Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 19, 2013
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May 20, 2013
Transcript:
Mom: I'd like a scoop of chocomochaloco in a sugar cone, please. Alice: I want the blue flavor. Petey: I'll have the beige flavor in a cup. Mom: Here you go, Alice. Alice: Boy oh boy! Petey: Be careful eating that thing. Alice: I am. Petey: You have to rotate it constantly. Alice: Okay. Petey: Hot humid air makes it highly unstable. Alice: OKAY. Petey: The whole mass could shift suddenly. Alice: Okay. Petey: And you don't want that to happen. Alice: Ugnk- Petey: Ancient picts painted themselves to blue to show fierceness in battle. Alice: Petey made me nervous about my ice cream! Mom: Alice, we'll have to hose to off in the drive like last time.
margueritem over 11 years ago
A repeat hose performance!
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
Alice in the final panel looks like Blooregard Q. Kazoo from “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.”
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Can Petey’s magical incantations really make ice cream grow like that?!Sorry, Alice. You’re no Pictish queen. Woad is me!
Linux0s over 11 years ago
I suppose beige flavor in a cup rarely gets out of hand.
LHPuttgrass over 11 years ago
This is a masterpiece. The growing mass of ice cream, Petey’s dire warnings, Alice’s appearance in the final panel, the architectural detail in the first, the notion of “blue” as a flavor. One for the ages.
puddlesplatt over 11 years ago
ah! I remember those big Ice Cream Cones when I was six.
ChessPirate over 11 years ago
Wasn’t Petey standing a bit too close for comfort to that rumbling disaster-about-to-happen? He might have gotten a bit of blue in his beige.
khcm1157 over 11 years ago
A Smurf is born.
lmonteros over 11 years ago
Doncha love big brothers?
Spooky D Cat over 11 years ago
Foods that are difficult to eat without making a mess: ice cream cones, popsicles, cupcakes, ribs, fried chicken, any Applebees’s hamburger…Hmmmm, what else?
Gokie5 over 11 years ago
1. Good observation about Richard’s name on the store, Lovecraft – also LHPuttgrass’s list of masterful elements. Puddlesplatt, maybe the cone just seemed bigger then.2. Yesterday I got my “Alice” a chocolate cone at Culver’s. Despite instructions on assiduous licking, she was losing ground with it and I had to run get a dish to turn the cone upside down in.3. Oh, yeah, re: the blue Picts: what’s left of a storage building on our way to and from Sheboygan is a picturesque stone foundation. I have fantasized in the past about knocking on the door of the house next to it and asking whether the occupants would mind if the Unitarian-Universalist fellowship in Sheboygan could celebrate the summer solstice there in their Pict outfits, and describing what that would entail. (I’m not a UU, just a fellow traveler, and the fellowship has folded from lack of $$, but it’s a fun fantasy.)
reynard61 over 11 years ago
What do you call a pre-Medieval Scottish dentist?
A tooth-Pict.