Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 27, 2012

Put the little fellow down already!

I had a guinea pig when I was a kid. I held him to long and he peed on me. If I were you, I would put Dander down as he is a large capacity guinea pig.

Mr. Danders is being very polite with Alice. I think he likes her, except for the being-carried-around thing!

Can we call this guinea pig Petey the second? Petey II

Don’t you think wanting to be “put down” is a trifle ambiguous?

Talk about in one ear and out the other.

I hear the voice of Michael Caine.

@Richard S. Russellthat sounds like something Mark Twain would say :)

akk. =^..^=

Mr. Danders sounds a lot like Petey.

@Richard S. RussellInteresting!

Poor Mr. Danders. Alice is the only one who can hear him and she isn’t listening. He is rather polite about it.

Check out 7/30/2010 for an adult that can definitely hear him.

Maybe he wouldn’t mind so much if she was carrying him so his feet were resting on something! You shouldn’t carry animals the way she’s doing.

The wonderful thing about them is you both do and don’t hear them! Aaaaah….Ha!

“Words with opposing meanings are also known as autantonyms, antagonyms, or even Janus words.”Thanks for the treatise, Richard. I had wondered about autantonyms on a biweekly basis. (That’s the only one I can think of -but don’t think meanings of “biweekly” are exactly opposite.)

Im betting that is where Petey walks un circles worrying about such crisises as a stinkbug in his way, or whether or not him eating a pickle will drop his picky eating rating or whatever he worries about

More Danders!

Thanks for the info!!!!

Very cool. Thank you.

For one thing, she’s holding him too tight. He told me so. (I can hear him too!)

What kind of irresponsible preschool teacher would risk all the things that could possibly happen to a guinea pig in the sole care of a four-year-old????

You hear him, Alice.

You are incorrect in the Peace Pledge example, it is clearly the first usage.“I will never Sanction” equals “I will never allow”

Sanction used as a verb is the first case, as in allow.

Sanction use as a noun can be either approving or disapproving.

That’s Ms. Bliss – nomen est omen.