As usual, Pig is correct. https://homeworldhawaii.com/2015/07/17/the-short-history-of-coffee-tables/#:~:text=The%20idea%20of%20a%20coffee,18%E2%80%B3%2D19%E2%80%B3%20high.&text=It%20is%20speculated%20that%20the,became%20more%20popular%20than%20tea.
This looks like a cocktail party. I hate cocktail parties. Plastic cutlery in my pocket. A tiny plate of crackers and stiff cheese and some stuff you’re not sure is meat on it.
“It could be meat. It could be cake. I know! It’s meatcake!” G. Carlin
Goat, I think it’s high time you taught Pig about the concept of different phrases, idioms, and figures of speech. That way, this sort of confusion could be avoided.
I wonder if Stephan is getting “leaned on” by the newspaper publishers for his political themes. Seems like he has toned them down to downright off, lately.
BE THIS GUY over 2 years ago
It can also be used for tea.
BasilBruce over 2 years ago
So, is an end table something that you sit on?
Gent over 2 years ago
I dunno. Like snacks. Ham. Bacon. Or something…
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 2 years ago
And only for him.
ronaldspence over 2 years ago
we know what his foot stool is shaped like…
Templo S.U.D. over 2 years ago
just be careful as to not bump the table with a coffee thereon
sirbadger over 2 years ago
The remote control.
iggyman over 2 years ago
Rat would like that-it would discourage company from staying!
i_am_the_jam over 2 years ago
I remember in “Family Feud” a question was “What do you put on a coffee table?” No one answered “coffee”. So why are they called “coffee tables”?
Cornelius Noodleman over 2 years ago
A coffee table book?
jimchronister2016 over 2 years ago
Steph, please don’t tell me you have run out of ideas. Time to bring back the crocs! n zeba’s!
catmom1360 over 2 years ago
Second only to Kramer’s coffee table book which can also serve as a coffee table.
Imagine over 2 years ago
It’s more of a Cup of Coffee table. Lose the cup for it to be a real coffee table.
John Smith over 2 years ago
Great gag.
rshive over 2 years ago
Not beer and chips, certainly.
Troglodyte over 2 years ago
Pig could also have “high” tea on it.
blunebottle over 2 years ago
More irrefutable logic from Pig.
Call me Ishmael over 2 years ago
They’re great places to display large, expensive books you’ve never read , like “Masterworks of Dutch Genre Painting”….
Chief Inspector over 2 years ago
a book about coffee tables
NavalHistorian over 2 years ago
As usual, Pig is correct. https://homeworldhawaii.com/2015/07/17/the-short-history-of-coffee-tables/#:~:text=The%20idea%20of%20a%20coffee,18%E2%80%B3%2D19%E2%80%B3%20high.&text=It%20is%20speculated%20that%20the,became%20more%20popular%20than%20tea.
wrd2255 over 2 years ago
All those coffee table books that no one looks at, maybe?
dziner88 over 2 years ago
Actually, Pastis, what you have shown is more of a “tea table” than a coffee table…yes, there is a difference!
https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/coffee-table-design-history/
tripwire45 over 2 years ago
Tons of books, mainly for the grandchildren.
Ellis97 over 2 years ago
Pig doesn’t get idioms or catchy names, does he?
monya_43 over 2 years ago
Pig has a silly tendency to take everything literal, which makes us all feel superior.
pheets over 2 years ago
Nice plant stand!
David in Webb Premium Member over 2 years ago
Just don’t bump it or it’ll be no coffee coffee table.
betsytheclown Premium Member over 2 years ago
Best comic ever!
Jhony-Yermo over 2 years ago
You must be on a roll. Almost as many likes as Calvin and Hobbes. Do you think anyone might be reading your comics 20 years from now? Good luck.
ksu71 over 2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxsasUHzaQ
EuroHomer over 2 years ago
Biscuits (sorry, Cookies..)
diskus Premium Member over 2 years ago
I want one
uniquename over 2 years ago
You mean a coffee table isn’t a table made of coffee?
JohnTheFoole over 2 years ago
Well, he’s not wrong..
Bucinka over 2 years ago
A coffee table book about coffee tables?
Goat from PBS over 2 years ago
He’s got a point… maybe I should get a “my possessions table”.
petermerck over 2 years ago
In the evening does it turn into a decaf coffee table?
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
But but what if you have company….where would you put their coffee?
unfair.de over 2 years ago
Seems to be more of a toppletable.
jscarey over 2 years ago
Would need to be larger for tea to accommodate a requisite scone.
Fontessa over 2 years ago
Smoking stands used to be very popular. My father had one.
FassEddie over 2 years ago
This looks like a cocktail party. I hate cocktail parties. Plastic cutlery in my pocket. A tiny plate of crackers and stiff cheese and some stuff you’re not sure is meat on it.
“It could be meat. It could be cake. I know! It’s meatcake!” G. Carlin
Mentor397 over 2 years ago
If you had a bigger table, you could put books and magazines out that you never read but just own to impress neighbors and friends.
CaveCat87 over 2 years ago
Goat, I think it’s high time you taught Pig about the concept of different phrases, idioms, and figures of speech. That way, this sort of confusion could be avoided.
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
COMICS KINGDOM didn’t post comments yesterday and today as of 10AM they haven’t even posted the strips!!
Get Rat on the case—-and tell him to bring his bat.
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
With that table,at least nobody will be yelling “Coasters”
OshkoshJohn over 2 years ago
Coffee table display created by gravity.
KEA over 2 years ago
possibly a guest’s coffee also? …not to mention books to big and flashy to put anyplace else.
russb53 over 2 years ago
I wonder if he used a shipping pallet…
zeexenon over 2 years ago
Looks kind of tippy to me … like a small SUV with 15’ of stuff piled on the roof. A Mechanical Engineering professor told us something about it.
Bilan over 2 years ago
It should be called a coaster table. It’s actually the coaster that goes on the table.
knight1192a over 2 years ago
Never stopped to think about it. Now I’m gonna have to look it up.
christelisbetty over 2 years ago
It looks like something you’d find at a yard sale, where the person selling it doesn’t know what it is either.
willie_mctell over 2 years ago
Needs a wider base to make it less vulnerable to spills.
cromwelljones53 over 2 years ago
why have i never seen this joke before? Well done, sir!
Galaxina over 2 years ago
Give us Crocs, please!!!!
Rabbitman over 2 years ago
I wonder if Stephan is getting “leaned on” by the newspaper publishers for his political themes. Seems like he has toned them down to downright off, lately.
PaintTheDust over 2 years ago
Guy I knew got a new sports car. I looked in the glove compartment and asked, “But where do you put the other glove?”
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 2 years ago
Pig being literal is sure a deep well.
Sisyphos over 2 years ago
Yet again, evidence of literal-minded Pig! Bless his naive little heart!
txmystic over 2 years ago
genius.
Tom in WV over 2 years ago
Didn’t really need frame 3.
sheldonj52 over 2 years ago
If you count up the tables you use for tea, does that make you a teetotaler?