Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 02, 2023

More or less how religions start

Alice. Crusader against myths.

You fought well, little beast!

Alice is pretty “quick on her feet” if she can stomp a butterfly.

It’s the Otterloop effect!

Self defense of a theory that’s bull, but I don’t criticize people who kill butterflies. I only killed one because I could see that it wasn’t doing well physically when I found it so

She probably saved the world … maybe.

Oh, Alice! :o

I certainly accept talking butterflies, but I doubt that many of them quote Yeats.

Aaaacckk!

Omg she squished it. ☹️

The butterfly is but an alternate version of Alice. By attacking the butterfly, Alice attacks herself.

Anybody catch the W.B. Yeats reference?

oof

Oh, by the way: the phrase goes that a butterfly IN THE AMAZON flaps it’s wings. She was safe and didn’t know it.

Whenever I see a photo of a little girl with a butterfly on her nose, I am reminded of the time I was hiking and came upon a meadow that was littered with thousands of fresh cow pies, and each pie had dozens of butterflies chowing down on them…

This must be what happened to Elon’s rocket and launch pad.

The disaster was cancelled out by another butterfly effect.

Unusually violent strip for Cul de Sac…

A bear cannot but [emit flatulence] at the North Pole without causing a Big Wind in Chicago.

I am reminded of Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder”.

Sheesh, I never knew butterflys were so rude. Give a guy a compliment and he turns around and scares the bejeezus out of you. You did the right thing, Alice. Nobody likes a fear mongerer, besides, this neighborhood no doubt has seen it’s share of frog showers, courtesy of Dill’s brothers.

I think that in this case, how a religion was avoided!

You know it’s Karma (even if you don’t know the word), Alice!

A long, long time ago, when I was a young adult, I was sitting in the sun on a bench outside of our place of work and casually stepped on some ants when a female co-worker came out and, seeing what I was doing, reprimanded me; as I held her in regard, I took her words seriously, and since then have tried to avoid killing even an insect unless it was a threat to me first….

Dry up.