Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 16, 2010

Alice has it down pat!!!

She knows her stuff!

Oh yes. Nothing more boring in a child’s life than reality. Really, who DOES want to play like that?

And I’ll bet that Bubsey Clownpants is the worst offender.

Got to add some spice to the car trips Alice!

Sounds like my mother was way back when.

Oh, we did sing-along. Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy, Do your ears hang low, I’m a little pile of tin, There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea. Later it was state license plates – which oddly enough, my kids still like to play even when we’re not traveling.

Thanks, cdward, now I have that song permanently lodged in my head! “There’s a hooooole in the bottom of the sea…”

Slug Bug!

Alice always gives me such a grin!

It’s not flag day, but what the heck.

My mom used to think we were trying to kill her by driving her crazy as she was driving us to Grandma’s!

A periodic “Knock it off!” was the worst my Dad would come out with, but it worked. We didn’t play the radio on car trips ‘cause neither of my parents cared for Pop Music (or Classical, or Jazz, or Country…), but my Dad would sing stuff from the 1940’s a capella. (My Mom’s favorite music was Marching Band stuff, and that doesn’t get a lot of airplay…)

Mostly, we kids had our own world in the back seat, and Mom and Dad had theirs in the front, and I have no idea what they did up there because I wasn’t paying attention.

Thompson was billiant today, but he is brilliant every day.

Man, I sure miss lazing around the back seat of our Hudson listening to the radio and watching the beautiful countryside go by while waiting for the next Burma Shave signs to appear….

Do Not Pass

On Curve Or Hill

If The Cops Don’t Catch You

The Morticians Will.

Burma Shave

The uh-oh baby makes an appearance on today’s Bizarro.

Love it! Who wants to play like that indeed!

grazer, love the Burma shave quote. Those were the good old days. And of course, Alice is always her imaginative self! Her parents are great so she make believes scolding.

“One more peep and I’m coming up there!”

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“PEEP!”

Oh, and whenever we drove past or over a lake or river, we all shouted “Water, water, water, water, water” until we were past. Oddly enough, my parents encouraged it.

And how many of us held our breath as we drove by a cemetary?

How many of us still hold our breath when we pass through a tunnel?

@marg & @Misgn: Guilty as charged – and I’ve passed it along to my children, too!

This strip would be waaaaay better without the colors.