For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 05, 2015

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 9 years ago

    John must be busy with molars and root canals. Be glad he ain’t making some remark that’ll make him insert a foot in his mouth for the stupid thing Elly just did.

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    ron47  over 9 years ago

    She has shorts on, she wade in at least.

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    Loves life  over 9 years ago

    Maybe she forgot she put it on at the house..I think the comic implies that after all the badgering about keeping up with their own things, she forgot something.John must be at the lake fishing..

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    BarBaraPrz  over 9 years ago

    Maybe the colorist goofed? As svetlana17 said, it’s the tank top she was wearing but somehow her jeans became invisible…

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    Grutzi  over 9 years ago

    He’s probably on call like my husband.

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    Miba  over 9 years ago

    What she’s wearing sure looks like a swimsuit to me.

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    Miba  over 9 years ago

    Even if that is just a regular tanktop she can still swim in it, can’t she? It’s just a lake. I’ve seen people at lakes swimming in just plain shorts and tshirts.

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    jimguess  over 9 years ago

    Remember a few days ago? John is on his canoe trip!

    Yes, she forgot she already has her suit on …

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    summerdog86  over 9 years ago

    Fire whoever colors this strip! They certainly made a noticeable mistake in that one panel! Must be they didn’t take the time to read the punch line, because they certainly goofed it up!

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    Can't Sleep  over 9 years ago

    The waistband on her pants made me think they were sweats.And if the colorist had taken time to read the strip…

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    Gokie5  over 9 years ago

    The most spectacular thing I ever forgot happened when I masterminded a trip to the beach for our denomination’s student union while at Florida State U. in Tallahassee. We went to Alligator Point, which is on the Gulf of Mexico, 37 miles south of the college. I’d arranged for us to have a lot of neat stuff – Food, drinks, napkins, plastic tablecloths, cups, plates. However, there was no silverware (or plasticware). We had to use rather fragile potato chips to shovel in our baked beans, potato salad, etc. I got ribbed for that.

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    Ricky Bennett  over 9 years ago

    She better go back and make sure she unplugged the irony…

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    Asharah  over 9 years ago

    If she goes swimming in what she’s wearing, she’ll have to wear wet clothes for the drive home.

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    hippogriff  over 9 years ago
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    Lynn’s Notes: I have only been through Hope twice, but I don’t recall it being desert. I have hung tents from trees many times – intentionally from the start. However, my four pound ten ounce two person design includes tent, poles, stakes, rope, and bags to hold it all, in that figure.

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    JennyJenkins  over 9 years ago

    Now I have “master lists” for every occasion, that I made up, years ago, and I follow them every time we leave the house. Saves a lot time when packing, that’s for sure.

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    JennyJenkins  over 9 years ago

    BTW, I think Elly is so exasperated, that she forgot she’s wearing her bathing suit… It seems to me, since in the third last panel, it looks like she has it on.

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    K M  over 9 years ago

    Regardless of the apparent swimsuit third panel from the end, this actually happened to a friend of mine, and we were in Chincoteague, VA, while home was north of Baltimore. We got all the way there, she realized she’d packed swimsuits for her kids but forgot her own. Husband called his office, instructed one of his workers (who was also a personal friend of the family and apparently taking care of the pets, as she had a key to the house) where to look in the house for her swimsuit, and to bring it to the office, put it into an overnight FedEx box and ship it to them at the beach. She had the swimsuit in roughly 24 hours.

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    Sandra Gouvaia Premium Member over 9 years ago

    She is already wearing her swimming suit! It’s like the cartoonist forgot that?

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    sbischof  over 9 years ago

    Bathing suits don’t normally have belts – so my guess is the colorist goofed. I’ved heard enough funny stories of them doing it in other older comics!

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