For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 20, 2017

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    howtheduck  about 7 years ago

    This is the first in what will be many, many jokes about Michael and his hair grooming habits. I can only assume that Lynn Johnston’s own son must have taken up using hair gel around this time in 1988.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 7 years ago

    Must be extra, extra, EXTRA strong gel.

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    M2MM  about 7 years ago

    In the 60’s, ladies used hairspray for the same purpose. :D

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    Rosette  about 7 years ago

    It took me awhile to get this one. Why so many superfluous bystanders?

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    jpayne4040  about 7 years ago

    This strikes a chord, as I’m highly allergic to the vast majority of hair gels, hairsprays, and perfumes!

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    littlejohn Premium Member about 7 years ago

    A little dab will do you — Brillcream. (Hope that I spelled it correctly. Haven’t seen it in years.)

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    GirlGeek Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Kids nowadays have the luxury of waiting inside the warmth of Mom or Dad’s car or getting a ride to school. I did not get that benefit back when I was in school. Up until my late high school years, I was either walking to school or waiting for the bus to come. And it was always in the cold the bus ran five minutes late. Like on purpose.

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    Mr. Peterson  about 7 years ago

    As it turns out, it is not gel at all, but something like the plastic hair pieces Devo wore on the New Traditionalists album.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Anybody else remember Dippity-Do?

    It was a go-to for mom for years.

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    tuslog1964  about 7 years ago

    Anyone else remember “Hey, jelly-head” the ad that went against jels?

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    tuslog1964  about 7 years ago

    As for the shelters, I remember going somewhere once and seeing these shelters along the main road and thinking how nice it was for that insurance company to put them up. Then, I turned off onto a back road, and here the kids were shivering in the rain waiting for the bus.

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    kodj kodjin  about 7 years ago

    Back in the 1950s when I was in a Military school, I used Butch Wax on my flat top!

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    sjsczurek  about 7 years ago

    I remember this stuff called “Dippity Do.” My mom (RIP) used to put it in our hair. No better than “greasy kid stuff,” whatever that was.

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    howtheduck  about 7 years ago

    Why in the world are these kids carrying a giant sheaf of loose papers in that wind? I think they had heard of notebooks and binders back in 1988.

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    Linguist  about 7 years ago

    I can never think about hair gel, without being reminded of the hilarious scene from There’s Something About Mary.

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