Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 22, 2015

I hope the kids didn’t get to learn new words from Timmy and Jimmy after the brothers’ little mishap of unloading the piano.

Did they rent a stretcher?

Oh, Kevin, don’t be such a baby! You’re FOUR years old now, and a bucket-head at that. They couldn’t possibly run you over with a runaway piano (would that be “stride piano”?). But, on the other hand, the look of concern on Miss Bliss’s face in panel 4 does suggest that prudence dictates extreme caution. Timmy’s brother may be a bad-luck curse….

“Ne’er-do-well” … now there’s a great word you don’t hear too often any more. :-)

Timmy! You can tie down a piano, but you can’t tie down a banjo man!

i like it that one of the kids used “ne’er-do-well” as the brotherly adjective; bespeaks of both previous association and a hint of having learned the term from someone else.

Puts me in mind of the most famous piano-moving movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPeuzsCxMI

There’s likely more than this, but it gives the flavor . . . Maybe Part II is available on YouTube, also.

So, does a Fretwork need new bridgework?

Somewhere safer? More like somewhere quieter, so they don’t learn a whole lot of new Anglo-Saxonisms that may not be acceptable in polite society. Or at home.