Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 21, 2010

Ah, love it!

I love raisins in my cereal - whether they’re good for me or not.

Nuclear raisins! Hey, Doctor Toon, Loris may be horning in on your franchise….

Poor picky Petey! LOL

I don’t think Loris could slow down enough to present a reasonable facsimile of a neutrino.

Yeah - better she go as a photon.

I’d say a tachyon, though that might be too hypothetical.

She needs to be something that’s visible because it’s in motion. Hey, one of you scientist types, help out here!

On the other hand, a raisin could work.

love the way mr. thompson shows how kids think!

I don’t like raisins in my cereal either, they are usually to hard and chewy.

I agree, Batman and Riboflavin just doesn’t have the same ring to it…

“Fearmonger - The Menace Merchant” sounds waaaay too appropriate for this season.

what about’ “Neutrobombs cereal” for Loris? It’s the cereal with a surprise inside!

“You know what raisins really are? DEAD GRAPES!”

(After “You can’t tie down a Banjo Man!”, that may be my favorite “Cul de Sac” line ever…)

I’d like to see at least ONE kid in “CDS” that actually likes raisins, though. One minor peeve I had with “Peanuts” is that absolutely EVERYONE in the strip hated coconut. Even Snoopy, if he unwittingly ate something with coconut in it, would spit it out like he’d been poisoned. Me, I love coconut, and always have. But it was as though Schulz didn’t like coconut himself so he didn’t understand how ANYBODY could like it. Likewise, it seems that there ought to be at least ONE kid in “Cul de Sac” who LOVES raisins, even if it’s a trait that provokes mockery from the other kids. (Maybe Sofie likes raisins. Alice already thinks she’s weird.)

Of course, if parents try to trick kids into eating raisins by calling them “Nature’s candy” or something, that’ll never work. It’s like telling somebody that carob is as good as chocolate, or that tofu burgers taste “just like” real meat. No, they don’t.

An old “Mr. Boffo” strip: Boffo is dressed as a sculptor, and he’s at a gallery show next to a huge, oblong, irregular granite ovoid on a pedestal, and he says to the patron “I was going to call it ‘The Sum Total of Everything That’s Wrong With the Universe’, but then I found out not everyone feels the same way about potatoes as I do.”

A… neutrino? Isn’t she pretty energetic? I don’t think a particle that doesn’t interact with anything would fit her.

Wiki : A neutrino is an elementary particle that usually travels close to the speed of light, is electrically neutral, and is able to pass through ordinary matter . Neutrinos are similar to the more familiar electron, with one crucial difference: neutrinos do not carry electric charge. Because neutrinos are electrically neutral, they are not affected by the electromagnetic forces which act on electrons. Neutrinos are affected only by a “weak” sub-atomic force of much shorter range than electromagnetism, and are therefore able to pass through great distances in matter without being affected by it. If neutrinos have mass, they also interact gravitationally with other massive particles, but gravity is by far the weakest of the four known forces . Neutrinos are created as a result of certain types of radioactive decay or nuclear reactions such as those that take place in the Sun, in nuclear reactors, or when cosmic rays hit atoms. There are three types, or “flavours”, of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos. Each type also has a corresponding antiparticle, called an antineutrino. Electron neutrinos (or antineutrinos) are generated whenever protons change into neutrons, or vice versa—the two forms of beta decay. Interactions involving neutrinos are mediated by the weak interaction. Most neutrinos passing through the Earth emanate from the Sun, and more than 50 trillion solar neutrinos pass through an average-sized human body every second.

Her father would like her to be almost undetectable for a while. Daddies feel that way sometimes…. But how much candy is an almost undetectable particle going to get?

-Cougar :{)

I LOVE Petey’s “BLEH” face - Well done Richard!

Badgers LIKE carob.

And waffles and pancakes.

She should be an electron. Also I really like the fact that Petey has friends now. Sort of.