Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 24, 2021

People might hate me for saying this, but I’m glad they let the clown out. I think it’s a good thing.

what overactive imaginations these kids have

Use common sense, you have to put it down

Who let the clowns out?

Truly the stuff of nightmares.

That might be IT.

It’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s Superclown!

You’re right Nara, ‘IT’ is still up there!

Take off and nuke it from orbit.

Alright; looks like we got ourselves a Cul De Sac version of ALIEN!

“Ever wonder what is under drop ceilings? Tots to enter the Blisshaven Zone!”

At least it wasn’t a ‘mime-in-the-box’! Now that would be frightening!

Check the sewers and drains…

Every. Monday. Morning. Staff meeting and someone just had to loose the Clowns. And then it was chaos and screaming and yelling and women and children first…..

What great adventures these kids have at pre-school. All they did at our kid’s was fight, eat, and take naps.

Rough day at preschool

It floats…

This water tastes funny.

I thought that clown looked more like a witch. Clowns usually don’t wear dresses.

If Miss Bliss leaves the Clown up there she can always say, “Well if you don’t behave the Clown might come down here.”

Aliens and clowns – always mucking about in the HVAC ducts….

I was going fo say something political but caught myself just in time.

Who let the clown out? Who, who, who, who?

I thought it was “send in the clowns”, not “send up the clown”… ☺

A pox! A pox!

The Jack-in-the-Box

It flew but did not land.

Waiting to pounce

How soon shall it trounce

All in Blisshaven Land?

The clown that went up but didn’t come down. Something like this happened in my high school Chemistry class.

On lab day, each team of lab partners was observing the “decay” of mercuric oxide into mercury and oxygen. We heated tiny bits of the stuff in test tubes held over Bunsen burners. The mercury that formed was visible, of course. But to test for the oxygen, we had to put the glowing end of a splint in the mouth of a test tube. The abundance of oxygen would cause the faint glow to flare up into a momentary burst of flame.

All this was done with minute amounts of the material, the stuff being highly toxic.

One kid decided he wanted to go big with the test. He heated a larger bit of the material in a flask instead of a test tube. Of course, much more oxygen was generated that way. When he stuck the glowing splint in the flask… a long burst of flame erupted. The kid was so freaked out, he yelped and threw the flask up over his head.

It did not come down!

We couldn’t imagine where it had gone. The mood in the room was pretty weird, considering the fact that it seemed to have vanished into thin air.

A bit of closer observation revealed that the flask had landed on top of a suspended fluorescent light fixture. And remained perched there till we brought in a ladder to fetch it down.

I love the way Dill is tugging on Miss Bliss’ skirt to get her attention! That’s exactly what little kids do.

With all the celebrities coming out the clowns just had to be next…

If it gets in the plumbing, it’ll BREED. And we’ll have giant mutant clowns coming up through the stool!!

No need to panic, kids! It’s just a clown, you know, not some scary, evil monster from a Stephen King novel or something, right?

Alarmism is contagious.