Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 24, 2010
June 23, 2010
June 25, 2010
Transcript:
Alice: This is the best place ever. Shady, cool and remote, and it's all mine! Beni: Did my soccer ball roll under here? Can I look around? Dad: Alice, I need to put the hose on the faucet there. Can you scoot over? Petey: Mom says lunch is ready and wash your hands this time. Alice: The encroachment of civilization despoils another pristine wilderness and we are all the poorer.
leakysqueaky712 over 14 years ago
Love, love, love the last panel!!!!!
margueritem over 14 years ago
Alas!
John Reiher Premium Member over 14 years ago
When I was a kid, their was a copse of lilacs between our house and the house behind us. I was 8 at the time and I would sit among them and breath in the fragrance. I visited that copse recently and it’s still there, but my hidey hole must have shrunk… Yeah, that’s it.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
I love the third panel.
SCOTTtheBADGER over 14 years ago
Still, I bet there is room for a fish slapping bear!
cdward over 14 years ago
Last panel is classic - and a bit sad.
Plods with ...™ over 14 years ago
You take paradise and put up a parking lot…
lewisbower over 14 years ago
REIHER The same thing happens to my last years shorts every Spring.
arsmall over 14 years ago
ITA cdward… I had a place like this, it, too wasn’t as remote as I thought…
bossyheifer over 14 years ago
I had a large cedar tree that my cousin and I would crawl under and play “house” and stuff. Then it got cut back and it was never the same…
Yukoneric over 14 years ago
Hose spigot under a bush??????
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
All my old hiding places are long gone. I’ve been reduced to wearing thick sunglasses.
celeconecca over 14 years ago
There was a huge forsythia bush in our neighbor’s yard that all the kids used just like this. It’s not there anymore.
Ushindi over 14 years ago
One of my favorite fishing spots was a creek in the mountains, flowing down through the pines and miles from anywhere - just a great place, nothing but open forest and logging roads. Went there with my dad when I was young and fished it for years as an adult. Unfortunately (and we would never have believed it would happen), for some years now, there are expensive houses along the upper banks - vacation homes. My dad never saw that, thank God - he was already gone. At least I still have the memories…
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Crikey! Alice isn’t in the Bush, it’s in the Outback! ‘Struth, you’re miles and miles from any wilderness, pristine or otherwise, once you’re back o’ Bourke. It’s the Dead Heart, Mate.
lin4869 over 14 years ago
I think it’s, “They paved paradise and put in a parking lot.”
vldazzle over 14 years ago
@Eric, I planted a shrub to hide my hose bibb (with vacuum breaker and y fitting (ugly) but now I get ant bites often when I go there and the switch for the underwater pool light is now covered as well. I’d rather have it civilized (although as a Libra, I appreciate Alice’s point of view as well).