For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 05, 2024

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    howtheduck  2 months ago

    The music is so loud it drowns out Elly all except for the punctuation. I wonder how loud she needs to go to get the punctuation too.

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    Argythree  2 months ago

    She has the music loud so she can’t hear April, probably…

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    eromlig  2 months ago

    Whippersnapper! ..MY generation went deaf the old-fashioned way — by going to rock concerts.

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    KA7DRE Premium Member 2 months ago

    I’m sorry to see that Roger Daltry of the “Who” has gone deaf from all the loud concerts theyhave done.. some exceeding 120 decibels. Hope Elizabeth doesn’t suffer the same fate.

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    snsurone76  2 months ago

    And if she becomes permanently deaf, she’ll really be rid of her mother’s big mouth!

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    snsurone76  2 months ago

    Isn’t April too old for that “baby” car seat? What are the laws in Canada regarding kids travelling in cars?

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    conuly  2 months ago

    Elly is such a control freak she kept trying to make her dog bark at the door… but she’s not willing to simply take her daughter’s headphones off her head?

    Which is actually what I would do if I could hear the child and they showed no signs of hearing me. Their long-term hearing is more important than the look of their door.

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    French Persons Premium Member 2 months ago

    Heh. I did the same thing.

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    SquidGamerGal  2 months ago

    Too late! Her hearing has been lost…

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    Wren Fahel  2 months ago

    We didn’t use headphones in the car when we went on long car trips. I remember the last one: it was just my parents, my younger brother & me, but we stopped in Maryland to pick u my oldest sister. She was 30 & I was 17. My dad was good about having the radio on pop stations (although he preferred country). However, I’m sure he was regretting that when “Crocodile Rock” came on & my sister & I really got into belting the ♫ LAAAAAAA lalalala LAAAAAAAA ♫ part. Yeah, she may have been 30 and me, 17, but when that song came on, we both turned 12!

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    BJDucer  2 months ago

    I gotta admit, I took the headphones away from my daughter once when she was a kid and I could hear the music coming from her headset in the backseat of the car after telling her the music was too loud and she ignored me. Fast forward twenty years and she now has 2 kids of her own and has to deal with the same thing. Although now the earbuds are wireless and get lost much more easily. I don’t think I’ve ever know anyone to lose their wired earplugs.

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    dcdete.  2 months ago

    I’m not that familiar with 1990’s music. but would “Boom Chaka-Chaka Boom” be recorded by Chaka Khan by any chance?

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    jtrester Premium Member 2 months ago

    I did this at work once, my boss yelled at me saying that I wouldn’t be able to hear her, I said that was the idea. I got yelled at again but it was worth it.

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    ctolson  2 months ago

    And Ellie hasn’t reached back and snatched the head -phones off Elizabeth’s head by the fourth panel because? My mom would have after the first ask with no responce.

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    Foob  2 months ago

    Second panel: Are the not letting Liz bathe during this trip?

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    Anon4242  2 months ago

    Yep, there’s a lot of young people going deaf from stuff like that.Honorable (?) mention to the guys playing the music loud enough to be heard/felt through their closed car windows AND my closed car windows. They’ll never hear any emergency vehicle sirens and it’s just dangerous to be driving that way.Although just once, while I was waiting in a high school parking lot, to drown out the ‘f this f that’ rap I was hearing, I blared the 1812 Overture. Surprisingly, the guy turned his volume down a bit.

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    Doug K  2 months ago

    It also helps if you (can) have your eyes closed.

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    ladykat  2 months ago

    That’s why.

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    waynemadison  2 months ago

    Well that’s one way of dealing with being forced to go on a trip…

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    CoreyTaylor1  2 months ago

    Cru-Elly, if it drowns out your constant b—-hing, it’s all worth it.

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    lnrokr55  2 months ago

    Yeah baby, rock on!

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    EXCALABUR  2 months ago

    Are we there yet?

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    mindjob  2 months ago

    I played my stereo in my car so loud that I woke the next door neighbors. They were not happy

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    kathleenhicks62  2 months ago

    Logical and she can’t hear Mom either.

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    melodymucisa  2 months ago

    Does anyone know what year this was originally made?

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    CultofFarley  2 months ago

    Pen-is-headed Farley killer

    Pen-is-headed Farley killer

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    rebelstrike0  2 months ago

    Good thing John is keeping his eyes on the road. While Elly is arguing with Elizabeth; a red Ferrari drives by driven by a blonde

    Tonight’s the night we’re gonna make it happen

    Tonight we’ll put all other things aside

    Give in this time and show me some affection

    We’re going’ for those pleasures in the night

    I want to love you, feel you

    Wrap myself around you

    I want to squeeze you, please you

    I just can’t get enough

    And if you move real slow, I’ll let it go

    I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it

    I’m about to lose control and I think I like it

    I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it

    And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I want you

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  2 months ago

    LOVE that Lawrence Welk…..

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    John Jorgensen  2 months ago

    Doggone? Really? Doggone?

    Well, I suppose that last April, the dog was gone.

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    eced52  2 months ago

    Now you know why, Ellie.

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    eced52  2 months ago

    Don’t worry Ellie, at this rate she will be deaf by the time she turns 21.

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    Strawberry King  2 months ago

    “Boom-sha-ka-la-ka!!”

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    samfran6-0  2 months ago

    All this about “chaka boom” reminds me of when I had an MRI. I was really nervous and the Tech blindfolded me to set me at ease and gave me earplugs. While in the “tube” I could hear the machine doing it’s thing. Sounded like a bass drum playing. I kept tapping my feet and was told to be still. When I was brought out, I told them “it had a nice beat and you could dance to it”. (American Bandstand) LOL

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    Strawberry King  2 months ago

    I was the same with my portable CD player.

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    markkahler52  2 months ago

    Is that actually Morse code Elly is speaking in? If so, can anyone translate it, please?!

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    CrzyDyeman  2 months ago

    If you know, you know.

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    BlitzMcD  2 months ago

    That’s a bit ironic, as the Ol’ Hippie’s peers usually went to those “Dude! Kegger! Party Animal! FM, man!!” shows where the volume was beyond the threshold of pain. That said, there is still a generation gap. We’re on the other side of it now. And we’re STILL RIGHT!!!!

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    lisaegray  2 months ago

    She’ll be sorry! I am! I used to do that, and now I’m 66 and have hearing problems!

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    dustoffer  2 months ago

    And I wonder who will have a noise-induced hearing loss before she’s 30?

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    HodgeElmwood  2 months ago

    She’ll lose her hearing by the time she’s 20 if she keeps that up.

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    Mekoides  2 months ago

    Will Elizabeth have that self-satisfied grin when she can’t hear and has to wear hearing aids? HA HA HA

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    r.feinberg  2 months ago

    Lizzie is … dead?!? Oh NO!!!

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