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Lizzy B has solved 15766 puzzles but only created 13.. I have a niece whose middle name is Elizabeth, my sister calls her Lizard Breath.. or Lizzy Bee

#1: Lizzy B (lizzyb) on Mar 29, 2024 [SPOILER]

I'm honored!!

I love it! My brother called me Lizard Breath, and in almost every context of my life (middle school, previous jobs, etc.), there has been at least one person who decided to call me Lizard :)
Also, wow, I didn't realized I'd solved that many!

Yay, I'm glad you love it. That's cool, another Lizard Breath.. I promise it's a term of endearment!

A zillion years ago I loved a comic in the Sunday papers called "For Better or For Worse." It showed a Canadian family with cute kids who grew up over the years that the comic strip ran. The older brother was named Michael, and he sometimes called his sister Elizabeth "Lizard Breath," which his mom was not thrilled about. Lynn Johnston, the author, patterned the characters after her own family, and the mom after herself.

Cute. Congrats, Lizzy!

Nice!

Valerie, my morning newspaper The Hartford Courant has been rerunning that entire strip, daily and Sunday. They started over right after she retired, and now it's at the point where Michael is in his first year of college.

By the way, the Courant is the oldest continuously published newspaper in America, since 1765 (which actually predates the United States!)

It's slogan is "Older than the nation, as new as the news."

Sadly, the print media is in its death throes ...

Coolness that they are rerunning all of "For Better or For Worse"! I think Michael was still a big kid, not nearly college age, when I stopped reading it, so it's neat to know that it went on for so long.

I did like that the kids kept growing, unlike other comic strip kids who are perpetually 5 years old (I'm looking at you, Billy and Jeffy!)

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