Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 21, 2013

dad is right, but so is Beni.

I just learned tonight that this phenomenon is called “semantic satiation”. Here’s the wiki page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation.

@simpsonfan2, thanks for that! That was great! :)

I’m with Dill on “oatmeal.” —So, thanks, simpsonfan2, for a job well done!

@simpsonfan2Now that was a “feel good” moment! Thanks!

I love oatmeal—especially the steel cut kind. Mix in some craisins and top with fresh blueberries, and there’s not a better way to start the day (except bacon, of course, but unfortunately I can’t eat it very often).

Now try that with the word “work”.

I’m eating oatmeal as I read this strip! Or at least I think I am. What is this stuff, does it have a name? ALICE!

They’ll just find another name for it, Dill. You need to send thesubstance into oblivion too.

had a pet hamster named Grimby,but he died, Pogrimby…

I’ll add my thanks to Simpsonfan. How do you DO that??

For obligatory Grandma tale, when the grandson was put on the two-ended swing set after a hiatus because of illness, he went back and forth, saying “Remine, remore!. Remine, remore!” over and over in time to his swinging. I never heard this expression again, so he must have killed it.

Or ‘Broccoli’… please destroy Broccoli…

“Oatmeal” is still a real thing. So saying it a million times, to make it no longer a word won’t help.