For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 29, 2021

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    JD'Huntsville'AL  over 3 years ago

    At least they’re only thinking that stuff.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    Here’s a similar question: what are the girls in the final panel doing out after ten o’clock PM? Shouldn’t they be home?

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    retrocool  over 3 years ago

    it’s a time honored tradition, cruisin’ for chicks. " Hey, babe. You must be tired. You’ve been going through my mind all day ! " or this one from ’ American Graffiti ’ : " Anybody ever told you that you look like Sandra Dee ? " that line worked, and it’s a good one because the name can be changed to any actress one may find attractive, in any era. young girls did, and do, the very same thing.

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    capricorn9th  over 3 years ago

    A group of boys equals too much testosterone equals caveman behavior. All girls need to be taught to stay away from a group of boys at all costs. Too much testosterone often leads to tragic consequences. My parents never told me this but I instinctively knew but unfortunately, some girls think they are harmless and perhaps want some attention – of which they gladly give and not necessarily what the girls want or expect. Clearly, Elly is one of those mothers who are not too concerned about a truckful of teen boys cruising around. John, who is now a father, should know better. He should not lend Mike the car for no reason but I think this is Gordon’s father’s truck and John should and knowing his family history, my guess is his father is all too happy to give him the truck keys to get him out of the house. Since this is a family strip, this cruising will be innocuous and PG RATED.

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    Caldonia  over 3 years ago

    It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?

    No. Probably cruisin’.

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    howtheduck  over 3 years ago

    The question for me is when did Mike and Gordon pick up Brian Enjo? He is normally such a polite and studious boy. It seems very strange for him to be out cruising the streets of Milborough with the boys.

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    howtheduck  over 3 years ago

    Happy Canada Day!!

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    Baarorso  over 3 years ago

    You’ll never get a date if you act like that Mike.;-/

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 3 years ago

    I remember cruise night in Santa Clara County, Calif. in the early/mid 1980s.

    Still going on somewhere: https://www.facebook.com/bayareacruisenight/

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    M2MM  over 3 years ago

    Every generation goes through their rites of passage. We are still in the age of the private automobile, so this is what we can expect for some time. :P

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    Guilty Bystander  over 3 years ago

    A couple times when I was a teen, I piled into a car with 2-3 buddies and went downtown of the major city we lived in, then drove around tossing pennies out the windows to the hookers working the streets. They didn’t seem to appreciate it but we figured free money was free money and they didn’t have to do anything for it.

    Not “cruising” in the traditional sense but we probably got more laughs out of it than standard-issue ogling did.

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    DorothyGlenn Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The movie just let out and the girls are walking off the popcorn.

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    KelleySweat1  over 3 years ago

    Ah, yes: Michael & his mates uttering the ‘classy’ sounds of the grunting hairy ape, not unlike Tim Allen… (lol)

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    Johnnyrico  over 3 years ago

    I’m not sure that “cruising for chicks” still a thing…

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    trainnut1956  over 3 years ago

    Well, in defense of the boys, it is a “pick-up” truck.

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Nope, still don’t

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    The_Great_Black President  over 3 years ago

    “First you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the woman.” -Tony Montana

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Good morning everyone. Hopefully you will have a blessed day. Thanks to those who posted links.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Ha. Not a chance. We need to get that adolescent P and V out of our systems before we can land a wife. Then we can’t have it back for about 50 years.

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    rshive  over 3 years ago

    The guys certainly have class. the question is what kind?

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    petermerck  over 3 years ago

    From my experience crusin’ only happens in movies.

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    JudyHendrickson  over 3 years ago

    WhenI was their ageI had a curfew,after 10.00 I’d better be home!!!!

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    Bob Blumenfeld  over 3 years ago

    Those ladies look a little too old for Michael and his friends. They may be setting their sights too high.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Today, if young guys aren’t driving a Ford 150 or better forget it!

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    1JennyJenkins  over 3 years ago

    After my kids got their own driver’s licence, and they got part time jobs soon after, we didn’t have an official curfew anymore, since by then they knew that to have time for their homework, projects, after school activities, and work, they had to make such a schedule that they got enough rest for all…

    It was a building process up to that age, and looking into the future of them leaving home and going to university and having to be completely responsible for their activities and I’m glad that it all worked out…

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    raybarb44  over 3 years ago

    No. Guys are just guys. Can’t help ourselves….

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    dv1093  over 3 years ago

    The early days of Harvey Weinstein.

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    darcyandsimon  over 3 years ago

    Don’t blame the women!

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    Katsuro Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Classy of them to only think it, and not yell it. But I don’t get why they’d need to be in a car. Well, maybe it’s the getaway opportunities if things get awkward…

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    indysteve9  over 3 years ago

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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    The Martha MacRae Fan Club  over 3 years ago

    When this strip first ran in 1992 they were shouting the “OOGH OOGH OOGH!” rather than thinking it. Look at the speech balloon in the original appearance:

    https://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/1992/06/30

    It’s another instance where Lynn Johnston has made some alterations for today’s readers. Maybe she was afraid of being accused of encouraging sexual harassment in this age of #metoo?

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    kamoolah  over 3 years ago

    Compared to the conduct of the Greatest Generation of World War 2, John, Brian, Gordon, and Michael all stink.

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    rebelstrike0  over 3 years ago

    Moinkel Porkerson!

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    Jan C  over 3 years ago

    They certainly seem to have crammed an awful lot into the hour and a half that Gordon’s father allowed them. They’ve been to 3 eating places, at least one of which served them food (see yesterday’s strip, panel 1). They stopped and picked up Brian and they are cruising for girls after 10PM. One wonders if Lynn forgot the time constraint.

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    CoreyTaylor1  over 3 years ago

    Yeah, Elly. Check the paper to see when the 19th Century’s coming back.

    Besides, if girls don’t want to be hit on, maybe they shouldn’t dress like STRIPPERS!

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    PatsyL.Paul  over 3 years ago

    Maybe they are hookers.

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    bucker39 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Back in the dark ages, it was called”dragging main”, then slipping off to a secluded place to “park”, which entailed, hopefully, going “ all the way”. For us losers, ones with cars and no dates, we would go “bushwhacking”, in which losers searched out parkers going all the way, sneaking up and hitting them with the “brights”, screaming, and then “peeling out”. If this sounds familiar to anyone, then you are an old f-rt like me… My condolences.

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    finnygirl Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Gosh, maybe the hookers I’ve seen in several cities are different than most places, but the gals in this comic don’t look anything like hookers. They look more like office workers. Not that clothing always makes a difference; I was followed in the past wearing anything from dressy office secretary clothes to grubby outside-working clothes to three layers of winter clothes and a parka! A female is a female when guys are out and about.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 3 years ago

    Not so much, but the girls were out there too, so all is good, civilization is going to survive.

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    USN1977  over 3 years ago

    Those two women are somebody’s daughters.

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Women in the night exchanging glances. Wondering in the night. What were the chances they’d be sharing love. Before the night was through.

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    j.l.farmer  over 3 years ago

    at least they are out together. they were getting some fresh air and enjoying the peace of the evening until the guys interrupted it.

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    SquidGamerGal  about 2 months ago

    I pretty sure you two should be more worried!

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