Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for November 16, 2012

You are so right, Nara.

I see where Petey gets it from…

Once my father dug up the garden for planting and put in a small yew tree at one end of the plot. At night, I snuck it out and moved it a foot. For weeks he stared and stared at it, but never figured out what I did.

And she believed this until the 6th grade.

Peter’s cap is quite manly; in panel 1 he looks like a regular guy, even to the point that he teases Alice (I think; trees don’t really ambulate, do they?).

Leave the tree alone.

Reminds me of Calvin’s dad’s answers to some of his questions. I just love Alice’s reactions and comments to those situations. What a wonderful comic strip Cul de Sac is!

The first time my kids saw a black-and-white movie, they asked where the colour was. I told them that before they invented colour television, everything in the world was black and white, and that we had to go out and paint everything so that it would look right on the colour TVs. Believed me for years . . .Ah, the lies our parents tell us.

A tree is not inanimate.

Haven’t you heard about those hit and run trees, they just jump right out at you. And of course those nasty snapping branches. Whew! could be dangerous somedays.

At least Calvin’s dad was trying to avoid a difficult explanation. Mr. Otterloop has no such excuse.

They’re not trees — they’re triffids!

I remember once watching a really old movie on tv in which after a comet went by people who watched it were blind and these plants started moving around and attacking them. I think the movie was called “Day Of The Triffids”.

they can still drop a pinecone on your head with amazing accuracy

“Inanimate” is not politically correct. One has to say “mechanically challenged” in order to secure public approval.

Gokie5 and Runar, that is the best movie trilogies I have EVER SEEN!

grinnies from me-Very cool. E(A)nts, methinks?.Cheeries to you.

@Runar, and you moved it a foot because??

I replaced a tree removed by electric utility and replaced it with one that I prefer anyway a few feet over (further from their lines) original was a willow that made a mess and new one is Italian Cypress (no mess and keeps to it’s place), so mine is a reason; yours??