Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 03, 2013
Transcript:
Alice: Look! There's a bird in the grocery store! Petey: They get in here by accident. There's a whole flock of them. Petey: Every spring they migrate from fresh produce to frozen foods, and in the fall they go back to fresh produce again. Alice: Oh! Petey: And there's an angry herd of stray feral cows that stampedes down the dairy aisle every day. Alice: Can we go watch them?
margueritem over 11 years ago
Happy belated birthday, templo SUD!
margueritem over 11 years ago
Ohboy, feral cows!
barbara chaffin Premium Member over 11 years ago
hee hee they are so cute!
Linux0s over 11 years ago
Who knew the “clean-up in aisle 3” was stray feral cows.
edclectic over 11 years ago
So, they’re mad cows?
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Petey has a surprisingly vivid imagination for an agoraphobic fan of Little Neuro. And Alice just stokes the fire.I knew the minute I saw that bird that it was a creature of ill omen—sort of Petey’s Raven.
puddlesplatt over 11 years ago
I was licked by a cow once, I guess it wanted to know if I was was good eating…I will never know, it died shortly after that lick…Hmmm
KatetheGreatComics over 11 years ago
What a great big brother Petey is! You have to wonder if this is something he’s been thinking about for a while, or if he’s doing some serious Discovery Channel improv for the entertainment of his kid sister. (I love that the character is layered enough that he often makes me wonder such things.) MAN, I miss this strip.
scrabblefiend over 11 years ago
In the spring,you can be in the big box store, and have a lovely concert of bird song. It brings nature to you.
Creniere over 11 years ago
I must be getting old….the music at the grocery store is beginning to sound very cool….
Gokie5 over 11 years ago
I’ve never seen a bird on the floor of a grocery – more like panicky fluttering against the ceiling. Maybe crows wouldn’t panicky-flutter.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 11 years ago
The one grocery store here, has a few birds flying about once in a while.
vldazzle over 11 years ago
Any store with high ceilings and large loading doors will have birds around unless they make huge efforts to deter that. The local Home Depot has many.
They are no problem unless in a food store they actually set up residence and decide to feed there and never leave.
When Cuddles cockatoo used to shop with me, I did not trim her wings until she started flying into store rafters, the last 20+ years she was with me they were kept trimmed because she did not need to fly (she preferred walking) and she liked the interaction of many people in stores and shows (art fairs and jewelry shows).
scyphi26 over 11 years ago
Heh, I don’t remember this one.
brick10 over 11 years ago
Reminds me of the pigeon making its living off the crumbs and such in a terminal at the NewarkNJ airport