Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 20, 2014

Dil’s brothers would find a way to turn it into a catapult.

I am proud of Alice being so proud of her big brother. I am, however, not so sanguine about his actual effectiveness.As for Dill; well, being the youngest brother in a family of adventurous trebuchet-builders has a very different dynamic. Maybe they would catapult the jack-in-the-box up into Maryland!

Actually, I think they understand perfectly.

Break the crank just in case.

All my big Brother would ask me to do, was to pull his finger…strange how that worked.

Only Petey, at ~ 10 years old, would use the word “baleful.”

Spot weld the lid shut.

They’re making you strong Dill

Dill’s brothers would find a way to make the jack-in-the-box fire the cinderblock into the next subdivision.

Dill’s brothers would launch the Jack-in-the-box into orbit with their trebuchet, where it would wreak havoc on communications satellites.