For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 12, 2021

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    Lightpainter  about 3 years ago

    Boys would never do this, and thankfully do not understand it at all.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 3 years ago

    About school… uh-huh

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    howtheduck  about 3 years ago

    Hey, Elizabeth. Mr. Lucas is not your math teacher. Miss Edwards is your math teacher. Nandini needs to straighten Elizabeth out. I expect if Elizabeth went to the right math class, it really would be an improvement in her school work.

    By the way, Nandini is my all-time favourite close friend of Elizabeth’s that we will never, ever see.

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    Asharah  about 3 years ago

    My mother claimed my oldest sister spent more time on the phone complaining about her homework than doing it.

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    GirlGeek Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I never did this. I went to school as a tomboy who watched as much anime as the boys.

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    Susan00100  about 3 years ago

    Liz must be talking on one of those “cordless” phones—progenetors of those damn iPhones that people are addicted to today.

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    Unicorn55 (Happy New Year 2022!)  about 3 years ago

    Okay, well, she does have a point.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Have you ever notice that an answer this is technically correct is usually not technically true?

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    Ozzman25  about 3 years ago

    Nandini ??

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 3 years ago

    That is her version of the call!

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    kaycstamper  about 3 years ago

    Females process in their brain by “talking.”

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    paranormal  about 3 years ago

    No school I went to allowed shorts, much less cut-offs…

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    locake  about 3 years ago

    It is not appropriate for a male teacher to comment on how a female student looks. Not unless she needs to go to the office and change something. Wearing eye shadow would not be in that category.

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    donwestonmysteries  about 3 years ago

    Elizabeth has graduated to teenage in this strip. More fodder for plots in the future. I’m sure that’s why April was born too.

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    CoreyTaylor1  about 3 years ago

    Who’s giving her this work, Elly? YOU!?

    Why don’t go whine with Connie IN PERSON?

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    Forest Dweller 54  about 3 years ago

    Cut offs? Hope she doesn’t live in Texas or Afghanistan.

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    JPuzzleWhiz  about 3 years ago

    Good thing Lynn cut off Liz’s comment about Mr. Lucas’ reaction to the girls’ makeup — because if Elly overheard it, Liz might get her mouth washed out with soap…!

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    MT Wallet   about 3 years ago

    Hyacinth Bucket hates it when something gets broken.

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    christelisbetty  about 3 years ago

    Well, I love her shirt.

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    kab2rb  about 3 years ago

    Yes talk about school just get no homework done. My own daughter she did her homework and not on phone with classwork.

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    falcon_370f  about 3 years ago

    The phone rings in the middle of the night. My father yells what you gonna do with your life%

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    asrialfeeple  about 3 years ago

    How does she go from being barefoot to wearing half a stock? Alsof, complete the outfit by wearing sandalen.

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    ryanschafer77  about 3 years ago

    It’s really interesting to be reading these strips as they’re rerun. First time I was roughly the age of the older kids and now I have kids about that age. I’ve always enjoyed FBOFW but didn’t really appreciate the Lynn’s genius until I was older. No wonder this one has been so popular for so long!

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    rfeinberg  about 3 years ago

    THAT LAST PANEL: The shaking-head, ghoulish, full-on bug-eyed closeup – it’s so Lynn.

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    masnadies  about 3 years ago

    I never do this, but it’s my youngest to a T (and yes, she is the same age as Lizzie). Of course on a cell instead of a landline, but otherwise exact.

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    SquidGamerGal  about 2 months ago

    Very well… Then you won’t mind paying the phone bill from now on!

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