Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 09, 2022

It can also be used for tea.

So, is an end table something that you sit on?

I dunno. Like snacks. Ham. Bacon. Or something…

And only for him.

we know what his foot stool is shaped like…

just be careful as to not bump the table with a coffee thereon

The remote control.

Rat would like that-it would discourage company from staying!

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”?

A coffee table book?

Steph, please don’t tell me you have run out of ideas. Time to bring back the crocs! n zeba’s!

Second only to Kramer’s coffee table book which can also serve as a coffee table.

It’s more of a Cup of Coffee table. Lose the cup for it to be a real coffee table.

Great gag.

Not beer and chips, certainly.

Pig could also have “high” tea on it.

More irrefutable logic from Pig.

They’re great places to display large, expensive books you’ve never read , like “Masterworks of Dutch Genre Painting”….

a book about coffee tables

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.

All those coffee table books that no one looks at, maybe?

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/

Tons of books, mainly for the grandchildren.

Pig doesn’t get idioms or catchy names, does he?

Pig has a silly tendency to take everything literal, which makes us all feel superior.

Nice plant stand!

Just don’t bump it or it’ll be no coffee coffee table.

Best comic ever!

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxsasUHzaQ

Biscuits (sorry, Cookies..)

I want one

You mean a coffee table isn’t a table made of coffee?

Well, he’s not wrong..

A coffee table book about coffee tables?

He’s got a point… maybe I should get a “my possessions table”.

In the evening does it turn into a decaf coffee table?

But but what if you have company….where would you put their coffee?

Seems to be more of a toppletable.

Would need to be larger for tea to accommodate a requisite scone.

Smoking stands used to be very popular. My father had one.

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

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.

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.

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.

With that table,at least nobody will be yelling “Coasters”

Coffee table display created by gravity.

possibly a guest’s coffee also? …not to mention books to big and flashy to put anyplace else.

I wonder if he used a shipping pallet…

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.

It should be called a coaster table. It’s actually the coaster that goes on the table.

Never stopped to think about it. Now I’m gonna have to look it up.

It looks like something you’d find at a yard sale, where the person selling it doesn’t know what it is either.

Needs a wider base to make it less vulnerable to spills.

why have i never seen this joke before? Well done, sir!

Give us Crocs, please!!!!

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.

Guy I knew got a new sports car. I looked in the glove compartment and asked, “But where do you put the other glove?”

Pig being literal is sure a deep well.

Yet again, evidence of literal-minded Pig! Bless his naive little heart!

genius.

Didn’t really need frame 3.

If you count up the tables you use for tea, does that make you a teetotaler?