It will get better, Karen Moy? I can't imagine it getting any better than it already is!
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Peggy Olson
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Thanks for your secret messages, Wanders.
Oh, Mary's platitudes are painful to anyone who's lost a loved one. Saying that it gets better is just cruel. It doesn't get better, Karen Moy. It gets different and tolerable. Yesterday, Mary said that the dead never leave us. Really? Then why can't Madi call her grandma and complain about Greta? Moy covers a topic with less depth than a greeting card. I know this, but she's struck a nerve with her trite treatment of a teenager's grief. Maybe Madi will go ballistic at the next pool party and fling salmon squares at everyone.
Do I detect a hint of Gulden's-mustard yellow among the brownness of Mary's lovingly cared-for weeds? Wow, now that's colorful! I can see why they're enthralled.
We need Madi to be more like Sally from the TV show Mad Men. When she was suffering the loss of her grandfather, her little brother, Bobby, said something ... I forget what... but Sally screamed: "He's DEAD and he's never coming back!"
On a note unrelated to the story at hand, I came across these online comics titled "Love Stories of Mary Worth" from 1949! Two issues have been scanned in.
“You mean my Gram is in these hideous brown flowers? What the #%€€ are you smoking, lady?!”
My eyes rolled so much when I read today’s strip, they nearly fell out of their sockets. I’d like to hurl stale muffins at Mary - holy moly.
On the up side, today’s strip prompted Nance’s Rainbow Grief Muffins and a Mad Men reference from HelenClark, so huzzah to both of you for finding gold in KM’s dross!
This morning I was ready to jump into the comic and slap Mary. Better still, I want to call out KM about her (usual) tone deafness about losing a love one. @Peggy Olsen, you said it all for me. I lost my mother 25 years ago. It's like it was yesterday. It doesn't get better, KM you big dummy. You learn how to cope and you are resigned to the fact that loved one isn't coming back KM acts like it's like breaking your toe and and you ask when will it get better and you hear "not long". Maybe KM gets over death that way, but most people don't. I didn't think I'd like Madi either Wanders, but right now, she's the only tolerable person in the strip. I hate Mary and her stupid platitudes and I'm disliking Myster Wynter for running off instead of trying to understand the kid's grief.
Sorry for being such a downer, but I hate when KM makes it sound like people get over a death like they would a cold.
Exactly. Both my parents are gone and it does not get better, you just learn to live with it. To say that it won't take long to get over a death is delusional. Also, your husband has been dead for quite a while Mary, if it doesn't take long, why haven't you married Jeff? KM has hit a new low even for her with this story line.
I agree with Mary. It does get better. The pain of losing someone close like a parent or grandparent is crushing at first and completely fills your thoughts. But gradually over a long period of time it becomes a different kind of pain that isn't as overwhelming. You're more able to look back and recall the joy in the relationship and not just sadness.
Since Mary has lived forever, perhaps she just isn't in touch with what death can do. Having recently watched "The Old Guard", where a group of soldiers has lived for milennia and cannot be killed (It's on Netflix right now. Great film!), the weariness expressed by these poor folks over their eternal mission of trying to make things right in a thankless world fits in somehow with the dreck spouted by Mary. What's she supposed to say when she knows HER life will go on forever, dealing with Wilbur's foibles, Toby's insecurity, Dawn's cluelessness? At least she knows Madi will be leaving and hasn't heard her spiel before, unlike us dear readers who are also stuck, like the cast of "The Old Guard", seeing the same old same old over and over. No wonder we love Madi.
I haven't really warmed up to Madi much, but it becomes clearer every day what a total $#!% her father is by dumping her on a distantly-related mummy and taking off for the outer darkness as fast as humanly possible. Not that things would be much better for her if he were there, but Mary isn't helping any. Maybe when Greta bites her, her rabies shot will take her mind off dead grandma. Mary can tell her she will quickly get over the injection pain.
Oh boy, Moy. You flatten human emotions better than a crushed cardboard box. Stomp - attend to my flowers! Stomp - attend to my platitudes! Stomp - attend to my tasty splak sandwich! Stomp - oh never mind.
I'm waiting for Madi's hair to spontaneously turn into demure brown piglets and for her to take up pinochle poolside by the beautiful pool with Toby and Ian, while Mary hums the Hearse Song and Mr Wynter lies prone on the lawn as Greta sniffs his pockets for treats...
Still waiting for an update on Toby's dessert. How long ago was that? Also wondering why the identity of Madi's grandmother is shrouded in mystery and wordy descriptors.
If only these two things were going to be wonderful plot twists instead of dumb things that were dropped dead ends.
FRIDAY That flower is a day lily. Day lilies got that name (duh!) because the blossoms only last one day, even when left on the plant. How comforted will Madi be the next day when she has a pile of shriveled petals to remind her of her late Gram? Nice work, Mary (urgh)!
Hard to believe Mary has day lilies growing on her balcony. They aren't a California flower. Here in Ohio, they tend to grow wild on the side of the road, particularly used in the past to camouflage (ahem) an outhouse...
I think it’d be a lot more interesting that when she gets home behind closed doors, Madi reverts back to her nasty self and laughs at being able to fool Mary with a few tears and an acting job as a grieving teenager.
Seriously, Mary... how generous of you to give Madi a single flower that will be dead by tomorrow. You could have at least given her dozens of flowers that will be dead by tomorrow. Not sure what that would mean though... that everyone in her life will die... okay, maybe the one flower was a good idea after all...
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Thanks for your secret messages, Wanders.
