Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 11, 2024

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    momofalex7  2 months ago

    Pop-up books are not the right kind of books for the library to carry. They won’t last long.

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    mccollunsky  2 months ago

    Now how do you put it back in?

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    sbenton7684  2 months ago

    OMG… I laughed just as much today as I did the first time I saw this strip!!!

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    seismic-2 Premium Member 2 months ago

    Popular literary joke (really!) from the 19th century:

    Q: “Do you like Kipling?”

    A: “I don’t know. I’ve never kippled.”

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    Izzy Moreno  2 months ago

    Tolkien wasn’t a good writer.

    Now that I’ve got your attention, let me clear it up by saying that his stories were so good, it didn’t matter. He was good enough to convey what he meant, and hold your attention.

    What remained with you, was not his writing, but the story itself.

    Which is why, if you have a great story, you should write it, regardless of your writing prowess.

    On the other hand, just because you’re a great writer, if you don’t have a story, you should not write, regardless of your writing prowess.

    Lots of people writing, nowadays, thousands of books coming out every day. No skills, no story.

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    MikeM_inMD  2 months ago

    Derivative? Pah! Ernesto doesn’t know what he’s talking about – there’s not a single dragon ridden in all of Tolkien’s works.

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    win.45mag  2 months ago

    DragonSlapper. LMBO.

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    prince valiant Premium Member 2 months ago

    One of my favorites. Ernesto was Cul de Sac’s most interesting character.

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    Ed The Red Premium Member 2 months ago

    The best in that series is Dirk Dragonslapper Volume 17: Goblins, Shmoblins.

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    Impkins  Premium Member 2 months ago

    Sounds like something from Adam Shadowchild. :)

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    Gen.Flashman  2 months ago

    In Idaho and Oklahoma many libraries are IDing patrons and refusing entry to those < 18 thanks to state laws prohibiting minors having access to “offensive” materials.

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    Zebrastripes  2 months ago

    Ha! Doesn’t it figure?

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    Spiffy  2 months ago

    Come on, Petey. You’re supposed to go check out Tolkien!

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    joannesshadow  2 months ago

    The next tropical storm in the Atlantic is going to be called Ernesto. I wonder where they got the notion?

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    6turtle9  2 months ago

    Is Ernesto wearing flip-flops? Seems very out of character, but honestly it is hard to tell for sure.

    Poor Petey. First the douchery of Ernesto, and then the horrors of Pop-Up books.

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    Strawberry King  2 months ago

    Holy smokes!

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