For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 10, 2009

Way to shove the boot into your own gob again John! Alas, will you never learn?!? ^_^

Oink, oink, John…..

OpenWings said

Way to shove the boot into your own gob again John! Alas, will you never learn?!?

No, he never did, which is why he and Lynn are divorced.

hmmm… he’s not wearing gloves….. gross ><

He just ticked off his lady patient who is probably a housewife like Elly.

Looks like a certain dentist is going to lose a finger.

Not wearing gloves? That’s okay, he washed his hands before he went to the bathroom. Or, at our local Papa John’s pizza, it doesn’t matter, because they wear the same disposable gloves when they’re making pizza, making change at the cash register (handling all that dirty money), returning to make more pizzas, ring up more sales and taking cash/making change, etc ad nauseum. Guess they keep that nasty flour off their hands so at the end of the day, when they finally take their gloves off, their hands are nice and clean.

Some of these are sure dated now. It just doesn’t have any of the punch that it would have had during it’s original run.

Michael’s in school, but what about Lizzy?

John would certainly be singing a different tune if that had happened in 2009 instead of the 1970s. Elly would probably be working out of sheer economic necessity (bookstore or otherwise) and he would no doubt welcome the extra income (dental practice notwithstanding).

Hey, pointy_stick, if you recognize these to be dated, maybe you are too?

John wasn’t always this way. But now that Lynn is re-doing the story line, she’s putting some of her own failed-marriage issues into it. Too bad cuz old John was a nice and witty guy - not chauvenistic as Lynn is now trying to portray him.

The lady in the chair should “accidently” bite him.

Fairportfan says’s John and Lynn are divorced? It is John and Elly. Is Lynn’s husband a dentist? Never read anywhere the public reason for the actual divorce.

Hey, my ex fit right in with this attitude.

Um, it seems to me Lynn’s husband took up with his dental hygentist - I could be mistaken.

There are things you just dont say, and that is one of them. Algurka, that is just nasty.

I am wondering when I will start recognizie the past strips?

Dentist has no gloves, but patient appears to have a dental dam in place, one of those nasty things they put in your mouth so that you taste nothing but latex for the entire procedure.

It was made public at FBORFW at one time, that the reason for the divorce was that Lynn’s husband wanted it because he fell in love with a younger woman. I don’t know who the woman is. Anyone know?

John should have his license revoking because he did not do the right thing like not wearing latex gloves, covering the mask over his mouth and etc… whatever!

Regarding licensing and hygiene, dentists didn’t always wear gloves. No gloves, no maskes, etc. When I was growing up the dentist walked in and washed his hands… it wasn’t protocol as it is now. These are old strips.

That thing over the patient’s mouth, what does it do when the dentist is working on you? He/she already has the bib for crying out loud.

You’d better just watch yourself, John, with that remark.

I have to concur with krusher2 about the revisionist history. Changing the strips to vent is extremely unfair and discriminatory. Whereas I understand Lynn’s plight, nonetheless to vent in this manner makes the male of the species live down to all the negative stereotypes.

Now imagine the howls of indignation if Elly’s character had been “revised” in that manner. Double standard, indeed…..

I do notice that divorced people are often the most bitter about the opposite sex. It seems that all they see are the flaws, and never any of the positives. My memory isn’t good enough to know for sure that these are revisionist history, but I’ve read FBOFW for a long time, and these do show John in a much more negative light than I remembered.

Krusher2 and anyone else. This is an original 1970’s early 80’s.. John at that time did think that way. This is 100% accurate of his thought process at the time. It was only around when Elizabeth got to school age that he began to mellow and stop being a chauvinist.

It seems to be a bit of a lost cause at this point. No matter how many times people point out that this is NOT a revised strip but rather an ORIGINAL, people still insist on accusing Lynn of changing things in order to make John look bad!

Looks like John’s not the only one who enjoys the taste of his own foot!