Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 23, 2010
Transcript:
Alice: I'm so bored my head's going to pop clean off. Petey: I'm not bored. Alice: How can you not be bored? You've been staring at the same page for a week! Petey: I'm just now starting to grasp its nuances. Alice: Nuances? EW! Bleh! Petey: Your problem is you've got a nanosecond attention span. Alice: Nuance? UGH! ECH! PTOOEY! Petey: You don't know how to delve into the infinite possibilities of minutia. Alice: NUANCES - Hey! Will there be nuances if I try to ride Dill's kiddie car on the big rock wall? Petey: Plenty. Alice: Yay! My life has meaning again! Petey: Go get 'em, Tiger.
margueritem over 14 years ago
Thanks to Petey, Alice can face the world again!
leakysqueaky712 over 14 years ago
Alice is a trip and a half.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
That’s about the attention span of a 4 year old, Petey. Alice, you gotta take the time to smell the roses.
comicartfan over 14 years ago
Thats my attention span!
MisterFweem over 14 years ago
Just like my five-year-old. Not happy with any activity – death defiance MUST play a significant role.
randayn over 14 years ago
It got her out of his room!
cleokaya over 14 years ago
Petey begins his life as the great manipulator.
SCOTTtheBADGER over 14 years ago
Soon enters the big red truck, with the pretty blue Stars of Life on the sides, and the cool flashing lights?
pibfan868 over 14 years ago
She doesn’t even know what nuances are but they must be bleh!
justmeta Premium Member over 14 years ago
my new word for the day “nuances”
rogebr over 14 years ago
It takes a hyper-nuance to cure boredom.
vldazzle over 14 years ago
I’m going to take the other half of my 2-day shoe-making class today (9-11th Century turned leather shoes). I embroidered my first upper last night and definately won’t be bored today as I put it together.
I LOVE the way this brother aand sister interact (or fail to).
poohbear8192 over 14 years ago
Contemplate the slightly different scrapes you have on each knee. Experience the minute levels of pain you feel in from one second to the next. Notice how one tooth wobbles just slightly more than the other.
margueritem over 14 years ago
vldazzle, I’d love to see a picture of those shoes.
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
First of all, I don’t believe that boredom can cause one’s head to pop off. I’ve been dangerously bored many a time and it’s never once happened. I do recall my head bobbling around abit, but that was it.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Ahhh, to see the world in a grain of sand. Crank up “The Inner Light” (the B-side of the “Lady Madonna” single):
Without going out of my door I can know all things on earth Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have a little sister.”
exeyevee Premium Member over 14 years ago
At least this time he didn’t call her “brother-bothering baloney brains.”
majorhiccup about 14 years ago
I’ve sat and three years worth of Cul De Sac in three days. Best three days ever!
Alos, Mr. Thompson, is Petey’s character semi-autobiographical?
lightningsnowstorm over 12 years ago
Petey is trying to get Alice either in trouble or killed.