Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 08, 2015

You wanna look like a prune, Alice?And, Petey, way to go of mentally scarring your sister.

Mission accomplished Petey

I laughed at Alice’s view of the germs playing in the sponge!They are cute and look kinda like Petey.

No, I think they’re little Dills.

Dill is a germ! Or a germ is Dill! Millions and millions of him/them/“little dirty things”! Alice, is that really what you think of your future husband?

Dill did play a cold germ in their kindergarten play, after all.

One Dill is plenty. Microwave that sponge!

when they start to smell, either burn them, or bury them.

I don’t remember this one!

Why do they all look like Dill? Poor little guy!

Baths are full of germs, too. Take a really long shower.

This strip allows me to comment on something that I’ve often wondered about: Why do most people use sponges in the kitchen when they could wash dishes with those donut-shaped scrubbers made from plastic filaments? Those scrubbers dry out quickly, don’t stink (unless you use them to wash something really gross, and haven’t (as far as I’ve seen) been implicated as causing death and destruction. Of course, it’s hard to find them. I have to go to ACE Hardware or somewhere esoteric that happens to carry them.

The little Dills would hate them.

That one “Dill germ” that splatted onto his face is so cute!