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2006-11-22: Tablespoon (Feds)
Delicious
Phyllo pastry, eh?
It's good stuff.
This comic is in the storyline:
- Variations
A long-running series, maybe the crux of the site. Reader submits a suggestion, and I draw three comics based on that suggestion. Originally all three had to start the same, but it evolved.
Text transcript
Rabid: So what do you call this fabulous new invention? Dr Quickly: A... TABLESPOON!! Dr Quickly: DELICATELY I lever the layers of figures in my spread shets. Tabular data cupped in its gentle metal bowl! Oh yes! With it, cooking the books is a short order! Rabid: You talk about your ledgers as if they're phyllo pastry... How does this spoon WORK?! Dr Quickly: It is made of PUREST ACCOUNTIUM in a SPACE LABORATORY!! Dr Quickly: And it is specially measured to cut the "mustard" -- the curve of the depression precisely set up to... to make... Dr Quickly: ... to make up... Dr Quickly: ... OK it is a reg'lar spoon. Dr Quickly: But my ledgers ARE phyllo pastry -- and the FEDS are BUSTIN' DOWN THE DOOR... So grab a spoon and get CRAMMIN'!! Rabid: Yay! Noel Mauvais: WHAT? you ATE all the EVIDENCE?! I guess we'll have to GARNISH your WAGES!! You'll get the ELECTRIC CHERRY!!