Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 23, 2009

You are lucky indeed, Alice….

augh, it is good to see the classic toys in use.

Years ago in my home town, for the town birthday celebration they would cordon off a block on one street and let the teenagers play “soccer” with 2 firehoses and an empty beer keg.

I never thought I would see Dill with his hair down.

Didn’t think it was possible!

Maybe we get to see another “OONT” when the hair dries out and springs up…

Being an only child, I found it difficult to explain away some of the situations that I found myself in.

one of my sons bought a super soaker one year, when he squirted me, it actually stung, that baby had some pressure behind it. it came with 2 gallon back pack

Don’t laugh, those brothers will someday get rich designing water parks.

Is Dill’s family name Goldberg?

Dill’s brothers’ scheme is far too straightforward for Rube; everything actually involves fluid delivery.

A Goldberg water pistol would involve a bowling ball, a melting popsicle, an insomniac rooster, burning toast, a tail-wagging poodle, an alarm clock, a geiger counter, and a wedge of stinky cheese (which would be unlrelated to the mousetrap).

Oh what fun squirt guns were! I understand the kids are using real guns nowadays.

Dill - tell me about the two bendy straws - what in the world do THEY do? Where do THEY go? What’s the possible purpose of two bendy straws? Why are they so important? Please tell me, Dill, please!

By “bendy straws” does he mean the kind with the single pleated “hinge”, or the ones which can loop around and around and around like a French Horn? (I need to know so I can steal the design and patent it.)