Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for November 19, 2012

Alice cuts to the chase…

Way to go to put Peter Otterloop, Sr. on the spot, Peter Otterloop, Jr.

Maybe Miss Bilss wants you to learn about frustration and frivolity.

A parallelogram in which angles are oblique and adjacent sides are of unequal length.

All rhomboids are parallelograms, but not all parallelograms are rhomboids. A rhombus is parallelogram, but not a rhomboid. A three-dimensional rhomboid is a parallelopiped. Got it?

This has to be a first, but I agree with Alice this time, as well.

Petey’s question was unfair. Dad never said he knew all about shapes and colors, only that he knew shapes and colors. It’s good to know what a square is. Heck it’s even good to know what an octagon is – and that if you’re in a car and see a red one, it might be good to stop.

They’re all a bunch of L7’s.

Anyone remember the Calvin and Hobbes story where he makes a leaf collection? I believe it got quite interesting…even involving aliens at one point…

Dad knows shapes and colors except for those two.

Ah, the old “I’m a grown-up” ploy! It’s a good thing Peter is mild-mannered, Petey, or you might earn a severe reprimand….

Rhomboids are blue; parallelograms are yellow.

Rhomboid is equilateral.

I think you need Preparation R for rhomboids

i Love Peter’s face in the last panel, his head looks like a balloon!!!

Love to see Petey smiling in panel 3!