For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 20, 2022

Word History: An Englishman and former British soldier, Charles C. Boycott was the estate agent of the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. The earl was one of the absentee landowners who as a group held most of the land in Ireland. Boycott was chosen in the fall of 1880 to be the test case for a new policy advocated by Charles Parnell, an Irish politician who wanted land reform. Any landlord who would not charge lower rents or any tenant who took over the farm of an evicted tenant would be given the complete cold shoulder by Parnell’s supporters. Boycott refused to charge lower rents and ejected his tenants. At this point members of Parnell’s Irish Land League stepped in, and Boycott and his family found themselves isolated—without servants, farmhands, service in stores, or mail delivery. Boycott’s name was quickly adopted as the term for this treatment, not just in English but in other languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Russian.

High school students are riding a city owned bus line? Are there no school busses in that town.

It’s incredible that such dumb kids became successes in the adult world!!

It means you’re about to get a lesson in “see how things work from both sides of the coin.”

“Boycott Metro Bus Lines!”

Everybody walk to school!

Hmm?

17 years old he and doesn’t know the meaning of the word “boycott”… That’s a bit pathetic, really..

Boycotting Metro means the youngsters will need alternated means of transportation to get to school. Bet they didn’t think about that.

Do the students actually pay their own bus fares? I assumed their parents did. I am surprised that there is any fee at all for busing them to school.

well, see there are girl cotts, and boy cotts and….

Lynn’s Comments:

I was given a placard, which read, “Boycott BC Hydro” This was the company that governed the Vancouver transit lines at the time. I had read nothing about the reasons behind the bus fare hike and had no idea what “boycott” meant.

Boycott means giving up the very thing you are trying to improve. At least for a while, until you need it again.

To me this shows the ineptitude of the local school system, in mine, I knew the definition of the word ‘boycott’ while still in elementary school.

Next, boycott the high price of gas and start riding the bike

Gordon has quite the gut in the fourth panel.

Protest -even if you don’t know what it means…

It means you’re going to walk to school, or catch a ride with Mom/Dad or a friend

I thought boycott was when you trapped a running male child.

It means you walk to school or get mommy and daddy to drive you…

I don’t think you should join a cause until you actually know what the cause is about….

This has been plotted so the kids are protesting on their own time,AFTER school.

School authorities can only get involved if the kids walk out on classes.

According to US GOP “cancelling”.

George Soros / Bill Gates Recruitment Center.

what ever happened to the GF at the supermarket? Did i miss something?

When women do it, is it called girlcott?

Why isn’t Lawrence here? By coming, Lawrence agreed to be an activist. Otherwise, Lawrence is not really gay.

“What does ‘boycott’ mean?”

As in the 60s and 70s, so now. Kids rallying about something of which they know nothing.

Wait’ll he learns this means he has to walk or ride his bike all the way to school.

Boy are you dumb!

You are such a dummy. A boycott… a place for boys to sleep. girls sleep in a girlcott.

@MarshaOstroff: I’m happy to see your name today! IIRC, you live in Mexico City. I hope the recent earthquake has not caused severe problems for you or yours there.

Since this is an ongoing storyline I have to ask, why aren’t they riding school buses?

Also, why is it everytime I sign in to comment, I’m brought to a different comic strip and have to use the back button on my browser?

Boycott means that you refuse to have dealings with the tax hike, Gordo.

It means you walk to and from school, Gordo.