For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 27, 2016

ouch

oh its happens to all of us at one time.

Don’t worry. You were going to fail math anyway, Elly.

I am not sure why Connie wants to know the ending of a story she already knows how it ends. Supposedly she was Elly’s roommate during the 1 (or maybe 2) years that Elly was at the University of Toronto working on her degree in English, so she knows that by the time Elly got to her university days she had hit the point where she was hanging out in the medical library waiting to find a future doctor and to get her MRS. degree. By the age of 18, Elly Patterson had already left her romantic teenage years far behind. It wouldn’t take much for Connie to remember how Elly was in her own romantic dealings with Phil and Ted, where any action by the male in the relationship that was not leading to marriage was considered to be the act of a scoundrel leading on an innocent woman. Somewhere between her teenaged years and her university years, Elly went hardcore on the idea that marriage was the goal of any woman in a relationship and nothing less would be acceptable. In other words, a teenaged boy who doesn’t write back is a jerk to be gotten over.

He’s Michael’s real father

Don’t put down math-Electromagnetic (radio) waves were discovered by a mathematician before anyone had any idea how to generate or detect them! (If only he were alive today!)The shots we give kids today to prevent a certain type of cancer? The virus was theorized to exist by mathematicians(statistics) before biologists proved its existence!(I suffered through 5 courses of calculus – and used it only once in my life!)

I had a college course called Business Math (calculus). I was flunking out. The teacher tutored me I how to pass the exam. I got an A in the course . After the exam, the teacher said I could forget it all as in my line of work I wouldn’t need it.

Based on the number of comments so far,I predict the number of posts by the end of the day to be 23. That is not a mathematical certainty of course!

We moved. I still miss her. It was 1967.

@comicsssfan. Keep going,were still a long way from 23!

we’re…. oops,blame my school.

That’s too bad comicsssfan,I’m heading out soon to see a movie called “Hell or High Water”.I think it’s a condemnation about the American banking system,maybe schools get a mention too,I don’t know.Remember,23,it’s up to you now.Ill check in later.

Lynn Johnson had unique, shared perceptions of our everyday trials and foibles, and her reruns from a couple of decades ago are as fresh as they were then. Universal.

It’s a good thing for the human race that girls don’t get this when it’s happening.

Another great one from Lynn.