For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 20, 2023

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    Cactus-Pete  over 1 year ago

    Except that lions live on the savanna not in the jungle.

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    MichaelAxelFleming  over 1 year ago

    My band opened for The Tokens. They saved that tune until the end of their set and made a very long production of it.

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    Asharah  over 1 year ago

    Mike likes oldies?

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    Johnny Q Premium Member over 1 year ago

    At least he’s blasting classic songs…

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 1 year ago

    How many of you just sang that out loud? LOL

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    emiesty Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Is that paper from a dot-matrix printer? With perforated sides?

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    GirlGeek Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And so it begins

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    Daniel Verburg  over 1 year ago

    This shoots me half a century back !

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    BlitzMcD  over 1 year ago

    Mike should have seen the Tokens live. They weren’t the first to tackle The Lion Sleeps Tonight (the Weavers, the Kingston Trio and a few others did before them). But the Tokens continued to play live regularly on the west coast into the early years of the 21st century, and the late Mitch Margo could still hit that falsetto with a vengeance at that point.

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    dlkrueger33  over 1 year ago

    You’d think Ellie would be pleased that Mike prefers THIS to 90’s music. Thought she might jump in and sing along.

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    rmercer Premium Member over 1 year ago

    “Baweemawop Baweemawop Baweemawop Baweemawop ….” Well somebody has to do the background!

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    Johnnyrico  over 1 year ago

    St. Michael of Flithead

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    goboboyd  over 1 year ago

    Worse than poking the bear?

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    e.groves  over 1 year ago

    That is on my list of songs that I can’t stand. It’ll be stuck in my head all day. Drat!

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    Snolep  over 1 year ago

    The song was written by South African Solomon Linda and recorded by him with the title “Mbube”. Pete Seeger misheard the lyrics as “wimoweh” and introduced it here thinking it was a native folk song and thus Linda got no royalties. When Seeger learned his error he made sure Linda got the credit and royalties from the Weavers version and tried to make that happen universally, but Disney used it in Lion King and refused to pay anything to Linda’s family, resulting in a lawsuit. There’s a very moving documentary on this called “The Lion’s Share.”

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    DawnMcCandless  over 1 year ago

    Yup stuck in the head now. But thanks to the internet I have a visual of the 2 cops in the golf cart

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    johnjoyce  over 1 year ago

    I don’t remember this strip from the first time it ran. It made me chuckle this morning. (And I’ll probably get an earworm today, too.)

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    Redd Panda  over 1 year ago

    This one is best done acapella … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RnhVDTks3g

    Hey, it’s Monday! Let’s go out there and have a good day! If there’s no one around, give those vocal cords a good workout. My Honey says, my singing keeps the mice away.

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    DanielPatternson  over 1 year ago

    Boy, Elly sure is a moody cow lately

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    Mumblix Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Lynn’s Comments:

    Changing this to a modern song would mean changing the punch line. Some things you have to leave as they are!

    Source: https://fborfw.com/strip_fix/monday-february-20-2023

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    Diat60  over 1 year ago

    Excuse me, I have to go in the kitchen and ask Alexa to play this for me. It’s a great song.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    Never wake the mama lion. She is fierce!

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    rushfan200  over 1 year ago

    I wrote a parody of this song aft er a guy in my dorm got drunk and peed on my door at 4 am one night. I caught him and thought it was funny but my roommate was pretty roasted. I better not say the drunk kid’s name.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I love it!!!

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    paranormal  over 1 year ago

    My mother had that record when I was a kid back in the ‘60s. Kids today don’t know what a music record is…

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    dcandmx  over 1 year ago

    Maybe the urge to listen to it is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away ….

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    temoc  over 1 year ago

    I do not know how my mom (and the rest of my family) kept with my Techno music back in the day, even the neighbors listened to it (even if they did not like it)!

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    paulscon  over 1 year ago

    How old is this strip? I remember that song from circa 1960?

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    cactusbob333  over 1 year ago

    Funny, just a little while back I mentioned that I like this song by the Tokens. Right after I finished reading today’s comic, I hear the song being played on KTUC. Now I have an all-day earworm.

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    John Jorgensen  over 1 year ago

    There’s something deliciously absurd about this being the song Mike is blasting.

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    USN1977  over 1 year ago

    It could have been gospel music or “O Canada”, and Elly would still be angry with her son. It was not the issue what was played, but rather he had it full blast. Michael was oblivious to the fact he is a part of a family. Michael was also clueless to the fact that he lives in a house that his parents paid for.

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    kamoolah  over 1 year ago

    The Patterson Dictionary:

    Africa: A place where children would be happy to eat whatever meals Elly makes.

    .Baby: How Michael, Elizabeth and April will always be seen by Elly, regardless of their actual age.

    Grown Up: An ambiguous term that applies when Michael and Elizabeth need to take on more responsibilities and do better in school…but not when they ask for more privileges.

    Noise: Any piece of music composed after 1949.

    Perfect: Elly’s life growing up in the 1950s.

    Respect: What Elly always gave her parents, the high and mighty Greatest Generation.

    Sixteen: The number of miles John had to walk to school.

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    Spacetech  over 1 year ago

    Mom needs a Chill-Pill or Lithium or …

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    JanLC  over 1 year ago

    I can remember an evening when our son was a “tween” and this song came on the radio. The three of us lip-synced the whole thing. Hubby was the lead singer, son was the “weemaways” and I did the high “ah-ah-ah-ah’s”. We laughed so hard when we were done. It’s a great memory.

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    daleandkristen  over 1 year ago

    Hush my darling……

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    Foob  over 1 year ago

    What does she mean, “shaking the whole house”? That song isn’t exactly known for its beat.

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    Robert Nowall Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Y’know, that’s a lullaby…

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    Slatsmagee I  over 1 year ago

    My Old Man used to say, “don’t poke the bear”…

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    stillfickled Premium Member over 1 year ago

    What are the real lyrics to Louie, Louie?

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    correction: Michael woke the lioness

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    Earphones, dummy…

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    Katsuro Premium Member over 1 year ago

    What’s the paper for?

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    jandaloft  over 1 year ago

    A Whim A Way!

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    CoreyTaylor1  over 1 year ago

    Oh sorry, Helly Patterson. Mike must’ve forgot that your loud b—-hing is the only thing allowed to shake the whole house. Maybe he turned it up because he couldn’t hear the radio over YOU!

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My mother worked more night shifts than I can remember as a nurse. When she woke up early in the day, she was far worse than Ellie could be. Woe be tide that person who woke her from her slumber. They would get clobbered by her and the rest of us siblings would add to that person’s misery!

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    tinstar  over 1 year ago

    Loud music has always been the bane of my existence. My father would crank the stereo at 7 a.m. because he thought we should be awake, even though because I was in high school, and had to work evenings on weekends, I didn’t get to bed until 3:30 a.m.That carried over to my military time… rather than the expensive stereo, I bought a simple clock radio. If I was in my barracks room writing letters home, I would have the door open for the cross breeze, and my radio was on, but, you could stand in the doorway to my room, and barely hear it.

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    The Great_Black President  over 1 year ago

    Good for Elly. If she did not confront him about this music he might become a racist and/or start shooting heroin. She yelled at him for reading a pornographic magazine; if she hadn’t then one day in the future he would sexually harass women.

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    jbruins84341  over 1 year ago

    I have always hated that song.

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