Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 18, 2016

uh… thank goodness Santa didn’t get electrocuted from Alice’s static-electrified hat

Now you know what to ask for Christmas.

What Alice needs is a degausser.

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Degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field. It is named after the gauss, a unit of magnetism, which in turn was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. Due to magnetic hysteresis, it is generally not possible to reduce a magnetic field completely to zero, so degaussing typically induces a very small “known” field referred to as bias. Degaussing was originally applied to reduce ships’ magnetic signatures during World War II. Degaussing is also used to reduce magnetic fields in cathode ray tube monitors and to destroy data held on magnetic storage. Wikipedia

Grandma doesn’t have room left for any more tattoos.

Very funny.

Boy, the hair/smile combo is something they will talk about for many years to come.

Actually, Alice has a point. Why couldn’t she wear the hat?

I hope that Petey was able to look reserved enough. The half of his face we see is smiling.

WAIT! Didn’t grandma get run over by a raindeer last year?

Alice, you look like Ellie when she takes her helmet off! (Early in the movie “Up”.)

Grandma would prefer a bottle of Jack Daniels instead of a tattoo.

All this entertainment for only $49.95!

Petey, my hero, is inert during the action sequence. That’s my kind of action….