Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 04, 2016

Better than eating standing up.

Maybe all the other diners can hold hands while they urinate on Rat.

At communal tables, you can swipe other people’s leftovers.

(or maybe not even wait until they leave)

The other people wouldn’t be likely to stay long. No one want s to eat at a restaurant that has rats eating the food. The food inspector would have something to say about it.

So this restaurant has communal tables and comurinal restrooms.

Am I the only one who remembers communal urinals?

It’s BYOF (Bring Your Own Pitchfork).

This would be like the cafeterias in all the schools I went to. Not pleasant.

How can guys use communal urinals? It’s so primitive!

“L’enfer, c’est les autres”

(Hell is other people)

Do you have public urinals in other countries?. I have an idea I heard they’re only Australian. IT’s a whole wall covered with a metal sheet and you pee into a sort of gutter along the wall.

it’s like hell with salad forks substituting for pitchforks.

I have never seen a communal table in a restaurant before. Is this a thing now?

“Hell is other people” J P Sartre

A good restaurant has food too good and prices too high to waste it eating “family style.” I’m with Whistler: “If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.”

Agree!

Just don’t run those politchforks in the dishwasher. http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2016/11/04

The last time I ate at a communal table was summer camp. Which restaurants have communal tables?

The Cleveland Indians didn’t blow the World Series … the Chicago Cubs were better than them!!! Go-Cubs-Go!!!

Actually, there are kinda communal tables in those Japanese restaurants where they cook the food right in front of you. I’ve been to such a place at least twice, and it wasn’t really bad.

And the flames.

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I would not want to be part of any Communal Table that would admit Rat as a member….

Not without pitchforks… just smaller ones.

I think Stephan missed an opportunity here. Maybe this strip could have been funnier.

It’s like hell with Salad Forks instead of Pitchforks.

Rat, I sympathize with you!

…or the long spoons.