"It's official." What a clunky, awkward way to say "my 45th birthday has come and gone." She makes it sound like some record-keeper has handed her a "You are Now Recognized as 45 Years of Age" certificate.
My dad lived to within a month of his 90th birthday, and my mother is 92. So I figure I'm two-thirds through my life. But my dad's parents died in their 70s, and my mother's parents died at 48 and 75, so who the hell knows?
You don't know ages for sure. I usually take the national averages and divide that in half
The average life expectancy for males in 2024 is approximately 74.8 years. However, the current average life expectancy for the United States as a whole in 2024 is 79.89 years.
Around 40 would be middle-aged based on the average, but if you are male, then you are looking at 37.4. At 45 and 46, Elly and John have been middle-aged for awhile.
the woman has worse age issues than Norma Desmond, and Norma had something of an excuse, given how Hollywood has always had very little regard for any woman who isn't young.
True. Neither Elly or Lynn's position was dependent on physical beauty. I have seen a picture of the woman with whom her second husband had the affair (because she used to work for Lynn). She was actually a little heavier than Lynn and not much younger. As near as I can tell from the way Lynn has described her in her notes and in The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston, the main attraction to her would be that she supported Rod in some of his ideas for Lynn's business, when Lynn was adamantly opposed to the same ideas.
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Which is an unexpected benefit of her later decision to put Elly's birthday in the last week of August.
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The rare moment when Elly and John say they are going to do something and actually do it.
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Instead of not doing it and blaming the children.
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I know. It's amazingly unElly and John-like.
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These two must have wandered over from the Sundayverse.
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"It's official." What a clunky, awkward way to say "my 45th birthday has come and gone." She makes it sound like some record-keeper has handed her a "You are Now Recognized as 45 Years of Age" certificate.
My dad lived to within a month of his 90th birthday, and my mother is 92. So I figure I'm two-thirds through my life. But my dad's parents died in their 70s, and my mother's parents died at 48 and 75, so who the hell knows?
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It also strikes me that these people never considered themselves to be young. They were always lamenting a youth that they apparently never enjoyed.
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They hated being kids and they hate being adults. They're just weird.
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True. Elly has been complaining about her appearance since the very first year of the comic strip, back in 1979, when Lynn and Elly were both 32.
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You don't know ages for sure. I usually take the national averages and divide that in half
The average life expectancy for males in 2024 is approximately 74.8 years. However, the current average life expectancy for the United States as a whole in 2024 is 79.89 years.
Around 40 would be middle-aged based on the average, but if you are male, then you are looking at 37.4. At 45 and 46, Elly and John have been middle-aged for awhile.
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the woman has worse age issues than Norma Desmond, and Norma had something of an excuse, given how Hollywood has always had very little regard for any woman who isn't young.
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True. Neither Elly or Lynn's position was dependent on physical beauty. I have seen a picture of the woman with whom her second husband had the affair (because she used to work for Lynn). She was actually a little heavier than Lynn and not much younger. As near as I can tell from the way Lynn has described her in her notes and in The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston, the main attraction to her would be that she supported Rod in some of his ideas for Lynn's business, when Lynn was adamantly opposed to the same ideas.
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