For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 27, 2014

The last 3 times I was in the “express” line there was an old lady in front of paying by check which takes about two to three minutes to process, annoying everyone else behind me. I used my debit card which took all of 30 seconds. Can’t they remember a simple pin. number instead of using the monetary equivalent of the buggy whip?

CASH???……..Now that’s using a buggy whip!!!!

What chu talkin’’bout?!It’s all TRUE!

Really? You had to make a political comment? Well since you feel you must. When has the truth ever mattered to you libs? Or to this “most transparent administration in history”?

Elly doesn’t need to buy the tabloid – the stories can’t possibly be as much fun as the headlines.Remember the Batboy stories one had? This guy with pointy ears, a pushed up nose and fangs was featured regularly on one of them. : “Batboy rescues cat from tree” “Batboy becomes honorary mayor” “Batboy joins Marines”“Batboy fathers twins with Octogenarian Space Alien”

Like Ellie if the line is very slow moving I pick up those magazines and read them. I would never buy them.They should also have these tabloids in the Doctor’s office.I’ve told the Doctor’s office to stock up on people’s magazine if they are going to keep me waiting. The doctor and I laughed about this.

Making up a story to go with the headline is more fun than reading it. Usually more accurate, too.

I remember “News of the World”. That’s the one that announced that Michael Landon really did come back as an angel. (Not too long before Landon died, he starred in a series – “Highway to Heaven” – as a man who died and came back as an angel.)

You don’t have to read the Tabloids, the headlines say it all.

My blood pressure got up in an express lane when some woman in front of me paid a twenty-something dollar total with coins she fished out of a bag.

This week’s tabloid headlines continue to carry on the tradition with splendor. SPOILER ALERT: President Obama was caught looking down a young woman’s front!! (The cover picture shows a woman with her back to us and President Obama smiling down at her. For all it shows, he could be looking at a cute ladybug on the floor.) The Royal Couple are having a girl, and plan to name her Diana. The Queen is ab-so-lute-ly FURIOUS!! Bill and Hillary are secretly separated, but are pretending they aren’t so she’ll have a better run at the presidency. Something about Kanye and Kim, or whoever (it all blurs).

Partisan politics is just plain ugly here.

I always thought News of the World was an album by Queen that had the infamous gigantic robot head on its album cover.

Since Lynn lives in Canada, I think maybe she’s correct in her recollection of reading News of the World. They aren’t really the 51st state, you know. :)

There are still some uses for a buggy whip – or at least I sometimes wish I could use one on a few jerks.

Well, Elly, “reading” the article names Does count as reading, you know! ;)

Re: not reading tabloids in a doctor’s office…I, too, like to read the Reader’s Digest (at one point even had a subscription). About that puzzle book?…make sure it has puzzles by you! ;)

I did that at a grocery store car full waiting for my wife to check out clerk to me buy it or put it back guess who left the cart full of grocery and waked out