Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 09, 2011

Why is Val single? Divorced? Husband deceased? Who was he?

Her husband was killed serving the country. There was a great episode not too long ago where they all went to the cemetery, Phil went too and the last scene he promises to look after them.

WOW!!!

not too old of a strip today…..Phil just walks in,,,must be part of the family.

Typical teenager push-back. I remember the same kind of talk back from my teenage years. Proves that there is a biological reason for human love, otherwise there would be no human race left!

“The fact that the very young critters are cute is a survival factor. It keeps the mothers from killing their young.” Very loosely quoted from R.A.Heinlein’s Character Lazarus Long.

Why can’t the dog get all left over debre in furniture? Our daughter and her guy have two golden retrievers. Oldest female youngest male is always checking furniture for crumbs. Female can’t be a mom.

Yeah, don’t they have a dog? How does a Cheerio last long enough to get moldy?

True story – no one in my family LIKES Cheerios (aka, Nasty Tasteless Little Circles of Cardboard) – but we had a beagle who always begged for cereal. So my mom bought generic cheerios, figuring they didn’t contain anything that would hurt the dog, and none of the humans would eat them! So in our house, Cheerios were known as the dog’s cereal!

It takes a straight-man to make the hook work. Phil is good for that.

But Phil is MUCH more than a straight-man. And if he ever does take this family on his shoulders totally (which is the way I see this story-line building), his eternal salvation is assurred.

Flash

Good day, good strip. Reality. I know, I’ve been there as a single father.

Did Phil shave off the “stache”? I like the “stache”.

Holly, just you wait until you start having “special friends” over and the place looks like a dump! Your words will come back to bite you!

I thought Val’s husband died of some illness, at a young age?

As often happens, I find this comment has already been made.

@hausofmau, I thought that was a serious statement, not a quote from a fictional story. It’s obvious to me that’s why babies are cute!

At one time (maybe when I was a teenager?) I would have agreed with Holly: it was dishonest to try to look good. So instead of trying to look your best, you ought always to look your worst.

For some reason that no longer seems right to me…

And, you know, Phil, the fact that the conversation started about you makes it just a little creepier!

Enjoy!

Holly’s just finding an excuse to get out of helping…

Takes one to know one, Holly.