Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 12, 2022

I hope the waiter isn’t expecting a tip.

Took twice.

What does the grape say?

Stomp me, crush me, make me whine…

I guess we won’t need to leave a tip. The waiter is tipsy already with all that wine.

I bet he knows a man with a wooden leg, named Smith!

Waitstaff have to have a sense of humor, otherwise there would be fewer living return customers.

Poor guy thought he said “give us your best whine.”

Is that whine Italian or French?

They should’ve gone with the red whine. American Indians have much more to complain about.

Pig likes to Whine …. Rat likes beer ;-)

There goes his tip! (Don’t think Rat is much of a tipper anyway!

Love the sarcasm. He’d get a good tip from me.

If you like that whine, just take a look at the brew the back of the house is cooking up.

Oh wait, they’re shooting it up after cooking it up.

“Don’t think of your food as cold. Let’s call it “heat-challenged”

They have a tendency to emote since they’re all wannabe actors :D I wonder how they feel when they get a gig performing as a waiter. I guess they use their life experience, don’t show up or, if they do, they go with the wrong script in hand :D

The restaurant has a rat infestation

mmMMMOOOOOoomm

He should work at Dick’s Last Resort, where the waitstaff are expected to abuse the customers.

I would never order “the best wine” – could be $1000/bottle.

No tip for you, whiner.

If that’s his best whine, I think Rat and Pig got cheated.

Customer: Waiter what is this fly doing in my soup? Waiter: The back stroke. Bada Boom!

The waiter must have a sense of humor. He wouldn’t have left a rat and a pig into the restaurant otherwise.

Well, that wine is a lot cheaper than the bottled kind.

Wine. Whine. Yeah.

Yikes! So much for a quiet evening……I hate pesky waiters….

Probably should have worded that differently, Rat.

Half the waiters and waitresses in America probably WOULD like to say this!

Well, that’s a very good whine if I ever heard one.

Honest question: Is “soooooooo” with 8 oS pronounced so or sue?

For PBS whine list, see comment section.

Gocomics has finally crossed the line by refusing to load comics if you have an adblocker. Farewell, friends, I’ll find my amusement elsewhere.

Restaurant Ass’n of Florida (of which Disney is a prominent member, along with Red Lobster and others) won their fight to NOT require paid sick days for wait staff – don’t you just Love knowing your wait staff has a choice of not being paid, no tips, or staying home to heal? I consider it fortunate this NRA did NOT win their effort to reduce base pay to $2.13 Heaven help us all.

Joke: my dad got the rabbit soup at a restaurant. The waiter said, “if you say that there’s a hare in my soup, I will get the manager to kick you out of this restaurant, then charge your credit card extra.”

My dad got a salad instead.

Punning should be criminalized.

I always said some day Pastis will go back to waiting tables….

I always gave tips on the service, which generally was good and even excellent ………… but one time the waitress really p*ssed me off. It would have been different if she was busy, but she walked right by us and took her break, finally one of the other waitresses that knew me asked if we had our order taken, I said no but could see that she that she was busy, she then said I’m not your waitress she is ! About then the owner came over and apologized for making us wait, took our order. The waitress that was suppose take our order brought out our food and she acted like it was such a job ……… so when we left, I put a penny tip under a flipped glass of water. (I did find out later, that waitress got fired, shortly afterwards) !

And jeez

anybody getting the issue where no images appear including the comic banner, comic strip, and adverts?

Bullwinkle as Little Tommy Tucker, the singing waiter, “Tomato Sauce and Ketchup we use to make it red. you put it on your salad, you’ll wish that you were dead!”

Rat missed a good comeback: " I used to wish that I could sing. Now I wish that he could."

Hahahaha! Best one in awhile!

I would say give him a good tip. But this Rat we’re talking about.

The old Waiter Wine Whine. Actually, he performed it rather well!

He knew that was the only kind that they could afford.

Plucky Duck did this on an episode of “Tiny Toon Adventures.”

A certain comic writer would love a waiter like that, instantly bond and give a massive tip.

The way Pastis does?

At least he’s being honest.

I’m not sniffing THAT cork.