For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 11, 2023

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    Have fun, Johnny, at releasing this mouse.

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    9thCapricorn  over 1 year ago

    Elly, it was NOT the mouse’s fault your car got in a ditch. WHO drove the car? YOU did. Clearly you parked it in the wrong spot. Clearly you were not paying attention to where you were parking the car. It is YOUR fault, Elly. Mouse had zero responsibility in that $60. I bet you were distracted, thinking about stuff when you arrived at the destination and didn’t notice the ditch. A long drive tends to put drivers in a trance.

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    littlejohn Premium Member over 1 year ago

    If there is a second mouse. There are a lot more little mice hiding somewhere.

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    howtheduck  over 1 year ago

    You can have this mouse, or what is in the pot on the stove. Hard choice!

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    eced52  over 1 year ago

    Put up or shut up, John.

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    Botulism Bob  over 1 year ago

    And now John is at a loss for words.

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    Truth Seeker  over 1 year ago

    Send it to the pirates in Overboard or get a real cat.

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    Grandma Lea  over 1 year ago

    Not if you drive with my partner, trance would be merciful

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    Macushlalondra  over 1 year ago

    Get. A. Cat!!

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    funnypenguins  over 1 year ago

    Flush?

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    janis nerowski  over 1 year ago

    For God’s sake find the place where they are getting in and take care of it.

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    mgl179  over 1 year ago

    Elly there’s a phrase for that. Do stupid stuff, win stupid prizes. Be glad your prize only cost $60 and there was no damage to the car. Learn from it.

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    Black76Manta  over 1 year ago

    I hope that teaches John that there are times when it is better to keep your mouth shut!

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    kaycstamper  over 1 year ago

    $60 for a tow in the country? Shows how old this comic is…

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    Willywise52 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    You get down on your hands and knees and look in EVERY bottom cabinet and closet for an entry hole,then block it.Worked for me.

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    goboboyd  over 1 year ago

    Perhaps a quick ‘snap’ is better than inadvertently starving in a ‘live trap’.

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    Irish53  over 1 year ago

    Where there’s one mouse, there’s at least 12 more

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    notjimothy  over 1 year ago

    Doesn’t that pot belong in a different strip?

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    dwdl21  over 1 year ago

    I still use snap traps.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    It’s your turn to take a mouse to the country.

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    The rats can’t be too far behind

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    Chris  over 1 year ago

    ya sure that ain’t the same one… :\

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    M M  over 1 year ago

    Flush the mouse? Are you nuts? You would then probably need a plumber.

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    g04922  over 1 year ago

    Yep… the cost of woke… Go Woke, Go Broke…

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    MeGoNow Premium Member over 1 year ago

    We were bored at the fire station once, and we had mice. So we built a little combination trap and catapult. When a mouse climbed into the dish at the end, he triggered the catapult that flung him out the second story window. Think little screams diminishing into the distance. Eeeeeeeeeee ee e e e e e .

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    Vintage life  over 1 year ago

    You don’t flush mice it will plug your toilet just put in the trash and take the trash out

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    gigagrouch  over 1 year ago

    Flush?! Don’t think so. i put the corpses out by the lilac bush. By the next morning, the Racoons have taken them away.

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Fill a large bucket with water, insert trap, wait overnight, and empty and clean trap.

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    Carl  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Bet there is a neighborhood kid with a pet snake nearby.

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    Steverino Premium Member over 1 year ago

    We had a mouse in the kitchen, so I set a Havahart live trap. It caught the mouse, and I could see that the trap was tripped. The mouse made no noise. My wife, who was in the kitchen, didn’t realize that I caught the mouse, and remarked “it’s not making any noise”. I showed her the mouse.

    She now has a better appreciation for the saying “quiet as a mouse”.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member over 1 year ago

    That’s the trouble with a live capture trap.. getting rid of those cute little eyes is hard. Poison works best, out of sight and gets them all.

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    USN1977  over 1 year ago

    Getting stuck in a ditch or a snowdrift is also a good way for Elly to damage the skid plate on her car.

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    Back to Big Mike  over 1 year ago

    I’m so impressed that El would even touch the trap. My SO won’t even take it out of the cart, brand new, at the hardware store.

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    kennnyp  over 1 year ago

    there is a video of Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining the most humane way to treat a mouse is……… well here, I’ll let yu watch it…Opinions….?…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAQOKqaznT0

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    hooglah  over 1 year ago

    Call the cat over. End of problem.

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    The Great_Black President  over 1 year ago

    John gives it to Brad Luggsworth. Then he returns home.

    John: “Elly, I got rid of the mouse and I gave one of the town lowlives something to eat. Talk about killing two birds with one stone!”

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    paranormal  over 1 year ago

    Now His turn to get stuck in a ditch!!!

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    JanLC  over 1 year ago

    I guess I was wrong yesterday about Elly getting hung up on a rock instead of in a ditch. Oh well, we can’t all be perfect.

    One wonders though, how did Elly call a tow truck in 1994? She was on a country road in the middle of nowhere. In those days, even if she did have a cell phone (remember the “brick”?) there weren’t very many towers and reception in a rural area was usually non-existent.

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    BlitzMcD  over 1 year ago

    Old hippies learning the real cost of their “noble” causes.

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    minty_Joe  over 1 year ago

    I have no issues with mice. We’ve got lots of wild field mice running around our property (I live out in the REMOTE rural part of town.). I’d rather coexist with them than with rats. I’ve heard of horror stories regarding rats in NYC. Makes me shudder…

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    NaturLvr  over 1 year ago

    Flush it down the toilet? Not a good idea under any circumstances, septic or city sewer. Very unwise thing to do.

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    kamoolah  over 1 year ago

    Since this is a comic strip, and comic strips are supposed to be funny, how about this.

    John: “Sure I will get rid of the mouse.”

    Elly: “OK, how?”

    John: “Calvin has offered to help.” John pulls out transmogrifer gun and transforms Elly into an owl “Here’s your dinner, Elly the Owl!”

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    bilbrlsn  over 1 year ago

    Toilet, flush.

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    The Lone Reader  over 1 year ago

    It’s “Crush A Mouse Time” kids!!

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    We have cats. NO mice, rats or squirrels.

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    Omniman  over 1 year ago

    They need a cat.

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    HodgeElmwood  over 1 year ago

    Oh, just let it go out behind th garage.

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    HodgeElmwood  over 1 year ago

    Actually, their real problem is figuring out how the mice are getting into the house. Seal off the access points and you won’t have to worry about it anymore.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Probably the same one…I once made my Dad take a mouse outside rather than kill it. He said it would beat him back in the house and he was right.

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    John Jorgensen  over 1 year ago

    If I were charged sixty dollars for a tow I’d feel relieved it had been so cheap.

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    Johnnyrico  over 1 year ago

    Heh.

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    ANOTHER one?Call the realtor,that house is uninhabitable.

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    GreggW Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Flush?

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