Age 35
Back in 2002, it was established that Connie Poirier was turning 50 and that Elly Patterson had turned 50 the prior year. Given this timeline, you could assume that Connie would be 35 years old in 1987. In 1986, when she went to Thunder Bay, she would be 34 and in 1987, the year she ended up with Greg, she was 35.
I can’t tell what Lynn Johnston is up to with this new-run with Connie Poiriter talking about how she is 35 and filling out a singles want ad. Has she jumped 7 years into the future to the time when Connie meets up with Greg? Has she, after skipping over the “Connie goes to Montreal” story, decided to skip over all of the Connie romance strips? Or is it something more basic like, Lynn is just making up stuff as she goes along?
I can’t tell what Lynn Johnston is up to with this new-run with Connie Poiriter talking about how she is 35 and filling out a singles want ad. Has she jumped 7 years into the future to the time when Connie meets up with Greg? Has she, after skipping over the “Connie goes to Montreal” story, decided to skip over all of the Connie romance strips? Or is it something more basic like, Lynn is just making up stuff as she goes along?
posted by howard at 11:02 PM
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howard,
Or is it something more basic like, Lynn is just making up stuff as she goes along?
All signs seem to point to Lynn doing just that. We're probably going to be subjected to her weird relationship with Ted but since Lynn feels the need to speed things along so we can all get a huge case of whiplash when we get to straight reprints, she has to change how that happens.
I concur with dc2. In one of the early strips from 1979, Elly tells a babysitter, "I'm 32." What's interesting about that is that Lynn herself was 32 in 1979. Somewhere along the way, Elly became three years younger than Lynn and, later still, four years younger. As for Connie being 35 in today's strip--this just lends credence to our theory that Lynn really doesn't care.
Oops, as forworse points out at Foobiverse, this is a redraw of a strip that happened in the original run, with only small changes to the wording. LJ had Connie thinking "35" in the original, as well. I suppose she originally imagined Connie being a few years older than Elly.
Kind of a useless comment, but the verification word I'm getting is "renurs", which, appropriately, is an anagram of "reruns."
--muzition, not signed in
Muzition, right after I posted that I concur with dc2, the word verification became something like "cuncors." I thought that was mildly freaky.
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