Oh, Mary's platitudes are painful to anyone who's lost a loved one. Saying that it gets better is just cruel. It doesn't get better, Karen Moy. It gets different and tolerable. Yesterday, Mary said that the dead never leave us. Really? Then why can't Madi call her grandma and complain about Greta? Moy covers a topic with less depth than a greeting card. I know this, but she's struck a nerve with her trite treatment of a teenager's grief. Maybe Madi will go ballistic at the next pool party and fling salmon squares at everyone.
Do I detect a hint of Gulden's-mustard yellow among the brownness of Mary's lovingly cared-for weeds? Wow, now that's colorful! I can see why they're enthralled.
-- Scottie McW.
Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
"And The Inspiration For Mary's Rainbow Grief Muffins Is Born".
Lost. Will.
When?
Not long.
With.
We need Madi to be more like Sally from the TV show Mad Men. When she was suffering the loss of her grandfather, her little brother, Bobby, said something ... I forget what... but Sally screamed: "He's DEAD and he's never coming back!"
HelenClark
On a note unrelated to the story at hand, I came across these online comics titled "Love Stories of Mary Worth" from 1949! Two issues have been scanned in.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1374
“You mean my Gram is in these hideous brown flowers? What the #%€€ are you smoking, lady?!”
My eyes rolled so much when I read today’s strip, they nearly fell out of their sockets. I’d like to hurl stale muffins at Mary - holy moly.
On the up side, today’s strip prompted Nance’s Rainbow Grief Muffins and a Mad Men reference from HelenClark, so huzzah to both of you for finding gold in KM’s dross!
This morning I was ready to jump into the comic and slap Mary. Better still, I want to call out KM about her (usual) tone deafness about losing a love one. @Peggy Olsen, you said it all for me. I lost my mother 25 years ago. It's like it was yesterday. It doesn't get better, KM you big dummy. You learn how to cope and you are resigned to the fact that loved one isn't coming back KM acts like it's like breaking your toe and and you ask when will it get better and you hear "not long". Maybe KM gets over death that way, but most people don't. I didn't think I'd like Madi either Wanders, but right now, she's the only tolerable person in the strip. I hate Mary and her stupid platitudes and I'm disliking Myster Wynter for running off instead of trying to understand the kid's grief.
Sorry for being such a downer, but I hate when KM makes it sound like people get over a death like they would a cold.
Exactly. Both my parents are gone and it does not get better, you just learn to live with it. To say that it won't take long to get over a death is delusional. Also, your husband has been dead for quite a while Mary, if it doesn't take long, why haven't you married Jeff? KM has hit a new low even for her with this story line.
I agree with Mary. It does get better. The pain of losing someone close like a parent or grandparent is crushing at first and completely fills your thoughts. But gradually over a long period of time it becomes a different kind of pain that isn't as overwhelming. You're more able to look back and recall the joy in the relationship and not just sadness.
Since Mary has lived forever, perhaps she just isn't in touch with what death can do. Having recently watched "The Old Guard", where a group of soldiers has lived for milennia and cannot be killed (It's on Netflix right now. Great film!), the weariness expressed by these poor folks over their eternal mission of trying to make things right in a thankless world fits in somehow with the dreck spouted by Mary. What's she supposed to say when she knows HER life will go on forever, dealing with Wilbur's foibles, Toby's insecurity, Dawn's cluelessness? At least she knows Madi will be leaving and hasn't heard her spiel before, unlike us dear readers who are also stuck, like the cast of "The Old Guard", seeing the same old same old over and over. No wonder we love Madi.
I haven't really warmed up to Madi much, but it becomes clearer every day what a total $#!% her father is by dumping her on a distantly-related mummy and taking off for the outer darkness as fast as humanly possible. Not that things would be much better for her if he were there, but Mary isn't helping any. Maybe when Greta bites her, her rabies shot will take her mind off dead grandma. Mary can tell her she will quickly get over the injection pain.
Such great comments today, as ever.
Oh boy, Moy. You flatten human emotions better than a crushed cardboard box. Stomp - attend to my flowers! Stomp - attend to my platitudes! Stomp - attend to my tasty splak sandwich! Stomp - oh never mind.
I'm waiting for Madi's hair to spontaneously turn into demure brown piglets and for her to take up pinochle poolside by the beautiful pool with Toby and Ian, while Mary hums the Hearse Song and Mr Wynter lies prone on the lawn as Greta sniffs his pockets for treats...
Ole Doc
Still waiting for an update on Toby's dessert. How long ago was that?
Also wondering why the identity of Madi's grandmother is shrouded in mystery and wordy descriptors.
If only these two things were going to be wonderful plot twists instead of dumb things that were dropped dead ends.
FRIDAY
That flower is a day lily. Day lilies got that name (duh!) because the blossoms only last one day, even when left on the plant. How comforted will Madi be the next day when she has a pile of shriveled petals to remind her of her late Gram? Nice work, Mary (urgh)!
Hard to believe Mary has day lilies growing on her balcony. They aren't a California flower. Here in Ohio, they tend to grow wild on the side of the road, particularly used in the past to camouflage (ahem) an outhouse...
I think it’d be a lot more interesting that when she gets home behind closed doors, Madi reverts back to her nasty self and laughs at being able to fool Mary with a few tears and an acting job as a grieving teenager.
Seriously, Mary... how generous of you to give Madi a single flower that will be dead by tomorrow. You could have at least given her dozens of flowers that will be dead by tomorrow. Not sure what that would mean though... that everyone in her life will die... okay, maybe the one flower was a good idea after all...
HelenClark
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