two wonderful parents in law, living a mere 5 minute walk away (from both the clinic and the house). Ruth and Tom’s home was set up for children and the care was constant as we moved the kids from one house to the other. At the end of the day, we might stay at “Ruth’s” for dinner or we’d pick up the kids and come home — exhausted. Either way, it was “mom” who put on the grub!

I am looking for a definition of “bagged” that means “exhausted or beat” and I am failing:-——-It could simply be regional.But why bother looking it up at all?Like most words, we can tell what it means by it’s usage (otherwise, it wouldn’t be in the strip).

NightShade09: Or just contact A Way With Words (1-800-WAY-WORD). A great radio show for those who like language.

NightShade09: Or just contact A Way With Words (1-800-WAY-WORD). A great radio show for those who like language..Or it might come from “fagged”, to be burned up like a cigarette, changed when fag got another definition.

I don’t have an immediate reference for you, but it’s Brit. I have heard Canadians, Brits and Aussies use it. They usually say “Knackered” though. Derives from “In the bag.”, I think.

You know, there is this search engine on the internet called Google, you may have heard of it, that I quite often use to answer such questions (click the link to answer yours).

Just flip a coin !!!!!! 8^)

I found the following for you on Dictionary.com:

Under: Slang definitions & phrases for bag(ged):

adjective:1. Drunk (1950’s+)2. Prearranged; fixed 3. Exhausted; beat, pooped: I’m too bagged to breathe.

(As for #3’s example: I swear . . . that’s exactly what it says!)

Break out the PB&J guys, those two won’t back down!

I think you’re wrong, Michael; they aren’t trying to decide anything. It is a negotiating session, or more likely, a game of one-upsmanship. Mom and Dad are trying to come up with the best way to say, “I’m too tired to even think about dinner,” so that the other will cave and do something – anything – whether it’s pizza, pb&j, or an actual (unlikely) home-cooked meal. We keep frozen pizzas on hand for these situations, and the kids are old enough to handle the task with verbal supervision – but someone still needs to give the authorization. (Which itself is a caving in to one’s own weariness.)

JPuzzleWhiz: Right. The old WW-I song, Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, is not quite extinct, and uses “While you’ve a lucifer [match] to light your fag” in the lyrics..There is also the possibility that “bagged out” came from “fagged out” in which “fag” was a shortened form of fatigued. There is a convergent evolution in language in which a term can have more than one etymology, just as in nature, a shark (selachian), tuna (fish), ichthyosaur (reptile), and porpoise (mammal) all have the same basic shape because it is the most efficient for that environment.