For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 02, 2010

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    AdamsFamily1MW  over 14 years ago

    Don’t worry, Mike. In the future Deanna will put up with far worse from you, like letting you abandon her and your kids while you run into a burning building to save your laptop. Sure, it was a laptop on which your novel was saved, but you admitted in your monthly letters that you’d backed it up and had sent copies to your mother and others, so didn’t really need it.

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    royman53  over 14 years ago

    Wrong strip, howtheduck; you linked us to a 1998 strip featuring April.

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    Salamurai  over 14 years ago

    Deanna & family move away in a year or two, I think

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    jeffreydahn  over 14 years ago

    Try this:

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    lightenup Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I make lunches every day, and I’m not too thrilled with complaints either. Now, if he helped or if he explained that he doesn’t like egg breath, then that’s fine, it can be changed. But a straightforward complaint? Too bad, that’s your lunch.

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    Donna White  over 14 years ago

    Deanna and her family already moved away and then came back because their house didn’t sell.

    Most mothers pack a frozen juice box or an ice block to keep food cold until lunch.

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    bald  over 14 years ago

    my mom used to make awesome egg sandwiches when i was in HS

    in my senior year i used to sell them to my friend johnny. then i’d buy the school lunch (which back in the mid ’60s were pretty good)

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    Nelly55  over 14 years ago

    @catlady since we didn’t have juice boxes way back when, we got 5¢ for that little half pint of milk, and my mother never thought of how to keep lunch items cool. I frequently got egg or tuna salad or cottage cheese sandwiches………and I never got sick

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    kab2rb  over 14 years ago

    I know this is an old strip. When my sister and I where young our mom would do baloney sandwich one and two cookies. Back then we didn’t do healthy. And we where hungry to. Back then gradeschool you sacked your lunch. I work pt so I fix my own lunch before going in.

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    Seed_drill  over 14 years ago

    That’s so 70s. I used to take my Goober and the Ghost Chasers lunchbox to school with me in first or second grade, but by fourth it was school lunches every day.

    Do any kids still brown bag it? I know mine doesn’t.

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    I LOVE egg salad sandwiches. My lunch was always still cold when it came time to eat it. We never put onion in it though. That’s for tuna fish. I think she’s referring to the mayonaise issues. I never got sick either.

    As far as the wrong strip link goes, back then pudding cups were “Hunt’s Snack Pack”. There was only one kind. Jello didn’t make them yet. It was a little metal can of pudding with a pull tab top. I never traded my lunches, but the fruit usually came back home.

    I had a metal, Partridge Family lunchbox. I want it back. Keith Partridge was my first husband. I was 4 or 5.

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    BigHug  over 14 years ago

    Why does Michael want sweet smelling breath? Doesn’t he know girls are yucky!

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    PatiPB  over 14 years ago

    I wouldn’t eat an egg salad sandwich unless my kids’ lives depended upon it. As for Elly’s expression, the comment about it being snooty must have been written by someone born in the 80’s. Once upon a time, it was the adults/parents who ruled the earth, not their offspring.

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    summerdog86  over 14 years ago

    I liked what PatiPB had to say.

    Lunch carried in the 50’s in a Roy Rogers and Dale Evans metal lunch box. (Wish that I still had it. It would be worth a fortune on eBay) Sandwich wrapped in waxed paper with a rubber band to hold it together. The sandwich always had a slight metal taste to it by lunch time.

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    -DukeNukem-  over 14 years ago

    What did PattiPB eat for lunch? Lemons? She should go over to Calvin and Hobbes and cheer the mother on.

    We just got money to buy hot lunches. I would have rather had my Mother’s cooking.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I never got to eat lunch at school at that age – I didn’t live far enough away. But my sandwiches had to be made correctly (crusts cut off and cut on diag) or I just wouldn’t eat them.

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    mroberts88  over 14 years ago

    Burgundy2 said, about 12 hours ago

    Paul Jones - I hope you’re not buying that e-mail myth about raw onions being “bacteria magnets” - you can check it out on Snopes.

    Like Nelly55 - I had lots of egg sandwiches and tuna sandwiches as a kid, and Mom never worried about refrigeration. And I didn’t get sick.

    Not a huge fan of Tuna, never had an egg sandwhich.

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    lorelei6361  over 14 years ago

    Yeah I wasn’t thrilled w/ my mother’s sandwich making skills. She put butter on all of them and used miracle whip, which I hate. I’ve only recently wondered why I never told her I didn’t like those things on my sandwiches. I’m guessing I didn’t realize I had a say in it. Instead I would throw the sandwich away and bum the veggies off the kids w/ hot lunches.

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