Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 11, 2010

An excellent career!

Dad’s visual image in panel 2: priceless! Mom, on the other hand, is both flexible and practical.

Ah, the classics.

I can relate to his error… I had to search pangolin just to know what it was!

^Me too. And it does sound kind of Italian and Renaissance-y.

Dad seems to agree with me. Alice would be a great clown.

Spammers are early today. Flagged as usual. Also, I sent a complaint e-mail to U-Comics home page. If many of us do that, maybe they’ll do something about these weasels.

Dad’s vision is indeed a wonderful costume idea.

From “pangolin” to “Arlecchino” (French: ”Harlequin”)? That’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s the closest I can come. I’d be more likely to call up “palanquin”, but I can’t picture Alice dressed up as a sedan chair…

I remember taking a vocational aptitude test. I was best suited to be a clown or an entertainer. I could totally be an Italian Renaissance clown.

PS: Are the ‘rents eating cookies? With wine? Curious minds want to know.

what’s wrong with cookies with wine? wine goes with any and everything

you’re right - it should be cookies and beer

love commedia dell’arte

If you keep flagging every day it DOES work. On 10/12 the spammers were all gone by 0700 MDT as a result of you guys flagging. You are flagging the new identity each day. I DO agree that we all should send complaining e-mails as arvelru suggests.

I think dad’s thinking of Pantaloon.

I think he’s thinking of Pagliacci.