Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 18, 2008
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Transcript:
Mom: I'd like a scoop of ChocoMochaLoco in a sugar cone, please. Alice: I want a blue flavor. Petey: I'll have the beige flavor in a cup. Mom: Here you go, Alice. Petey: Be careful eating that thing. Alice: I am. Petey: You have to rotate it constantly. Alice: Okay. Petey: Hot, humid air makes it highly unstable. Alice: OKAY. Petey: The whole mass could shift suddenly. Alice: OKAY! Petey: And you don't want that to happen. Alice: UGHK - Petey: Ancient Picts depicted themselves blue to show fierceness in battle. Alice: Petey made me nervous about my ice cream. Mom: Alice, we'll have to hose you off in the driveway like last time.
The Picts were a ancient tribe in what is now Britain. They would use dye from a plant called wode to paint themselves blue.