Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 28, 2011
Transcript:
Andre: That soccer ball looks weird. Petey: It's all bloated and puffy. Andre: And swollen. What do they put in soccer balls? Petey: Mostly used air... used air 1) inside a shell of space-age polymer 2) surrounded by a layer of ten thousand densely packed rubber bands 3) ... Andre: Ten thousand rubber bands! Sounds like Loris Slothrop's head. Petey: Petey back quickly away.
margueritem over 13 years ago
The thought of Loris and those rubber bands is making Petey quake.
rayannina over 13 years ago
Petey … you’re narrating your life third-person again …
uhohkid over 13 years ago
Rubber bands? I thought that was a golf ball… Either way, I LOVE this strip! Keep at it RT !!
overeasy123 over 13 years ago
KICK IT, Petey! KICK IT!
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
Is he afraid it’s going to come bounciing back to him?
Elaine Rosco Premium Member over 13 years ago
Danger …Danger…back away slowly….
Herb Thiel Premium Member over 13 years ago
Slothrop is a cool last name.
WaitingMan over 13 years ago
Final score from Saturday night: USA - 1 Argentina - 1
78,936(!) fans at New Meadowlands Stadium.
Destiny23 over 13 years ago
Petey’s starting to sound like Regis – he always refers to himself in the third person too.
MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
I’ll bet there would have been less than half that many fans if Immigration had showed up.
chaosandcake over 13 years ago
For a second I thought I was not alone in narrating my life occasionally, before I realized it just meant that Calvin is not alone in narrating his sports events, she said, shaking her head ruefully.
COWBOY7 over 13 years ago
I’m with you on this one, Petey! lol
Bittermelon of Truth over 13 years ago
A ball of tightly-packed rubber bands is worse than a bomb, according to Petey!