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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Crumb by David Fletcher
Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein
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margueritem
said, 4 months ago
Just one, young lady.
simpsonfan2 said, 4 months ago
I heard it was bury it in the yard. That didn’t work, being in Los Angeles probably had something to do with it. But I only wanted snow when I was a kid. Now, NOT!
Linux0s said, 4 months ago
The whole tray would mean a blizzard.
win said, 4 months ago
The Ice Age comes to Cul de Sac.
Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago
What precipitated all these remarks about snow?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago
That’s probably just an urban legend, Alice. Peter is wise, however, to avoid a stopped-up toilet crisis!
olfart said, 4 months ago
When I was in junior high school some friends and I flushed dry ice down the toilet. (Purely in the spirit of scientific research, of course. Ahem!) The drains froze and broke and school was closed for three days.
Perkycat said, 4 months ago
@olfart
Shhhhh! Don’t let Alice hear about that.
Dry
said, 4 months ago
Better sterilize the ice cube tray when she’s done.
Dry
said, 4 months ago
@olfart
LOL! You were a bad kid weren’t you? :-)
Gokie5 said, 4 months ago
On the opposite end of the thermometer and of child-parent misconceptions, my father taught me that to insure that ice freezes faster, you fill the ice tray with hot water. That way, the water temperature will fall at a faster rate
, and the momentum will carry on even after the water approaches the freezing point. (Got that?) I faithfully followed my father’s dictum till I was married, when my mechanical-engineer husband instructed me otherwise.
ArthurAllen said, 4 months ago
@olfart
So THAT’S why dry ice sales are restricted to those 18 years of age or older.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Gokie5
It is amazing how such superstitions remain active isn’t it?
Gokie5 said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
:-) Yep!
rifframone said, 4 months ago
@Gokie5
Acording to various websites, depending on different conditions hot water can freeze faster than cold- it just depends on the variables. They call it the Mpemba Effect. I had heard of it before but hadn’t looked it up until now. Another lesson learned from Cul de Sac!