Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 22, 2013

“I want mine with no sugar, no cream, and strong enough to dissolve my spoon.”

He didn’t say he was actually going to put a spoon in the coffee.

It would melt the straw for starters ;)

To know it is strong enough.

We don’t need to see the coffee the King orders. We can tell he is a fink without that…

Q. What’s the name of this coffee shop? A. It’s called Planetcents..like Starbucks, but smaller and cheaper!!

And if you think THAT was bad, see my comment on today’s Pearls Before Swine!!

The spoon replaces the sugar and tea for flavoring and lets you get some iron in your system.

I’ll just have what Juan Valdez is having.

Be a man. Pass on the sprinkles.

You need the spoon to eat the coffee. (If it’s thin enough to drink it’s not strong enough!)

Wait til the Huns hear about this.

A buddy of mine once ordered a real fru-fru soundingdrink and then proceeded to tell the waiter how to make it.The waiter grimaced and rolled his eyes..I started laughing and said..Give me a double Wild Turkey over ice."The waiters smile returned to his face and said..“Very good SIR..now THAT is a drink !.”

Nor would his bendy straw.

Look in the first panel in front of Rodney – it looks like there’s a chinese character or something with a line drawn to a circle around his leg/crotch. What is that?

Comments on the drink aside, notice that this appears to be an artist’s mark-up? Look at Rodney’s leg in the first frame. A circle with a leader to some unintelligible mark. Interesting, I think.

and in the second panel there are 2 mugs