Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey for January 05, 2024

This is when the DC cast cooks you.

Yes – you’re a royal PITA!!

This is when I make sure the guillotine is in good working order.

To paraphrase Voltaire: Il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un roi pour décourager les autres. (It is good to kill a king from time to time to discourage the others.)

Merci, M’sieur Arouet.

Are you edible with drawn butter?

“Bad back.” “Doesn’t matter, now bow down, peasant!”

I have the perfect throne, but its over here in the boiling water.

‘Squidos. The seafood that goes crunch.’

Nobility aint what it usta be.

You’re either royalty or a soon-to-be special of the day on a local menu.

quick thinking

I was a teacher. When students asked what a PITA is, my definition was pain in the armpit, but they would figure it out eventually.

You don’t watch out, you’re going to be a dungeon-S crab.

Besides that, Hawthorne, you are going to have to do way better than that to impress Sherman.

King crab: best steamed with and served with drawn butter with a bit of Old Bay mixed in. :)