Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for September 21, 2014
Transcript:
Alice: As breakfast is the most important meal, I put a lot of thought into choosing my cereal. Alice: When scamming the cereal aisle, I'm careful to avoid earth tones, subdued fonts, or any hint of restraint in packing design. Alice: These are warning signs of a boring cereal. I look for radioactive colors, eye watering fonts and obsessive animal mascots. Alice: An obsessive animal mascot-rabbit, bumblebee, bear, monkey, squid, etc- is a key indicator of a good cereal. Alice: Even better is an obsessive imaginary creature, say a fanatical leprechaun or a rabid unicorn. Dad: Hey, Alice, did you know hot dogs are merely a vehicle for the condiments? Alice: Daddy! I'm still discussing cereal!
Sisyphos about 10 years ago
Alice is too smart for the purveyors of “good for you” breakfast stuff! And Daddy is just soooo out of sync!
erik.vanthienen about 10 years ago
And then there’s Fairtrade muesli with dark chocolate chips … ;-)
GROG Premium Member about 10 years ago
Time to move along, Alice. I can take only so much cereal talk. Ten seconds is about all I can take.
RickMK about 10 years ago
Corporations run the government – just look at Common Core.
pumaman about 10 years ago
Mustard and sauerkraut on mine please. Now as for the hotdog…
racerxyz about 10 years ago
Maybe you’re right, gleeb. Maybe there’s a link between what corporations are made of and what hot dogs are made of (see selected scenes from the movie “The Great Outdoors” to know Uncle Roman’s wisdom about what hot dogs are made of……..)
erin.adamic Premium Member about 10 years ago
I think I just got diabetes by reading this comic.
Piksea Premium Member about 10 years ago
If only Alice had her own show. I’d totally watch it!
puddlesplatt about 10 years ago
I ate overcooked Oatmeal mush for years…teeth gave out from under use.
HappyPhil about 10 years ago
I really enjoy Alice…actually I don’t think there is a character in Cul De Sac that doesn’t entertain me. As for the cereal, I grew up in the 1950’s and my Mom wouldn’t buy any sugared cereal for us kids. We had milk and a sugar bowl on the table. Ha ha
Gokie5 about 10 years ago
As I’ve intimated before, our little Alice would say, “Daddy! You’re dastractrating me!” (How she actually spelled it online.)
reynard61 about 10 years ago
oh how I pine for the good ol’ days of sawdust in my bread and rat-scat in my sausage and lead in my paint and mercury in my tuna and smog in my air and 100 hour workweeks with no weekends or holidays off and dying of starvation and homelessness in my old age once i was worn out and the company was done with me. yeah, let’s go back to that golden age… [/snark]
rgcviper about 10 years ago
Did you hear about the guy they found dead with his head in his cornflakes?
…….
The police thought it was a cereal killer.
(Ducking now …)
jnnydnti about 10 years ago
Rabid unicorn!!