Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 25, 2010

Poor Kevin….

Lawdy Miss Clawdy………….Kevin just signed his own death certificate.

Well, you did, for one, Alice. Yesterday.

Is there an adult lecture forthcoming here?! Hmmmmm……

I can’t understand why my local paper discontinued this comic! Love every one!

Kevin will have to work hard to get out of this!

Aspiring cartoonists take note: This week we have seen some of the finest examples of rendering chain link fencing in the history of newspaper comics.

Live it. Learn it. Follow the MASTER.

This is awesome.

All’s well and good until someone boo-boos your mom!

I love this strip. But didn’t anyone tell Kevin that timing is everything?

There is a Kevin in every group. He’s the one that actually say “Hi!” to the bear when it shows up.

Oh Great! Kevin is going to suffer the wrath alright. The wrath of Alice.

I knew it was her Mom!

Tomorrow that grass they’re standing on will be a lot more greener. That’s because the boys just finished whizzing themselves!

“Try switching the “D” letters with the “B” ones in the name-calleing and you’ll understand that the kids are using todler toilet humor here.”

I think if they had meant “Doo Doo Bum Bum Head” they would have said “Doo Doo Bum Bum Head”, and Richard Thompson wouldn’t have had any qualms about writing that and the syndicate wouldn’t have had any qualms about letting it run. I imagine that using spoonerisms to create euphemisms of euphemisms is a little above 4 year-old capabilities.

ewww….fritzoid is a Naughty Naughty Potty Potty Head!

One of the reasons toilet humor is so popular is it’s something that everybody can relate to. After all, “Everyone Poops.”

Nonetheless, there’s no reason to read scatological references into “Boo Boo Dum Dum Head.” “Boo Boo” is a common childhood term for error. “Dum Dum” is a common childhood term indicating stupidity. Neither of these needs to be read as a suggestion of bodily functions, unless one goes out of one’s way to look for things from which to take offense.

Of course, some people DO go out of their way, looking to be offended, and I consider that to be erroneous and stupid. Such a person would be a Boo Boo Dum Dum Head.

LOL, where else can you see adults discussing, in sincerity, the words Boo Boo Dum Dum Head and Doo Doo Bum Bum Head? There is a reason we come to gocomics and this is one of them.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think they were all “Stinky booger-brained boys”, a la Danae.

Edit: to fix bad formatting.

Another quality of Boo Boo Dum Dum Heads is that they find strips where they don’t like the art, don’t like the characters, and don’t like the jokes, and then read them and complain about them.

Toilet humor is the price we pay for abolishing ethnic jokes.

Hated by Boo Boo Dum Dum Heads, And Boo Boo Dum Dum Heads to hate, Be that my Motto, And my Fate.

– Jonathan Swift (who wasn’t afraid of a good potty joke, when the situation called for it)

These comments made me laugh more than the strip!

I love how Marcus is doing that “Who, me?” face.