Monty by Jim Meddick for November 13, 2015

Some call it antipasto.

Apart from the spelling, this is a clever cartoon :)

Maybe the ‘antipasta’ was a slip of the penne

My aunty matters to my uncle,I’m sure. They’ve been married 38 years, and BTW, she make excellent pasta.

This is the more funny inasmuch as I just last night made a big pot of spaghetti for myself (=dinners for three days). Luckily, unlike Monty, I never mess with antipasto (antipasta). Heaven knows, I wouldn’t want to be responsible for rending the fabric of the universe. I’m not so good at sewing….

What’s antipasta?

Pasta and pasto don’t even share the same etymology: latin verb “pascere” (to feed on) for pasto and greek verb “passein” (knead) for pasta.

The Perils of Modern LivingWell up above the tropostrataThere is a region stark and stellarWhere, on a streak of anti-matterLived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller.Remote from Fusion’s origin,He lived unguessed and unawaresWith all his antikith and kin,And kept macassars on his chairs.One morning, idling by the sea,He spied a tin of monstrous girthThat bore three letters: A. E. C.Out stepped a visitor from Earth.Then, shouting gladly o’er the sands,Met two who in their alien waysWere like as lentils. Their right handsClasped, and the rest was gamma rays.— Harold P FurthOriginally published in the New Yorker in 1956(A.E.C. stands for the Atomic Energy Commission, which in those days was in charge of nuclear stuff in the US.)

I’ve been told (from Italian-speaking families) that the word is actually “antepasta”, meaning “before the pasta”, referring to its position in the serving order.

Hey, but what do they know. They only speak the language. It’s not like they’re professional food columnists or something….

The coloring is remarkably beautiful today.

Science, etymology, poetry, wit…I must say, everybody is really on their game here today! Well done, crew!

When I googled these terms I got that “antepasto” is Portuguese.

I thought anty pasta was what you get when you don’t watch your picnic food.

If you combine pasta and anti-pasta they will annihilate each other except for two green olives that fly apart at the speed of light. If the pasta and anti-pasta have enough mass the olives will have pimentos.

Isn’t this how Olive Garden came to exist? It would explain their ‘bottomless bowl of salad’ and cacophonic atmosphere.

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I’m sitting here eating pasta. Out of my concern for the safety of the universe, i did forego the antipasta.

The problem is that Monti is not a proper Pastafarian. If he had been wearing the proper headwear, this would not have happened. http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/30513399/woman-allowed-to-wear-colander-in-drivers-license-photo-after-appeal

That is a truly beautiful, well drawn and coloured explosion.