Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 23, 2009

See? I knew he wouldn’t forget Dad.

He didn’t get him the Texas Mickey in the window, though!

Now beat it, kid, before I change my mind! …Don’t you just love a spider named Fido? Arf?

Shouldn’t discount licker have four legs?

Uh, just what does the “licker” lick? And what would a full-price licker lick that the discount one doesn’t? HEY! KEEP IT CLEAN! NO DIRTY MINDS!

HaHa Licker.

Johnny Walker Blue Label..it takes at least that to handle those pets…

I guess his dad is not getting a tie. But his dad will tie one on.

I would imagine Lio’s dad consumes a lot of likker.

This one is just too weird.

OK, Dad’s on the list. All is right with the world again.

donboyer or considering its lower class enough to have misspelling maybe more like Old Crow or something?

You licker, I hardly know her

Night Train. Biiiiiig bottle of Night Train.

When you’re Lio’s dad, you probably want a chance to forget sometimes.

Looking at the names on Lio’s Christmas list I bet Dad’s going to be happy getting a present from Discount Licker.

So cheap, the store can’t even afford spell check. Ah, well. At least there will be a lot of it for Dad. :D

isnt Fido a dog’s name

Living with Lio, his dad needs a bigger bottle.

Lio knows the effect he has on Dad well, especially after last year’s plutonium incident.

I see what he was going for … but golly, “Discount Licker” sounds SO much worse than just writing out Liquor

Sisyphos, Fido is such a wonderful name for a spider, especially since it rhymes with the way that my 3 yr old granddaughter says “piedough” instead of spider.

I’d go for the absinthe, no the artificial american stuff though, the kind with real wormwood.

Thanks for the help, Carmine Sandiego.

draleice Fido is from the Latin, and it means ‘I am Faithful’. Therefore, it could fit any of Lio’s pets, except maybe Cybil.

I would get suspicious if I had a kid who gave me Liquor for Christmas.

Merrymarg, definitely not Cybil.

it will fit cybil she is faithful to lio (a little on the psyco side but faithful)

Maybe, Lio actually has no strange pets or habits. Dad just sees it that way because he shops at “Discount Licker.”

Something about a barking spider doesn’t smell right…

How many licks of liquor could a licker lick if a licker could lick liquor?

That’sa my boy! You gotta love a kid who gives his ole Dad such a well thought out and useful gift.

R_Noonan63 said

” Hold on is that Dick Tracy undercover :O”

Have you seen Mark Tatulli’s avatar?

Is that big bottle the same one that Mel Brooks drank from in “Silent Movie”?

Lio knows what Dad likes. :) hehehe

It was Vodka Mark? hehehehe. :)

Who would actually sell that to Lio… um never mind.

Hard to believe Tatulli could get away with this.