The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for December 29, 2022

Nice to see Humpty doesn’t have to take the great fall…

Your honor, that refers to his mother.

Hey Judge, how about putting him under house arrest? I’m short of eggs right now.

The yolks on you your honor.

What a blow for the officer who cracked the case. Justice might be scrambled by the judge in this rotten decision — it wouldn’t pass the smell test even in Denmark.

So, it WAS a shell game!

His lawyer really scrambled to find this defense.

The prosecution was wanting to fry him.

Now Mr. Dumpty, while we process the paperwork, could you just sit on that wall over there?

His lawyer simply laid out the facts, though I think this eggcellent plan was probably poached from another case.

Lucky, he was looking at a dozen years.

“Omelet you go with only a fine. This case is over. Easy does it on the way out everybody.”

Shouldn’t there still be 11 jurors left?

Humpty Dumpty won them over easy.

Humpty’s a good egg and the Judge wasn’t going to let him be the fall guy for some hardboiled con man.

This really lifted the yoke on Mr. D…

I could think of a dozen reasons to keep this scrambled egg from running…..

And the prosecution thought he was gonna fry.

The Prosecution will discover s huge crack in this case.

Eggs now cost almost $5/dozen by us these days. That’s 42 cents each. Just sayin’…

And his mom ate only the best snakes and snails and fur from puppy dog tails.

The court system is a real shell game.

No one’s asked what he was being tried for. It was public intoxication. Everyone saw that he was smashed.

“Do you have any idea what they do to eggs in San Ricardo’s prison?! I’ll tell you this, my friend: It ain’t over easy!”

I heard about a penguin that was released without bail because he wasn’t a flight risk

That’s brilliant – what eggs are in cages before being sold, I ask you…

Gotta break a few eggs to make the case.

No one came to Mr. Dumpty trial, not even the jury!