For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 12, 2023

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    Macushlalondra  12 months ago

    Make her pick up her own clothes, Elly. As long as you do it for her she won’t ever do it for herself.

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    French Persons Premium Member 12 months ago

    A reptile, eh? Should be easy. Just write about Anthony!

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    snsurone76  12 months ago

    There was a news story recently about a delivery woman in Florida who was bitten by a rattler while on the job making a delivery. Luckily, she survived and is recovering.

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    Geophyzz  12 months ago

    They say that most of the dust in our homes is us, shedding.

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    joe piglet Premium Member 12 months ago

    Ha, I think everyone is missing the main point here, she has picked up a book, reading and turning pages. This is from the 80s, so she went to the library, not Google.

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    fgerbil46  12 months ago

    I’m surprised that JasonSnakeLover isn’t here making a comment.

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    mourdac Premium Member 12 months ago

    Should have done the report on Quiley from ‘Foxtrot’.

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    'IndyMan'  12 months ago

    I think she meaning you, Elizabeth ! ! !

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    Doug K  12 months ago

    The Order that includes Snakes and Reptiles is called Squamata.

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    howtheduck  12 months ago

    The most amazing part of this comic strip is that Elizabeth, now in Grade 9, still just throws her clothes on the floor expecting her mother to come into her room and pick up her clothes off the floor in order to do her laundry and will watch her mother do that without even once offering to help.

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    dlaemmerhirt999  12 months ago

    Am I the only one flabberghasted??? It feels like yesterday that Lizzy was 8 . . . now she wears a BRA!

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    Redd Panda  12 months ago

    If Mom’s still picking up after that kid, at least use a rake.

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    Dani Rice  12 months ago

    Our two youngest were slobs, but cleaning their room usually involved shoving everything under the bed. Hubby got mad one day and threatened to hang the beds from the ceiling. And he did. He got 1/2-inch plywood, some 1 × 2s, and some chain, made platforms for the mattresses and put hooks in the ceiling beams.

    The girls loved it! Those swinging beds could be spaceships, covered wagons, Spanish galleons . . . They used them until they were seniors in high school.

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    cracker65  12 months ago

    I grew up in Eastern Kentucky and there were a healthy population of timber rattlesnakes. They are a very laid back snake and very colorful.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 12 months ago

    Atta girl Mom…atta girl.

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    PassinThru  12 months ago

    I was in 3rd grade when we moved to Texas. I checked out a book on snakes from the library, and informed my mom that nearly all the poisonous snake species in the US could be found in Texas! She was thrilled to learn this…

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    Back to Big Mike  12 months ago

    My bride NEVER let me or the boys toss clothes on the floor. We had laundry bags on rolling brackets in the kids bedrooms and in the bathroom. When one got full, they took it down for washing. When they hit high school, she made them wash their own clothes. I am lucky. She still looks after me.

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    USN1977  12 months ago

    There was a case of a boy in Fort Worth, Texas who saw a snake with red and yellow bands. Unfortunately, he did not know that was a coral snake (which is poisonous) and it bit him on the finger. The bad news was those snakes are not often seen in Texas and the hospital did not have any antivenom. The good news was the Air Force flew the proper antivenom from Louisiana to Fort Worth, and the boy’s life was saved.

    As Veteran’s Day was yesterday, let us give thanks for those who served in the eight uniformed services. Not everything dangerous or time-sensitive they did had to do with combat.

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    EnlilEnkiEa  12 months ago

    Nudists don’t have these problems.

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    Jogger2  12 months ago

    The only states in the U.S. that do not have rattle snakes are Hawaii, Alaska, and Maine. Alaska has no snakes.

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    daleandkristen  12 months ago

    I hope Jessegooddoggy comments!

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    kamoolah  12 months ago

    Yes, but does Elizabeth speak Parseltongue?

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    Atewl  12 months ago

    I’m grateful that Lynn has Elizabeth specifying that the 25 years and the 10 day are “of age”. Otherwise i’d have assumed “of weight”.

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    nelsonks3646  12 months ago

    Why is she picking up Elizabeth’s laundry? My kids were doing their own laundry at that age.

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    HodgeElmwood  12 months ago

    So why isn’t Liz picking up her own clothes?

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    The Great_Black President  12 months ago

    The Pattersons don’t shed their skin. If they did they would look like the exposed extraterrestrials from They Live.

    OBEY

    DEBT IS GOOD

    DOUBT FREEDOM

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    Cathy P.  12 months ago

    Is there a reason why snakes are popular in today’s comics? BC is also snake-themed.

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    howtheduck  12 months ago

    Interestingly enough, a discussion we had about timber rattlesnakes and their shedding habits has been removed today 11/14/2023. I saw it earlier this afternoon, but now it is gone. There were no bad words or negative comments or religious or political discussions. Just people sharing information about timber rattlesnakes. I wonder why it was removed. The controllers at gocomics are mysterious. It means someone flagged it and they did not bother to check the content. Oh well, it’s not like it mattered, except I was enjoying the conversation and now it is gone.

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