Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson
- September 15, 2009
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Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac, is a comic strip about the life of a pre-school girl named Alice Otterloop. It is a light-hearted comic strip centered around a four-year old girl and her suburban life experiences on a cul-de-sac with her friends Beni and Dill, older brother Petey and her classmates at Blisshaven Academy pre-school. Alice describes her father's car as a "Honda-Tonka Cuisinart" and talks to the class guinea pig, Mr. Danders. She has the typical older brother who plays jokes on her, and she contemplates ways to keep the scary clown from jumping out of the jack-in-the-box with friends.
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Margueritem
said,
2 months ago
See, Dill knows…..
JHSayers said, 2 months ago
Boy, Petey has this kind of deraged focus about banjo men.
grazer said, 2 months ago
Petey’s absolutely right—How many happily married banjo men do you know??
kimberphi said, 2 months ago
I don’t know any… my momma warned me ‘bout those banjo men~~~
BC13
said,
2 months ago
I only know one former banjo man, and he’s not married.
DavidDow said, 2 months ago
Hearing the banjo practiced every day drives away all living things. Thus, the banjoist’s life is a lonely one.
SJ said, 2 months ago
Where’d Dill here about it? Probably from his brothers, ya think?
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
2 months ago
Alice! Just ask Dill next time!
cleokaya
said,
2 months ago
The banjo man got Dean Doozie in trouble today.
tgaml
said,
2 months ago
Don’t fear the banjo.
Jo Jo said, 2 months ago
I dunno. Steve Martin and his first wife made it eight years, so maybe they’ve got a chance.
DigitalFrog
said,
2 months ago
…maybe Timmy Fretwork is just the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?
dianecliff said, 2 months ago
Miss Piggy never got Kermit.
Vince LoGreco
said,
2 months ago
I love it, first hearty laugh of the day. The look and dialog of the third panel is what did that. It would make a great t-shirt.
bald 716 said, 2 months ago
really, just look at the banjo man in deliverance
NeedleDtheBugF said, 2 months ago
It IS tough to tie down banjo men. Especially their arms.
JanCinVV
said,
2 months ago
Last I heard Jerry Van bleeep is happily married.
JanCinVV
said,
2 months ago
That’s Jerry VanDyke or VanDike or however a simple proper name gets past the censors.
crunkbot said, 2 months ago
This strip is the funniest thing I’ve read today.
“Jerry Van bleeep” is a very close second.
BenPanced said, 2 months ago
Banjo men gotta be free. Like pennies, toothpicks, and breath mints at the cash register in a truck stop.
Turnbloom
said,
2 months ago
Hey RT, are you and Tom coordinating your strips?? ;-)
toasteroven said, 2 months ago
The only man lonelier than the Banjo Man is the Bagpipes Man.
fritzoid said, 2 months ago
He’s ramblin’, ramblin’ round, he’s a ramblin’ guy…
One of the eternal truths - “You can’t tie down a Banjo Man!” It doesn’t matter where Petey heard it, or where Dill heard it. It’s something all men know in their bones, and all women learn to their sorrow. You want someone who stays put? Marry a cellist…
cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago
But you can tie down an accordian-playing man. It has to be strong rope, you see.
DonVanni said, 2 months ago
“You Can’t Tie Down A Banjo Man.”
Sounds like we have a title for the third Cul de Sac collection.
Poor Miss Bliss. Looks like she’s headed for heartbreak.
Ushindi
said,
2 months ago
D-F…..A little “Galaxy Quest”, by any chance? I enjoyed ( the heck out of) that movie. If wrong, please ignore.
Edit: Forgot to mention - the strip is great, as usual. You know that “the sound of the outward bound, makes Timmy a slave, to his wandering ways… And the wayward wind, is the……”
Apologies to Gogi Grant.
Just plain Steve said, 2 months ago
Pete and Toshi Seeger seem to be making out okay (66 years?)
Trebbers said, 2 months ago
Man, Petey really goes somewhere else in that third panel.
comics4brown
said,
2 months ago
perhaps Miss Bliss might care for the tambourine man.. of course, that may not be all that much better.
OldHipster said, 2 months ago
Hey massa Tamborine Man, playa song fer meeeeeeeee.
I’m too high to be playing it my self, you seeeeeeee!
nancyalis said, 2 months ago
“Petey’s absolutely right—How many happily married banjo men do you know??”
Pete Seeger–He’s 90 and still married to Toshi. Steve Martin ? Not sure.
StuStu2U
said,
2 months ago
My husband is a Banjo Man. We’ve been married 23 years, so far.