Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 06, 2010

Back off as fast as you can, Dill….

If I had a Pig on Wheels, I would give it to Alice.

That hat can’t help you now, Dill!

Note the eyes of Alice in the last pannel. It is a definate “Uh-Oh” moment.

i thought the 12th day of Christmas was yesterday..the 5th…

Either Lonewolf was early or Thomspon was late. I honestly don’t know who’s right.

Per the always “take it for what it’s worth” Wiki:

The Twelve Days of Christmas are the festive days beginning Christmas Day (25 December). This period is also known as Christmastide. The Twelfth Day of Christmas is 5 January[1], with the celebrations of Christmas traditionally ending on Twelfth Night and is followed by the Feast of the Epiphany on 6 January. In some traditions the first day of Epiphany and the twelfth day of Christmas overlap.

Sounds like you can make the argument either way, though this storyline may stretch out the ‘day’ in any case..

The twelfth day of Christmas would be the eve of Epiphany, cf. Halloween, the eve of All Saints Day. Keats wrote about the eve of St. Agnes. Anyway, Pete following the model of Humpty Dumpty, can give it to Viola as an unChristmas present.

I didn’t really check on this and I should’ve. I just asked my wife, who usually knows such things. The sixth is my younger daughter’s half-birthday, so we go with that.

More from Wikipedia- It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as “the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking”.[1] However, there is currently some confusion as to which night is Twelfth Night:[2] some count the night of Epiphany itself (sixth of January) to be Twelfth Night.[2] One source of this confusion is the Medieval custom of starting each new day at sunset, so that Twelfth Night precedes Twelfth Day.

HEY I didn’t get a present yesterday either.

I’m still waiting for a Viola/Twelfth Night gag…

(chirp, chirp)

Hahah, I totally gave my girlfriend “Little Big Planet” yesterday. Only cause shipping was late though….

And yeah, Dill. RUN.

Dill, turn around quickly and head for the hills, Alice has her angry eyes growing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alice you aren’t the only one who didn’t get a present .. so get over it already LOL!!!

Sorry, Fritz! I could’ve at least done a Toby Belch joke.

Why does dill come in wrong time…