Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 01, 2019

Mom’s been into the cooking sherry again.

the good ol’ parody of J.P. Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever”… well done, Mrs, Otterloop

“… our next guest the renowned arm-chewing Oboist, let’s hear it for Petey Otterloop!”

Well, Alice had to get it from somewhere.

I LOVE her mother! :D

As Norm Crosby would say: “She looks humidified”…

Mom set the bar fairly high,Alice ;)

lmao.. ah I wish Mr. Thompson was still with us, still at it, making these wonderful strips.

“The monkey wrapped his tail around the flagpole, skinned his….”

Dance like nobody’s watching. But, wait until I start recording, please.

Darn it. Now I have an ear worm. (Be kind to your fiends in the swamp, where the weather is very cold and damp…)

I was able to sing along with that. I must be pretty old. Oh how I miss Mr. Thompson.

Correction: It’s, the duck may be somebody’s grandma.

I love Alice’s mortified face in panel 3.

Petey and Alice have awesome parents.

Madeline is a kid at heart! And Alice has what they like to call “mixed emotions.” But the question to me is, would Daddy really play his harmonica in public, on the focal manhole cover?

You know the rest of the words, don’t you? …Be kind to your friends in the swamp/ Where it’s very very damp/ Now you may think this is the end/ Well it is. (“damp” pronounced to rhyme with “swamp”)

You remember the rest of the words, right? …Be kind to your friends in the swamp/ Where it’s very very damp/ Now you may think this is the end/ Well it is. (Pronounce “damp” to rhyme with “swamp.”)

I’ll never forget that song. An extremely introverted young woman in my college class of Critical Thinking did a presentation one day. She walked out dressed like a Girl Scout Leader and sang that song. It was so awkward you could’ve heard a pin drop…