# 'Sally Forth', please stop because I can't **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600 "2007-10-22T18:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/21 "2007-10-22T22:39:15Z")
I’m mildly amused by Sally’s mom. She gets some zingers in sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/22 "2007-10-22T23:57:52Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] I used to read every single comic on the comics page… [/QUOTE] Same here. For the longest time I was compelled to read every strip, even the ones that are never funny, like “For Better Or Worse”. I’ve managed to get to the point where I can skip the ones that take too long to read, like Cathy, and another one where each Sunday strip is like a chapter out of a Lewis Carroll novel (? Little help here. I don’t get the paper, just read it every Sunday when I visit my parents like a good son. 🙂 ) I still have to read every one that’s a quick read, even if I know that they aren’t going to be funny. That said, Sally Forth, IMHO, is _relatively_ funny. I’d personally rank it above Peanuts, Blondie, Hagar The Horrible, etc…; but well below Dilbert. YMobviouslydoesV. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/23 "2007-10-23T00:16:31Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] [And Howard originally drew them as a family of freakish hydrocephalic dwarves.](http://francescoexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2007/09/thats-right-fm-doesnt-draw-fucking.html) [/QUOTE] _shudder_ I remember when Howard drew the strip. Then when MacIntosh took over the art in 1992, his style was so radically different from Howard’s, that King Features Syndicate received hate mail for weeks. MacIntosh’s work at first didn’t resemble what it does now. The characters, if anything, seemed freakishly tall and skinny, and even more smirkish, if that’s possible. It took him a while to settle into his current style. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/24 "2007-10-23T00:28:14Z")
Our local paper put it out of its misery this very morning. I won’t miss it. [minor hijack] This morning they also dropped: Apartment 3-G Cathy Dennis the Menace Marmaduke Mary Worth Pardon My Planet Slylock Fox Ziggy The Quigmans (which only ran on Fridays) The above were replaced with: Baby Blues Between Friends Cul de Sac F Minus Mother Goose & Grimm Mutts Non Sequitur Red and Rover Speed Bump [/minor hijack] The only one I might occasionally miss is Pardon my Planet. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/25 "2007-10-23T00:51:57Z")
[QUOTE=Rucksinator] one where each Sunday strip is like a chapter out of a Lewis Carroll novel (? Little help here. [/QUOTE] Sounds like [Non Sequitur](http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2007/10/21/?uc_full_date=&campid=0&). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/26 "2007-10-23T01:26:50Z")
I had to stop reading the paper copy of the paper and instead read the news online for a month to break the habit of automatically reading “For Better or for Worse.” ---
**Author:** ![Ring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Ring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ring)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/27 "2007-10-23T04:03:54Z")
I have been told (I have no idea by whom) that a lot of women like SF because it has _gentle_ humor. However I totally reject any responsibility for this statement. Just leave me alone. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/28 "2007-10-23T04:12:24Z")
Sally Forth is a bitchy whiner who deserves to have a house dropped on her. Ted is lazy, whipped and incompetent. And Faye needs to stab Hillary in her whiny smirky face. I don’t like Sally Forth. It needs to sally forth and die! The only comics I’ve kept up with since I moved to college and stopped getting a morning paper are Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/29 "2007-10-23T04:18:04Z")
I like Marmaduke. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/30 "2007-10-23T04:42:51Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] I like Marmaduke. [/QUOTE] It’s okay. The nice men in the white coats will be along shortly to help you. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/31 "2007-10-23T13:19:41Z")
I once read every Sunday edition of Prince Valiant in the Age of King Arthur, just to prove to myself it sucked. It did. Does anyone put Prince Valiant clippings on their fridge? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/32 "2007-10-23T15:10:19Z")
Sally is ok - I only read three comics, though - Arlo and Janis, Sally Forth, and Luann. Husband has been reading Pearls before Swine lately - the ones with Jeffy (from Family Circus) in them were hysterical! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/33 "2007-10-24T01:14:00Z")
As another [Comics Curmudgeon](http://joshreads.com/) addict, I read Sally Forth every day (as well as Mark Trail, Mary Worth, Shylock Fox, and Judge Parker. God help me). It usually sucks a little bit more than the normal daily humor strip, due to the CONSTANT SMIRKING, but when Sally’s Mom comes on, she is fuckin’ AWESOME. Comes right out and admits she hates her 40 year old daughter…calls her unemployed thin-wristed son-in-law a fruity loser, calls her insecure 12 year old granddaughter fat. A real force of Evil Nature. Granted, I too prefer the [Wally Wood version](http://www.toonopedia.com/sallyf-1.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/34 "2007-10-24T01:18:21Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] It sounds like the OP is channelling the film **Go** : [/QUOTE] Damnit! I was coming in here to post this. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/35 "2007-10-24T01:35:35Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] Sounds like [Non Sequitur](http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2007/10/21/?uc_full_date=&campid=0&). [/QUOTE] That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/36 "2007-10-24T02:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] I had to stop reading the paper copy of the paper and instead read the news online for a month to break the habit of automatically reading “For Better or for Worse.” [/QUOTE] > **[Strip Fix Home - FBorFW Strip Fix](https://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/)** > > Daily "For Better or For Worse" comic strip by Lynn Johnson. Get your strip fix; see what the Patterson family and their friends are up to! You can thank me later. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600/37 "2007-10-24T14:17:38Z")
[QUOTE=Kilvert’s Pagan] [minor hijack] This morning they also dropped: Apartment 3-G [/QUOTE] You mean that thing was still around?? The only good part about it was it prompted a great exchange on The Golden Girls: Dorothy: Apartment 3-G? I haven’t read that in 30 years! Blanche: Let me catch you up. It’s later that afternoon… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-forth-please-stop-because-i-cant/423600.md?page=1)