That would mean something that isn't consistent with the person we know. It would mean he'd be a guy who doesn't think that upset children are trying to ruin his day, spit on his efforts to provide for them and disrespect his authority. That ain't John Patterson!
You have a good point there. One of the advantages of making every character to be like Lynn Johnston is that they are remarkably consistent in their arrogance. The guy who would have had the most problem with John Patterson would be Rod Johnston and unfortunately for him, he was married to John Patterson.
The third pre-Patterson treasury has "the poor, ill-used, long-suffering, never-acknowledged" mother of one strip look as if she's going to explode with rage because her mother sabotaged her by suggesting that accidentally breaking a pot stupidly left in the way by an idiot woman didn't merit the perfectly reasonable response of tanning the kid's ass and calling him a monster no one could or should love.
Elly leaves pottery birds and bottles of varnish around; if unattended toddlers get into them, it's because those unattended toddlers hate their mom. gawd punished all of humanity because two people he created with no sense of right and wrong ate from a tree he planted right in the middle of the garden; not being gawd, this is the best that Elly can do.
Now and then we put notes on the patients’ charts to let us know something personal about them for the next visit. TG might mean, “tends to gag.” PTIN could mean: “periodontal treatment for inflammation necessary,” but in reality, it meant, “pain in the neck!”
while not realizing that she has a notation of her own: SHPOS.
Did I ever get into hot water over this one! Clinic staff wrote to say that it was a terrible thing to write notes in patients’ files suggesting they were difficult to work with and that PITN should never have been used. Well, we did write small notations like this just for our own information…and, the letters were: PITA!
Last time she did not make the same error with the acronym.
I was going to comment that it seems like a bad idea to use a notation that could mean at least two different things. How would they remember WHEN "PITN" means "pain in the neck" and when it means "periodontal treatment for inflammation necessary"? Getting it wrong in either direction could cause problems.
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You have a good point there. One of the advantages of making every character to be like Lynn Johnston is that they are remarkably consistent in their arrogance. The guy who would have had the most problem with John Patterson would be Rod Johnston and unfortunately for him, he was married to John Patterson.
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He's probably one of the few people who could legitimately name a fictional jackass as a co-respondent in a divorce proceeding.
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The third pre-Patterson treasury has "the poor, ill-used, long-suffering, never-acknowledged" mother of one strip look as if she's going to explode with rage because her mother sabotaged her by suggesting that accidentally breaking a pot stupidly left in the way by an idiot woman didn't merit the perfectly reasonable response of tanning the kid's ass and calling him a monster no one could or should love.
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Elly leaves pottery birds and bottles of varnish around; if unattended toddlers get into them, it's because those unattended toddlers hate their mom. gawd punished all of humanity because two people he created with no sense of right and wrong ate from a tree he planted right in the middle of the garden; not being gawd, this is the best that Elly can do.
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I never heard of ANYBODY getting a prize for going to the dentist!
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Neither have I. I've heard of getting a free toothbrush and fun-sized tube of toothpaste but not a full-on bribe like that.
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somewhat OT but why do they call tiny little candy bars "fun size"? Fun size should mean a candy bar that's as big as a horse's leg!
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It seems to be fun watching kids be disappointed.
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Lynn's Comments:
Lynn includes herself into Rod's life:
Now and then we put notes on the patients’ charts to let us know something personal about them for the next visit. TG might mean, “tends to gag.” PTIN could mean: “periodontal treatment for inflammation necessary,” but in reality, it meant, “pain in the neck!”
while not realizing that she has a notation of her own: SHPOS.
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Wednesday October 10, 2018 Lynn’s Comments:
Did I ever get into hot water over this one! Clinic staff wrote to say that it was a terrible thing to write notes in patients’ files suggesting they were difficult to work with and that PITN should never have been used. Well, we did write small notations like this just for our own information…and, the letters were: PITA!
Last time she did not make the same error with the acronym.
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I was going to comment that it seems like a bad idea to use a notation that could mean at least two different things. How would they remember WHEN "PITN" means "pain in the neck" and when it means "periodontal treatment for inflammation necessary"? Getting it wrong in either direction could cause problems.
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"periodontal treatment for inflammation necessary" would be PTIN, so you could distinguish it that way.
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