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Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 29, 2017
Transcript:
"Once upon a time in the utensil drawer." Fork: Honey...I think I'm having contractions. Fork 2: Okay...just breathe, baby...I'll get the car. "So the forks went to the hospital." Fork 2: I'll get the door for you sweetie. Knife: Goodbye. Good luck! "And after ten hours of labor..." Fork 2: Here comes the baby, honey! Dr: Congrats, Mr. and Mrs. Fork. Its a - Spork. "Mr. Spoon fled the utensil drawer as fast as he could." Goat: That's not how sporks are made. Rat: Yes it is. Pis: That does it. I'm putting my spoons in a separate drawer.
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
That’s what spooning will get you.
railwayman001 about 8 years ago
Well, it is what the current Idiot-in-Chief thinks, and he will make us all accept it as fact.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
I heard that the spoon ran off with a dish while the dog was laughing.
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
I would hate to see Rat’s rendition of the “Hey-Diddle-Diddle” line of the dish running away with the spoon.
Troglodyte about 8 years ago
What the fork?!
LuvThemPluggers about 8 years ago
These mixed marriages never work out! The kids get mixed messages.
noahproblem about 8 years ago
And here I thought the knife would’ve been the backstabber…
Oshietekun about 8 years ago
This strip is forking ridiculous.
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
Rat draws funnier cartoons than Cartoon-Boy’s pun-strips.
Lee Cox about 8 years ago
That’s really cute. Who knew that Rat can actually be funny when he wants to be?
cdgar about 8 years ago
Think of the thousands of children that read this strip. They are terribly confused and traumatized now.
Ida No about 8 years ago
Design theory as taught at Fork U.
hariseldon59 about 8 years ago
Funniest Pearls strip I’ve read in some time now.
Plumbob Wilson about 8 years ago
“Who was that ladle I saw you with last night?”“That was no ladle, that was my knife.”
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 8 years ago
Most useless utensil ever “conceived”.
Lucid Premium Member about 8 years ago
Just love the 6th panel.
mortaur about 8 years ago
I love the look on Mr. Forks’s face.
aimlesscruzr about 8 years ago
I just noticed that rat puts the pencil under his ear instead of above it like the rest of us.
Ichabod Ferguson about 8 years ago
Never trust a runcible spoon.
Reader about 8 years ago
I’ve seen this happen tine and tine again.
Nuliajuk about 8 years ago
I thought the spoon ran away with the dish? Or was that his brother, the soup spoon.Also, is it a spork or a foon?
garcoa about 8 years ago
I was so confused, how can a fork drive a car? ;<))
salakfarm Premium Member about 8 years ago
Yeah, well, spork you, buddy!
nosirrom about 8 years ago
And the Dish was heartBROKEN after learning what that two-timing Spoon did.
mjb515 about 8 years ago
Mr. Fork calls in Mack the Knife to deal with his spoon problem.
jdsven about 8 years ago
Well, they don’t call them “spoons” for nothing.
Perkycat about 8 years ago
Is this why I can never find a spoon in the drawer when I want one?
Biltil Premium Member about 8 years ago
Poor Spork was out of place so he left this world for a career in Star Fleet
A_NY_Outlaw about 8 years ago
well he looks sorta like a fork head.
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member about 8 years ago
Apparently the way you can tell a male fork from a female is that the male has an extra prong.
Number Three about 8 years ago
Hahahahaha! This is mad. I love it!
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kaffekup about 8 years ago
Or as Key & Peele called it once, a “fpoon”.Google “the continental breakfast”. It’s hilarious.
CarlHeckman about 8 years ago
It’s not a lie, it’s an “alternative fact”
tegm about 8 years ago
Just once I’d like to see him draw a female doctor; no wonder in real life everyone mistakes us for nurses, we’re never represented in TV Shows, films, books, comic strips, etc…
SkyFisher about 8 years ago
OK, now explain a runcible spoon.
MarioFan85 almost 6 years ago
These people know nothing
rat’s insurance counselor over 5 years ago
one of my favorite comics
Fatjud over 3 years ago
What would happen if a spork married a butter knife?