Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 09, 2023

It’s time to make like an atom and split, Alice.

Also, you would need a periodic table on the table to tell you which atom is which, and you can note down what each atom tastes like.

The usual family disconnect.

Those silly scientists who wasted billions of dollars at CERN. They should have just brought in Petey and his hammer.

He can borrow Beni’s…

Petey, the right answer is no :)

In the meantime, the next World’s Pickiest Eater has heard about quarks …

I think you would break the plate before the greens.

From “The Big Bang Theory”

Wil Wheaton (as Professor Proton): It’s time for Professor Proton’s science joke of the day. Why can you not trust atoms?

Sheldon: Hmm…

Wil Wheaton: Because they make up everything!

Sheldon: Oh, that’s funny! Yeah, because they do. They make up everything.

When I was about Alice’s age, my older sister (about Petey’s age) told me about molecules. At kindergarten the next day we were each asked to name something we’d seen on the way to class, and I proudly answered “Molecules!”

Giving “Atom Smasher” a whole new meaning.

Wildly divergent POVs today! Petey wants atomic food and thinks a hammer would be an atom smasher. Madeline feels that her cooking is being dissed. And Alice is obsessed with her own bugginess.

Just another normal day in the Otterloop household of Cul de Sac, greater D.C. area….

Molecular gastronomist, our Petey.