Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 30, 2023

But Petey was a part of that crowd Alice!

Exactly! However, Alice is right … Petey is an example of Pre-Alician society.

Previous generations ALWAYS let down the ones who come after.

It was not the Pre-Alicians who made that mess. It was you, Alice and Dill, yesterday.

Whapped them into primary school, I guess.

I’m sure a comet sounds like “whap” :)

Alice, your brother was one of them, if that’s any clue.

Civilization progresses by standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before…until now, anyway.

Look carefully in the snack closet – you might find traces of cookies with gluten and even peanuts.

The weird thing about reading comics in rerun that you read already is that you feel like a time traveler. You ask questions like “Is this before or after she learned her brother was one of the before people?”

Antedilluvian

“No Comet.”

This has new meaning in the face of Out Great Extinction #5.

Ask Mr. Danders. He’s there in the corner and he’d be so happy if you asked. (Yes I know guinea pigs have short lives but he strikes me as a history buff)

“Today’s” strip is obviously about science/paleontology. Mark Twain wrote a short story of novelette about this same thing in general, the theories and posturing of science. “Some Learned Fables, For Good Old Boys And Girls”. Worth a glance, or more

The pre-Alician era was rather barbaric. There was no recess. Rest mats were like sandpaper. Crayons snapped at the first hint of artistic impulse. The arts & crafts storage area was a vast wasteland, with dried out paste and scissors too blunt to cut even wafer-thin construction paper. There was no globe, as the governor had declared that the earth was flat. When Alice arrived, it was a new day…

I don’t know about a comet whapping heads, Dill, but I can think of at least a couple of somebodies who have been dropped on their heads.

For all the knowing of these two, archeology is certainly not their strong suit.

Dill’s open-mindedness leaves him susceptible to drinking in all of Alice’s bizarre fantasies. Poor lad—and they’re not even married yet!

Messy school