Giving Elly the Finger
I am not sure what the real meaning behind today's reprint in For Better or For Worse is, but I have a few guesses.
1. Pattersons are so excessively messy, it is difficult to find a moment when all of them have clean hands.
2. John, Mike and Lizzie all remember the last time Elly needed a finger to tie something and how difficult it was to get untangled. Therefore they intentionally get their hands messy when Elly starts wrapping packages.
3. Elly learned only one way to wrap a package and that is where another person holds the knot with their finger, and faced with a situation where there are no free fingers, she resorts to her usual method of getting people to clean their hands -- shrieking at the top of her lungs.
4. Elly cannot accomplish even the most basic tasks without help.
5. Elly is an idiot.
1. Pattersons are so excessively messy, it is difficult to find a moment when all of them have clean hands.
2. John, Mike and Lizzie all remember the last time Elly needed a finger to tie something and how difficult it was to get untangled. Therefore they intentionally get their hands messy when Elly starts wrapping packages.
3. Elly learned only one way to wrap a package and that is where another person holds the knot with their finger, and faced with a situation where there are no free fingers, she resorts to her usual method of getting people to clean their hands -- shrieking at the top of her lungs.
4. Elly cannot accomplish even the most basic tasks without help.
5. Elly is an idiot.
posted by howard at 10:42 PM
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6. All of the above. This is, of course, because Canada Post will not mail packages tied with twine. A companion strip would, of course, feature Elly screaming at the poor sap who told her that this was the fifth time this year that she had to tell Flapandhonk that.
3, 4 and 5 are a given, that's for sure.
dreadedcandiru2,
This is, of course, because Canada Post will not mail packages tied with twine. Is this a practice that they used to allow back in 1980?
I'm not sure; it was, after all, thirty years ago and I really wasn't paying attention to things like that.
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