Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 22, 2021

you do need to go out more, Peter Otterloop, Jr.

Sign looks like it’s got some bullet holes.

Guys, you know you’re supposed to stop & read EVERY hysterical marker!

I love this surreal world. :D

Their dads would commission a marker for the marker for the marker.

We called them hysterical markers!

Mine, too.

That sign marks the spot where “color” was first introduced to the Cul de Sac community.

Replace it with a marker which reads: “In Memory of One of the Greatest Cartoonists”

“Post No Historical Markers”

We’d be on a road trip and my dad would, out of the blue, start over-the-top laughing like he was insane. Then as we’d pass by the marker, he’d point and, deadpan, say, “Hysterical Point.”

someone should clean it up to see what it says!

So Cul de Sac doesn’t have a town historian? Or a librarian?

Looks like it got a black top washing.

On family road trips (long ago, when I was the kid in the car) we’d sometimes stop for an intriguing-looking Historical Marker. Typically, one got a bit of local lore that only a resident of that place could (possibly) love. Sometimes, the vandals won, though, especially in the case of “shoot me!” upright signs like Cul de Sac’s desecrated original….

Mine too