Elly clearly has an expectation that Elizabeth will go to college or university. However, what we don't know is if Elly intends for Elizabeth to follow in her footsteps and use her experience in higher education to get a man.
More concerning is that Elizabeth appears to be following in Michael's footsteps and as a Grade 10 student is blissfully unaware of what it takes to go to a university. Michael also remained ignorant and expected his mother to figure it out for him even in his Grade 12 year.
They aren't prepared for life in university because Elly never realized what her parents had to do to get her accepted and because John doesn't realize that she doesn't. He farms out raising his children to a woman whom he knows to be a blithering imbecile who needs to have her hand held but chee, he can't understand why the kids are so ill-prepared for the real damn world.
"Does it cost a lot to go to university?" Maybe, but that has nothing to do with the check your mom is writing, Liz. More to the point, it costs a lot of money to raise a spoiled brat and to continue to enable that spoiled brat.
And I continue to be astounded at the convoluted logic of Elly's "you'll be writing checks to ME" response to Liz. Liz needs to pay her mother for the privilege of not making her mother pay for her college tuition? Liz isn't saying she will continue to live at home, only that she might not go to college. How does Elly plan to extract a penalty from her daughter for failing to go to college?
Finally, we see Elly waxing poetic about how "the boys" have their plans all set. Even when this strip was originally published, "he's going into Journalism" would have been met with an eyeroll from anyone who understood anything about the job market. It's about as marketable as a degree in English. And since Michael basically drops out of the job market well before the age of thirty, his degree in Journalism turns out to be as useful as Elly's in English anyway.
Michael spent four years in college suffering with tests and spending thousands of dollars of his parents' money on tuition and apartments and trips and food so he could be in the workplace for approximately fifteen minutes- fifteen minutes he spent whining about the job until finally quitting because it wasn't enjoyable 100 percent of the time. The only people I can think of who made more of a hash of a degree are my siblings.
People allow this blubber-skulled nit to wreak havoc because we live in a meritocracy (merito = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant with a rich daddy, cracy = who has a penis).
It's an incredible luxury to spent four years in college just to "go where your heart takes you" upon graduation. At least Liz actually becomes a teacher and apparently continues to teach for a number of years until (I presume) quitting because someone has to do the domestic work at Anthony's Ridiculous Bed and Breakfast. Of my mother's four children who went to college, two of us actually used our degrees as conduits to careers, while the other two might as well have just saved the money and gone to work (not that college was a massive expense in the early 1980s, but still.)
The problem is that Lynn/Elly doesn't understand what a luxury it is or appreciate the sacrifices her parents made on her behalf. The only thing I see is a dull mind who thinks that her cruel mother doesn't love her and wants her to die alone with only a degree to keep her company. We saw where that sort of non-thought leads a while back, didn't we?
And I continue to be astounded at the convoluted logic of Elly's "you'll be writing checks to ME" response to Liz. Liz needs to pay her mother for the privilege of not making her mother pay for her college tuition? Liz isn't saying she will continue to live at home, only that she might not go to college. How does Elly plan to extract a penalty from her daughter for failing to go to college?
The imbecile logic is that Elly doesn't plan on running a boarding house........until such time as she does have adult children whom she makes a display of being generous to. End result: a nitwit holding an ice scraper like a damn scepter because she's the Queen Of The Imbeciles
unable to understand why people take advantage of phony generosity.
Like I said before, she's bitching about having access to FOUR cars. Lots of people can't even have ONE car. That's not first world problems. That's 0th world problems.
I have to put up with all kinds of bullshit because public transit SUCKS and I don't feel the least bit sorry for her. It goes waaaaaaaaay beyond being taken out of the story.
Also, Liz should ask John about the high cost of subsidizing someone else being a complete idiot. If he were honest, he'd tell her about the nincompoop he married.
How does Elly plan to extract a penalty from her daughter for failing to go to college?
She would have to charge less for Liz to rent her room from Elly than it would cost Liz to rent an apartment. Elizabeth, on the other hand, would have the humiliation of paying to live in her room she has lived in for all her life.
Elly clearly has an expectation that Elizabeth will go to college or university. However, what we don't know is if Elly intends for Elizabeth to follow in her footsteps and use her experience in higher education to get a man.
