Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 04, 2016
Transcript:
Rat: There's nowhere to sit in this restaurant. Goat: Well, there are no individual tables, but there are a couple of seats free at that big communal table. Rat: Oh, good...then after we're done, maybe we can all hold hands while we go to the urinal together. Goat: Not a fan of communal tables? Rat: It's like hell without the pitchforks.
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
Better than eating standing up.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
Maybe all the other diners can hold hands while they urinate on Rat.
Bilan about 8 years ago
At communal tables, you can swipe other people’s leftovers.
(or maybe not even wait until they leave)
Randallw about 8 years ago
The other people wouldn’t be likely to stay long. No one want s to eat at a restaurant that has rats eating the food. The food inspector would have something to say about it.
nosirrom about 8 years ago
So this restaurant has communal tables and comurinal restrooms.
alviebird about 8 years ago
Am I the only one who remembers communal urinals?
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 8 years ago
It’s BYOF (Bring Your Own Pitchfork).
TMO1 Premium Member about 8 years ago
This would be like the cafeterias in all the schools I went to. Not pleasant.
Andrew Capp about 8 years ago
How can guys use communal urinals? It’s so primitive!
ACK! Premium Member about 8 years ago
“L’enfer, c’est les autres”
(Hell is other people)
Randallw about 8 years ago
Do you have public urinals in other countries?. I have an idea I heard they’re only Australian. IT’s a whole wall covered with a metal sheet and you pee into a sort of gutter along the wall.
ekw555 about 8 years ago
it’s like hell with salad forks substituting for pitchforks.
underwms about 8 years ago
I have never seen a communal table in a restaurant before. Is this a thing now?
Ian Mason about 8 years ago
“Hell is other people” J P Sartre
MeGoNow Premium Member about 8 years ago
A good restaurant has food too good and prices too high to waste it eating “family style.” I’m with Whistler: “If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.”
Calvin about 8 years ago
Agree!
gordol about 8 years ago
Just don’t run those politchforks in the dishwasher. http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2016/11/04
KEA about 8 years ago
The last time I ate at a communal table was summer camp. Which restaurants have communal tables?
Zoja about 8 years ago
The Cleveland Indians didn’t blow the World Series … the Chicago Cubs were better than them!!! Go-Cubs-Go!!!
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
Actually, there are kinda communal tables in those Japanese restaurants where they cook the food right in front of you. I’ve been to such a place at least twice, and it wasn’t really bad.
Number Three about 8 years ago
And the flames.
xxx
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
I would not want to be part of any Communal Table that would admit Rat as a member….
Texas Joe about 8 years ago
Not without pitchforks… just smaller ones.
I think Stephan missed an opportunity here. Maybe this strip could have been funnier.
jannaverse about 8 years ago
It’s like hell with Salad Forks instead of Pitchforks.
willx4321 over 7 years ago
Rat, I sympathize with you!
jmanaker98 10 months ago
…or the long spoons.