For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 20, 2012

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    arye uygur  over 12 years ago

    The 1st panel with the 2 kids is sooo cute!

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    arye uygur  over 12 years ago

    SUSAN NEWMAN: Yesterday I asked you in Hebrew what was the name of the kibbutz where you peeled potatoes and told you that my kibbutz was Dovrat near Afula. I stayed there for 6 months, learning Hebrew in an Ulpan 1/2 a day and working for a 1/2 a day.

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    legaleagle48  over 12 years ago

    Well, if I were a rooster, I’d be ornery, too, if my harem had suddenly disappeared — roosters can’t exactly take a cold shower every time they’re in the mood, after all!

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    kfccanada  over 12 years ago

    UMmmm sounds like Uncle Vern could empathize with the rooster…for some reason. lol

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    TheSkulker  over 12 years ago

    No feminism here. Women (3) doing the “women’s work” and the men doing the farming.

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    psychlady  over 12 years ago

    Not how I’d want to spend my vacation!

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    thirdguy  over 12 years ago

    That was kind of rude Grandma!

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    prrdh  over 12 years ago

    From the Talking Blues, as sung by Woody Guhtrie:

    Down in the hen house on my knees,I thought I heard a chicken sneeze,But it was only the rooster sayin’ his prayersThankin’ the Lord for the hens upstairs.Rooster prayin’, hens a-layin’,Pore little pullets just pluggin’ away best they know how.

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    AnonaMoaner  over 12 years ago

    Poor old rooster, though! Just acting on his instincts, after all.

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    I lived in the upstairs of a farmhouse when I was small. In the yard was a mean, nasty rooster I was scared to death of. I told my older brother about it and he said he’d do something about it. One night we were all eating chicken for supper. My brother, being a big tease, said: “Remember that mean rooster. Will, I killed him-and now we’re eating him.”

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    rcerinys701  over 12 years ago

    Sounds like you had a hawk in the area.

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    Llywus  over 12 years ago

    I wonder when “Lizzie” will become “Lizard Breath”. Probably sometime shortly after Micheal’s 9th birthday.

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    When we visited my folks, I’d send Daryn out to the hen house to gather the eggs. Once, he reached under one to get an egg and got pecked on the arm.He came back in the house – “That chicken bit me!!”

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    hippogriff  over 12 years ago

    hausof7mau: Not likely. A hawk can’t carry away a grown chicken but would eat it there or drag it a short distance, leaving visible remains. Pigs are a likely suspect or something in order Carnivora, if there are any in that part of Canada.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 12 years ago

    That poor rooster!!!!! :-(

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    mountaingreenery.  over 12 years ago

    I agree, why did they just accept all of the chickens vanishing. It is an odd and sad story for Lynn to share.

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    frogsandravens  over 12 years ago

    So… ONE guy treats you badly, and you decide that every other person in the world who is Jewish is just as bad? Merely because they’re Jewish?

    shakes head

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