Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 08, 2019

to be honest, I thought Ernesto’s elf (Peter’s rabbit) was a rat

Are Ernesto’s other friends like Petey? If so, Petey missed out on a chance to meet others like himself.

Petey is much smarter than he looks.

It forms a neurotoxin if there is no rum or bourbon added.

I’m afraid that Ernesto’s Future Adults of America later became the Federalist Society.

It’s the fruitcake. Really, combining it with anything produces a neurotoxin.

In defense of fruitcake. What is found at the grocery store is not worthy of the name fruit cake. A bad fruitcake is terrible; a good one is wonderful. Homemade that is begun in October using an angel food tube pan,allowed to age until Christmas with a jigger of quality bourbon in the center and served with hard sauce really is good. ‘Hard’ sauce is called hard because it is not a liquid nor does it contain whiskey.

Petey did the right thing; why take the risk? Besides, Ernesto, being imaginary, can’t be offended anyway!

Petey describes Ernesto well when he calls him “that kid who’s even weirder than me.”

Also, those scientists trying to create Cold Fusion were on the wrong track. Simply pile up stale fruitcakes until they reach critical mass. Every year the stores sell fruitcake by the ton, but in sixty years of life, I have never, ever seen one single person actually EAT fruitcake…

I’m with Petey on this one.

The combination of eggnog and fruitcake is what creates elves in the first place.

If Peter’s last panel comment is true; I’m a dead man!

I would think that fruitcake (even good fruitcake—and there is such a thing) all by itself would automatically trigger all of Petey’s phobias at once, never mind eggnog.

And then there was the society for the preservation of wooden toilet seats. The Birch John Society…

New world order!

A huge WIN for Petey, my hero, over Ernesto, imaginary or not! And Petey doubles down with the neurotoxin danger of eggnog combined with fruitcake! I knew it!