Thinking yesterday’s comic must have been reality, how else could he have got identical comics out the same day (originally, that is — comparing Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine 4/18/2006 through 4/22/2006)
People yesterday kept saying the waitress acted like that because they were only getting coffee, so wouldn’t be leaving a very large tip. Well, we weren’t shown them eating, but they must have, “I don’t know when I’ve had a more unpleasant meal.”And going back, it looked like they waited through two days of comic strips for their menus.
Funny, but just before I read the strip today I just happened to wonder if Pastis was married and stumbled upon this blog entry, headlined "My Marriage is Headed Down the Gutter — http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/my-marriage-is-headed-down-the-gutter/
The cartoon appeared in Investor’s Business Daily on 10/11/13, the day after you say Obama signed the military death’s benefit bill. It’s a stretch to call the cartoon, “misinformation” if at the time it was created, it was true.
To ignore the historical commentary and respond to the few commenting on today’s comic — I think you missed the point. It looks like he’s fished a fly out of his wine and is now holding up the glass to the light to see if there are any more flies in it. Janis comes up, not being there to see the action with the fly, and thinks Arlo is examining the wine for color and clarity, and is therefore acting the wine snob.
("There are five basic steps in tasting wine: color, swirl, smell, taste, and savor. These are also known as the “five S” steps: see, swirl, sniff, sip, savor. During this process, a taster must look for clarity, varietal character, integration, expressiveness, complexity, and connectedness." — Wikipedia)
Thinking yesterday’s comic must have been reality, how else could he have got identical comics out the same day (originally, that is — comparing Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine 4/18/2006 through 4/22/2006)