More concerning is that Elizabeth appears to be following in Michael's footsteps and as a Grade 10 student is blissfully unaware of what it takes to go to a university. Michael also remained ignorant and expected his mother to figure it out for him even in his Grade 12 year.
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They aren't prepared for life in university because Elly never realized what her parents had to do to get her accepted and because John doesn't realize that she doesn't. He farms out raising his children to a woman whom he knows to be a blithering imbecile who needs to have her hand held but chee, he can't understand why the kids are so ill-prepared for the real damn world.
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It is the sad situation that Lynn writes comic strips about college applications that shows she knows nothing about college applications.
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"Does it cost a lot to go to university?" Maybe, but that has nothing to do with the check your mom is writing, Liz. More to the point, it costs a lot of money to raise a spoiled brat and to continue to enable that spoiled brat.
And I continue to be astounded at the convoluted logic of Elly's "you'll be writing checks to ME" response to Liz. Liz needs to pay her mother for the privilege of not making her mother pay for her college tuition? Liz isn't saying she will continue to live at home, only that she might not go to college. How does Elly plan to extract a penalty from her daughter for failing to go to college?
Finally, we see Elly waxing poetic about how "the boys" have their plans all set. Even when this strip was originally published, "he's going into Journalism" would have been met with an eyeroll from anyone who understood anything about the job market. It's about as marketable as a degree in English. And since Michael basically drops out of the job market well before the age of thirty, his degree in Journalism turns out to be as useful as Elly's in English anyway.
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It's a whole lot like how Hyacinth Bucket allows herself to not speculate that her son is gay.
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Michael spent four years in college suffering with tests and spending thousands of dollars of his parents' money on tuition and apartments and trips and food so he could be in the workplace for approximately fifteen minutes- fifteen minutes he spent whining about the job until finally quitting because it wasn't enjoyable 100 percent of the time. The only people I can think of who made more of a hash of a degree are my siblings.
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People allow this blubber-skulled nit to wreak havoc because we live in a meritocracy (merito = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant with a rich daddy, cracy = who has a penis).
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It's an incredible luxury to spent four years in college just to "go where your heart takes you" upon graduation. At least Liz actually becomes a teacher and apparently continues to teach for a number of years until (I presume) quitting because someone has to do the domestic work at Anthony's Ridiculous Bed and Breakfast. Of my mother's four children who went to college, two of us actually used our degrees as conduits to careers, while the other two might as well have just saved the money and gone to work (not that college was a massive expense in the early 1980s, but still.)
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The problem is that Lynn/Elly doesn't understand what a luxury it is or appreciate the sacrifices her parents made on her behalf. The only thing I see is a dull mind who thinks that her cruel mother doesn't love her and wants her to die alone with only a degree to keep her company. We saw where that sort of non-thought leads a while back, didn't we?
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And I continue to be astounded at the convoluted logic of Elly's "you'll be writing checks to ME" response to Liz. Liz needs to pay her mother for the privilege of not making her mother pay for her college tuition? Liz isn't saying she will continue to live at home, only that she might not go to college. How does Elly plan to extract a penalty from her daughter for failing to go to college?
The imbecile logic is that Elly doesn't plan on running a boarding house........until such time as she does have adult children whom she makes a display of being generous to. End result: a nitwit holding an ice scraper like a damn scepter because she's the Queen Of The Imbeciles
unable to understand why people take advantage of phony generosity.
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Like I said before, she's bitching about having access to FOUR cars. Lots of people can't even have ONE car. That's not first world problems. That's 0th world problems.
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I have to put up with all kinds of bullshit because public transit SUCKS and I don't feel the least bit sorry for her. It goes waaaaaaaaay beyond being taken out of the story.
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Lynn only deigns to mix with poors to show off. Wonder if she knows what a tumbril is.
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Also, Liz should ask John about the high cost of subsidizing someone else being a complete idiot. If he were honest, he'd tell her about the nincompoop he married.
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How does Elly plan to extract a penalty from her daughter for failing to go to college?
She would have to charge less for Liz to rent her room from Elly than it would cost Liz to rent an apartment. Elizabeth, on the other hand, would have the humiliation of paying to live in her room she has lived in for all her life.
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