The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 30, 2023

Cue up John Anderson’s I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal(but I’m going to be a diamond someday).

check the carbon datingon his ID

Besides, you don’t want beer. You want coal porter.

It requires 60,000 Atmospheres of pressure to turn coal into a diamond.

It’s a “coal, cruel world”!

There’s a diamond in that rough somewhere.

He´s obviously a miner.

Same old story, it has a familiar ring.

A miner/minor mistake…

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

His little hat should be on backwards.

Or move to San Francisco. All you need to do there is walk in pickup a sixpack and walk out.

This kid sure has taken his lumps.

You must be 50 million years old to buy beer.

Yah, I’ve taken my lumps.

Okay, so you don’t serve coal minors, but do you serve coal minors’ daughters?

Seven – Eleven? Oh craps. P.S. takes a lot of heat too, sans oxygen, or like we humans, it brings on another mass mass extinction.

That’s expensive beer.

This is a job for Superman! (True fans know what I’m talking about.)