Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 22, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Dill, are you sure you need more urgency?

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    rayannina  over 15 years ago

    “I’ll give you zest and urgency, Dill!!!”

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    Petey’s right. Water will short out their itty biddy lightbulbs. Dangerous game.

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    shewith5  over 15 years ago

    Dill is a true scholar

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    GeeDee Premium Member over 15 years ago

    I sure hope Dill can outrun her. Unfortunately, Tennessee Charlie, I can remember Maggie & Jiggs. Maggie was a tough old gal.

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    COWBOY7  over 15 years ago

    Way to go Dill! This one was looking to be dull! ROTFLMAO!

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    kimberphi  over 15 years ago

    Who knew DILL liked to live on the edge!?!

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    pibfan868  over 15 years ago

    Dill gets a little wry at times…. :)

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    JanLC  over 15 years ago

    I remember Maggie & Jiggs. Talk about hen-pecking!! Jiggs couldn’t sneeze without Maggie going after him with a rolling pin. I also remember once Jiggs wanted Corned beef and cabbage for dinner, so he told Maggie and the cook how much he hated it. Of course, that’s what they fixed.

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    limonozo  over 15 years ago

    all of the abuse she heaps on the poor kid…. eventually you snap!! LOL RUN DILL RUN!!!! Boy you did it now!

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Any comment that begins “Petey says…” is probably better drowned out anyway.

    And if you combine yesterday’s strip with today’s, it leads to an old Pogo Possum gag. Rackety Coon chile’ has a water pistol and he aims it at the sun. Churchy grabs it and says “Keerful! You wanna put that OUT?”

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    bald  over 15 years ago

    the heck with what petey says…

    dill just wanted to get some aerobic exercise for the day, and alice is glad to oblige

    i too remember magie and jiggs, and the katzenjammer kids which were among my favorite strips way back when.

    on another note, yesterday’s strip showed alice throwing mulch at the stars, the movie coraline which was released yesterday has a reference to mulch in it at about 41 minutes

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    Ushindi  over 15 years ago

    Oh, yeah, Maggie & Jiggs, and “Our Boarding House” with Martha and Major Hoople? Boy, YOU guys must be old.

    Edit: That made me think, of Captain Easy, Freckles and His Friends, Boots and Her Buddies, Terry and the Pirates, Alley OOp…… Boy, YOU guys must be old.

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    Saucy1121 Premium Member over 15 years ago

    dailyink still runs vintage strips. They have Maggie and Jiggs (Bringing Up Father), Krazy Kat, Brick Bradford, Rip Kirby as well as the original Phantom, Beetle Baily and Flash Gordon. The Little King is there on Sundays.

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    serenasakitty  over 15 years ago

    I remember reading all those comics in newspapers my grandmother had saved for years. [I come by my packrat tendencies naturally]. Although they were from years before my time, I still enjoyed them.

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    From the various comments here and there, I can’t help but think that the majority of us regular comic readers are in the 50, 60 and well above range.

    If so, I’d like to think it’s because we’re a carefree and light hearted bunch, but maybe it has more to do with being worn out, bored, and needing a good laugh.

    : D

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    Dorian  over 15 years ago

    I saw a fellow on the subway yesterday whose head shape and amount of hair made me think for one split second that Dill had grown up and moved to NYC.

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    I read Maggie and Jiggs monday through Friday on my Daily Ink

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    bald  over 15 years ago

    grazer:

    yup i am one of those 60 + people with some newer replacement parts coming in the near future myself.

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    uh-ohkid  over 15 years ago

    RT of course is a HUGE fan of the classics. So subtle homage to Maggie and Jiggswould not surprise me…

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    gocomics  almost 13 years ago

    This is almost panel-for-panel equivalent to an early Charlie Brown strip, where Charlie Brown gets the best of a girl (I think it was Patty [not Peppermint Patty], but not sure)

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