[Ads-l] corral

[John Baker]

The comic in question was Cul de Sac, created by the late Richard Thompson, and the “cart herds” were the unseen older brothers of Dill, a friend of the central character Alice Otterloop. Since Alice and Dill were about four years old, I am inclined to take their linguistic evidence with a grain of salt. 


John Baker


> On Apr 8, 2026, at 8:30 PM, Geoffrey Nathan <00001a558db4a26e-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> Alas, I can't find it easily, but there was a comic
> in the, I think, early two thousand, that played
> for a week or so with one of the characters
> being a 'cart herd'.
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> Geoff
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> Dan Goncharoff  wrote:
>> How long have the employees that bring carts back to the corral been
>> called wranglers?
> 
> Here is an instance of a "cart wrangler" in 1966.
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> Date: March 17, 1966
> Newspaper: Orlando Sentinel
> Newspaper Location: Orlando, Florida
> Article: Cart Wrangler
> Author: Associated Press
> Quote Page 13E, Rightmost Column
> Database: Newspapers.com
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> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Farticle%2Fthe-orlando-sentinel-cartwrangler%2F195099200%2F&data=05%7C02%7Can6993%40WAYNE.EDU%7Cb6b1a15dbb344c83cc4508de9515fc89%7Ce51cdec9811d471dbbe6dd3d8d54c28b%7C1%7C0%7C639112118852626902%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0XDL4YTdFicr7jU8oO9qrFqg%2FqGNq4ubmxPgVI3w9xk%3D&reserved=0<https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-cartwrangler/195099200/>
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> [Begin excerpt]
> CART WRANGLER
> 
> TORONTO (AP) William Bilow's home is near a supermarket and Bilow got
> "madder and madder" when people kept leaving shopping carts on his
> lawn. He began returning them to the store for a fee of 25 cents each.
> Business was so good he quit his job and formed his own company. It
> now rounds up some 3,000 carts throughout the area weekly.
> [End excerpt]
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> Garson
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