Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 20, 2024

At least there’s no “barista” around.

Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9.

If it made iced coffee, you could put your hands underneath.

My cup sits on a drain cover and has a large enough drain cup for the largest coffee selection. The first time that I came back to grab my cup and there was nothing there, I was mystified for a moment. It’s happened a time or two since. But now I quickly grab the drain cup and empty it.

It’s totally unfair to require one to actually operate a coffee machine prior to the consumption of coffee.

Though it’s also an environmental disaster to use K-cups.

Perhaps leave a stack of coffee cups or mugs next to the machine.

Pearls Before Swine has been brought to you today by the number 5. (Sesame Street reference)

Pig on cloud 9 eh.

FIVE. NINE. Either number is more than the number of times I have made coffee. And I’m 75.

Pastis confession time? But humor of the scenario seems limited. Maybe the machine should have a safety switch to detect a cup?

Finally, one mistake I didn’t make!

It’s the ultimate in automation. Not only does the machine make the coffee, it drinks it for you too!

But the correct number of times will turn out to be…..42

Pig needs a French Press or Percolator pot.

Kuerig? Meh!

Do you have hair down below your knees?

I don’t have a Keurig machine at home, and don’t want one. But I’ve never done this with the machine at work.

Granted, I’m awake by the time that I get there.

I have put the cup under the nozzle, and pressed the button having forgot to put a pod in. In my defense, I needed coffee to be awake enough to make coffee. A catch 22… Hey! another number!

And that’s part of the reason I don’t drink coffee.

I use the Keurig only on Sunday so that has never been a problem. On the other hand, the number of times I started making coffee in the drip without putting coffee in: two.

Walked into the cafe at work and there was a river of coffee on the floor. Someone started the coffee machine and didn’t put a pot in it.

I have the kind that makes a pot as well as single servings. I have put a pod in and pushed the pot button instead of the cup button. Talk about doing a quick reset! The pot side doesn’t have a handy catch thingy.

Keurigs are so wasteful.

Of course, the little plastic cups are recyclable, but we know how committed most Americans are to recycling. (insert Fox-fed rant about how recycling is a LIBERAL COMMUNIST PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA or some **** like that)

I do that occasionally. Fortunately, the cup holder of the machine will hold 8 oz of liquid

Don’t forget the time you put the cup on the little tray upside down. Told to The Count by a friend. A close friend… Fun Fact: Ever notice how the Keurig tray holds one cup of coffee?

Been there, done that, cleaned it up.

9. That’s 45. A good number. A solid number.

—Inspector Franklin Jalbert, Kansas Bureau of Investigation

Keurig coffee is somewhere between Navy and joe.

Love you, Pig and Rat.

Use a regular coffee maker. It doesn’t drip unless a pot is under it. It’s also cheaper. You can also decide to make it a little stronger or weaker if you want to. And putting a scoop of coffee into a coffee filter isn’t really harder than taking a pod and putting it into a machine.

Sounds like a Sesame Street segment. The number of the day or something like that.

Related problem: I make a cup for me and my wife after dinner. I forget to change out the cup before starting the second brew.

That’s almost as bad as starting the popcorn popper and forgetting to put the lid on

Worst song written as well as recorded by ANYONE EVER!

Now that’s dumb

Looks like Pastis farmed out the drawing of pig in panel #2. Looks like the kid from Family Circle drew it.

I made coffee two days in a row but forgot to grind the beans.

Today’s Special! It’s for everyone! Today’s Special! Come join in the fun!

i can relate

Weird Al would approve IF the number was 27.

What? Not Nespresso?

For the past thirty years or so I’ve been using a Melitta filter for each cup. It’s just a ceramic cone that holds a piece of filter paper into which you put enough freshly ground coffee for a single cup. It takes about 20 seconds to filter into the cup and you have a really FRESH cup of coffee every time you have one. Can’t be beat by ANY coffee maker I’ve ever used.

I made 8 o’clock coffee at 9am and was barista’d

I run mine in the dish pan, just to be sure. But why do I have to push buttons twice to get a full mug-o-Joe? And why do I get the feeling of new printer cartridges every time I insert another pod?

Tom Griswold has done this several times.

No cup? That’s nothin’. Brew a whole pot of coffee, but forget to put the pot under the brewer: Now there’s a real mess!

Anyone read “Non Sequitur” comic today? Reminds me of Pig would say!

Literally happened to me last Sunday. Thank goodness a Keurig is single serve!

Keurig: an overpriced coffee machine.

The only times I’ve ever done it was when I was really sick. The last time I had Covid.

Five – the number of times “spam risk” came up on my caller ID last night between 7 and 9. Apparently the RNC was really desperate to know that I will NOT be voting in the August election.

26 If.

I can beat that. Twice now, I have been cleaning up after changing the oil in my car, and found the oil pan plug. DOH!!

Keurig machines and their ilk emit a brown fluid. From a distance it looks like coffee.

Reminds me of one place I used to work. The coffee vending machine in the break room had a bad habit of dropping cups so that they’d fall over and the coffee would go down the drain. I probably saved my supervisor at least a couple of bucks per week pointing this out in time for him to straighten up the cup.

Hey, a Fermi problem in PBS.

How do you mess that up that many times?

I work at a theater in Concessions. You only forget the carafe once.