Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 10, 2019

Well, now we know the parents’ name… after another rerun.

Poor Alice.

“Urquhart”, huh? I’m gonna forget that by tomorrow.

Once again, 10 years ago, a blog entry referenced this strip 

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2009/03/urquhart.html

My mother told me a story that when I was a little kid, and had a friend or friends over to play one day, one of them did not know our last name, so he addressed her as “(Liverlips’s) mommy.”

Doesn’t every child experience a revelation like this at some point?

Petey should be happy he wasn’t given his mom’s maiden name for a first name like some families do. Imagine, Urquhart Potterpoop, – oops! I mean Urguhart Otterloop.

I wonder if her family ever had a castle.

Petey’s foot is wagging like a dog’s tail.

The book he’s reading. Am I reading the title correctly? “Little Neuro.”

Sounds like a version of “Little Nemo” in the Matrix universe.

Our granddaughter was teaching her daughter their names and addresses. Little One kept insisting that grandson-in-law’s name was not Steven; he is Daddy Smith. She kept giving her mum one of those “what’s the matter with you” looks.

Haha, this is a terrific one. Alice’s horror is such a kid thing.

This is one of Richard’s classics. Laugh in every panel.

Wait until Alice realizes that Grandma has a first name too!

Making you Alice Urquhart Otterloop. (Or Potterpoop, whichever.)

We miss you Richard! But you are with us every day as we read the comic pages and smile. Thanks for sharing your wonderful gift.

Well, after going from Urquhart to Otterloop, I think she’d like “Mommy” better…

Similar to Lady in Lady and the Tramp: ‘Darling’ is ‘Lady and the Tramp’s’ owner, and wife of ‘Jim Dear’, in Disney’s 1955 animated feature Lady and the Tramp. In pre-production, Jim Dear was known as Jim Brown, and Darling was named Elizabeth. These were dropped to highlight Lady’s point of view. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Darling

Poor Alice! Wait until she learns about middle names!

And she is lucky she isn’t growing up from four today, because Mommy would probably be calling herself Madeline Urquhart-Otterloop….

I love the way a lot of young kids just don’t understand that their parents were ordinary people at one time.