Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 30, 2013

No no no, you stupid croc — it’s fork in left hand, knife in right hand. What are you, some kind of animal?

Huh. Complete sentence in the middle panel.

There’s no I in lunch.

Where are the croc-eating dolphins when you need them?

Yes, but it’s complicated little dance. Fork in left hand for cutting, then put down knife, transfer fork to right hand, a d then eat.

Where was the cutlery hidden?

Dukedoug: That’s Americans of my generation. Nowadays, most food is either in bite-sized chunks to be picked up with the fingers (french fries, e.g.), or is designed to pick up and bite pieces off (hamburgers), so I’m not sure the kids know what to do with a knife and fork at all.

The only thing that Larry’s missing, outside of the other half of hs brain, is a napkin.

Larry got “teem sperit,” dumb zeeba. You just not ON Larry’s teem.

Time to chase zeeba around island.

1)@markmoss1—It’s very impolite to eat French fries with the fingers…the fingers must be eaten separately!! 2)Zebra & Larry will be rescued soon. They neglected to file their tax returns, & the IRS is looking for them!!

trough is for eating, ask Pig

You can’t spell “TEAM” without “MEAT”.

This can only lead to one of these two having to be undeaded!!

@jeff_elbel: well, they are on a desert _island_…

Even on a visible, or partially visible, sand bar (there’s no way I’m going to call that pathetic bit of sand an island anymore) that small Larry will still screw up trying to eat Zebra.

It’s also how you eat if you’re left-handed, as I am.

It’s time to pan in for a closeup and que the Wilhelm Scream.

Zebra will escape that is a given, and our friend Larry has more lives then a cat!

Most Europeans keep knife in rt hand -fork in left and don’t switch. much more efficient

See? See! Zeeba is dictating the rules of Croc’s Island that Zeeba is illegally occupying and NOW! He is denying Croc the basic Right to Food!Will Zeeba’s perfidy never end?

fork you Larry

Catch yourself some fish, Bob, you are a reptile.

How’s Zebra gonna get out of this one? :)

Just pick it up and bite it off with your fingers.

Your dyslexia. Get it checked.

He has a lot of pockets in his skin. Unless it is a croc-skin coat!

I could SWEAR that the fork goes on the left and knife and spoon on the right.

don’t you dare…Mr. Pastis!!!!!!!!!!

Where is Mr. Snuffles when u need him?

Now imagine that Zebra is a juicy T-bone steak served with french fries and a beer.