Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 19, 2012

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    margueritem  almost 13 years ago

    Alice, foiled again!

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    Ida No  almost 13 years ago

    It’s ok, the rest of your track record will shield you against this one-time slip.

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    rayannina  almost 13 years ago

    Petey’s great.

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    markbrowningmilner  almost 13 years ago

    i like that alice hates that she said something cute inadvertently.

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    cdward  almost 13 years ago

    Nooooo! Not cute!

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    GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Peter’s ecstatic.

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    Sisyphos  almost 13 years ago

    Oh, no! Not cute!Alice wants to be treated like the fully matured four-year-old she is, not like some “cute” infant. Petey, in his own way, is being supportive.

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    nancyroy2  almost 13 years ago

    cute! Alice is like my daughter Noelle – she HATES it when she says something cute and we laugh – then we say “It’s just that you’re so cute” and she screams “I’M NOT CUTE! STOP LAUGHING!”

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    Gokie5  almost 13 years ago

    When my younger daughter was around three, she turned around during a church service and looked up at the woman behind her. The woman smiled down at her indulgently, and my daughter NEVER forgot that. She felt so PATRONIZED!

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    ok. i admit it. sometimes i am slow. day two and i noticed, ELAStricity . and yes. that is cute.

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    coolwaterman  almost 13 years ago

    I must admit… after reading this strip, I no longer can pronounce elacktristy… no… elasssttt no… DRATS! ;

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    Chibi-robo64  almost 13 years ago

    Chibi-Robo: It had to happen sooner or later…

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    vldazzle  almost 13 years ago

    I just read over on my FaceBook that Richard will be taking a “few weeks off” for medical treatments. When I returned there I could not locate the comment to see who posted or what the treatment is for (I’ll look tomorrow, should have gone to bed by now)

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    vldazzle  almost 13 years ago

    Found it By Michael Cavna“CUL DE SAC” CREATOR RICHARD THOMPSON has just announced that his syndicated comic strip is going on hiatus for “three or four weeks” as he receives new treatment for his Parkinson’s disease.

    Thompson, who announced in 2009 that he has the disease, wrote on his blog Sunday that he is “taking some time off. Some MORE time off. … I’m about to start a program of physical therapy sessions designed for people with Parkinson’s.”

    Thompson playfully notes the recent number of “Cul de Sac” reruns (including Sunday’s) that have appeared, writing: “I’m guessing you … probably noticed that recently there’ve been a whole lot of ‘Cul de Sac’ repeats and you’re too nice to say anything (though you’re likely thinking, ‘Whoa, somebody sure takes a lot of vacations’). I mean, c’mon, what’s going on here?”

    Of the treatment, the Northern Virginia-based cartoonist writes: “I’ve only been in for an evaluation, but the therapy largely consists of big, exaggerated movements and sweeping silly walks that will so embarrass your body that it’ll start behaving itself, I hope. Also I’ll learn 10 ways to defeat a mugger by falling on him.”

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    killacowinWA  almost 13 years ago

    I really hated being told I was cute. All my life, I’ve desperately wanted people to take me seriously.

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    cutiepie29  almost 13 years ago

    I was frequently told that I was “cute” even up through High School and into college. It wasn’t that I wanted to be taken seriously and wasn’t, it was that “cute is for puppies, kittens and babies” and I was none of the above. It didn’t help that my younger sister’s nickname among several of the guys in the neighborhood was “Beautiful” (and not in a patronizing way either) while I was being called “cute”. I think I’m over it now, but . . .

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