Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 31, 2016
December 30, 2016
January 01, 2017
Transcript:
Mom: Alice! What are you doing? Alice: Petey said I could play with it outside. Mom: It's an ornamental ceramic family heirloom moose! It isn't something you push around in the dirt! Alice: She did the same thing when I took that big vase out to my sandbox. Beni: Adults can be so grabby.
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
sure
WaitingMan almost 8 years ago
“It’s an ornamental ceramic family heirloom moose!” Didn’t that first appear in Plato’s “Republic”?
Retired Dude almost 8 years ago
Alice probably thought it was OK to take the vase out to the sand box since it already had a lot of dust in it.
Perkycat almost 8 years ago
And here Beni had his hammer all ready to have some fun with the ornamental, ceramic, family heirloom moose
Smiley Rmom almost 8 years ago
I’m a fan of family heirlooms that are actually useful. After my parents died (they both grew up during the Great Depression) and cleaning out decades of stuff they’d kept, I’m not nearly as fond of family heirlooms as I used to be. Nice to have a few mementos, but too many just become “dust collectors”. Just because an ancestor owned it, doesn’t make it something you have to keep.
stamps almost 8 years ago
Don’t worry Alice, you’re going to inherit it. Then you can do what you like with it.
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
Hey, Beni, is that hammer a ceramic family heirloom, or did you have some hyperactivity in mind regarding the moose that Alice had sort of purloined from Petey while he was distracted and not really hearing the question to which he agreed?