The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for January 16, 2023

You’re pulling my legume.

I was just kid-ney!

. . . haven’t BEAN trying . . .

she’s stringing you along

“Miso soy-ry this o-curd. The Father of Limas has rooted a-mung us many weak, pale sprouts, fed by heretical garbanzo. May I not be edamame and refried for eternity!”

It’s OK, she is just full of gas…

If you know me, you’ll know how much I hate interrupting a pun-fest…

but I’ve got some bad news I really have to deliver.

It’s about our friend Plods… people in this forum have kindly asked about him…

and I’d previously talked about his recovery from a long-awaited lung transplant.

…

Until about a few weeks ago, he was still occasionally posting on “Cleo and Company”, and also e-mailing me.

He said he was having a hard time, but his doctors thought he was making good progress.

Yesterday, worrying because I hadn’t heard anything lately, I googled his name and where he lived…

And, sadly, found out that he’d passed away on January 10th.

Sorry to tell you.

I know we’ll all miss him.

Plods will be missed.

Can’t wait for the musical based on these events.

I’ve bean wondering when someone was going to go there….

A Pinto-gram?

And the vomiting scene with the pea soup was real.

Too early, too early, too early…

Wow! Just Wow!

You don’t want to smell why she’s hovering above that bed.

Somebody better check her vital signs…especially her pulse!!

They should get her to a bathroom before this chickpeas in her bed!

If this will be her second time ending up in He**, then she’ll be a re-fried bean.

Woooooow. WHY do I reads the comics everyday exactly??? (JK, I LIVE for terrible puns! Why do you think I have stuffed animals of the “Pearls” gang?)

It’s suddenly very chili in here.

I’ve heard of jumping beans, but…

Idiots don’t know beans about their subject.

What, no Black-eyed Peas poster?

Somebody is gonna be refried in heII for this.

This comic really beets all the others today.

Holy Jumping Beans…

I give this panel a two farty out of a possible two fifty.

Alas. She’s a legume in her own mind.

Well that is just a pun onslaught. Shock and awe. Overwhelm all opposition and take no prisoners. And that only refers to the comments. This entire web page is a cascade of puns to withstand the test of time, like a Canterbury tale.

Sounds like an explosive situation.