Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 03, 2011

Good try Alice. Miss Bliss should have gone with it.

Nice trash wad, Alice! Your ‘tude really boils my duck-shaped ‘taters. Grrrrrrrrr.

Alice is right. The whole animorph-potato thing is just so played out.

I wanted to hear the rest of the story, Miss Bliss!

I got a bunch of them ‘Crown Jewells of Candyland’ in my pocket.

^Sadly, my kids leave the wadded up all over the house, which leaves me chasing after them to pick it all up.

If they were worth a penny, they might all appear in the rebate bag. In Yosemite, a nickel a can or bottle has helped lots.

Funny, I can’t remember anything anyone else ever brought to Show-And-Tell. Must not have made much of an impression on me! I’m not sure what the educational component of it is supposed to be… (I do remember I took a dead bat once, which must have thrilled my teacher!)

^ overcome fear of public speaking

@marg definitely!

@lonewolf me too

I find tons of those jewels every week when I do the laundry, I know why Miss Bliss is less than excited.

If that’s all you have to offer, Alice, I’ll go with the potato.

Morning Grog, Doctor Toon and all. I don’t remember anything I ever took either. Maybe it’s been too many years.

Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, stealing material from an old Dick Van Dike episode? Odd, but true!

(Actually, I know how to spell the Mary Poppins star’s name, but the obscenity censor changed it to a bleep since the last part of Dick’s name is a synonym for a Hilary Clinton supporter.)

Actually this has potential for teachers..have a child choose an inane object (teacher could have bagsful) and create a narrative. Alice is to be commended for being so resource-full.

When I was Alice’s age, my older sister (then about Petey’s age) told me that everything was made of molecules (she didn’t go into atoms). The next day in class, Miss Sims asked each of us to share something we’d seen on the way to school that morning (it had been a homework assignment). Having forgotten to notice anything myself, when my turn came around I said I’d seen a lot of molecules. Miss Sims was VERY pleased, being completely unaware that I was vamping over my blown homework.

What I learned from the experience is that you can ALWAYS manifest something out of nothing when necessary, if you know how to sell it…

PS: Yesterday it was Munodi, today it’s prfesser. What is it about some people that makes them think that anything that happened more than 20 years ago is not worth considering? It’s the flipside of old coots who insist that anything less than 20 years old is worthless…

I absolutely love Beni’s enthusiasm in the last panel!