The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush Volume 456

"I'll take a half-and-half, barkeep!" Mogey said one afternoon as he and Smush had stepped into the local pub for some refreshments.

"And I'll have a cherry soda," Smush chimed in. The bartender grunted in response and soon plunked a full mug down before each of them.

Mogey took a large gulp, made a horrible face, and sprayed a mouthful of liquid onto the mirror behind the bar.

"Ugh! " Mogey groaned. "What is this?"

"It's half-and-half, just like you ask for!" the dismayed bartender replied. "Half dark beer and half light!"

"Well it's horrible," Mogey said. "I was referring to the dairy version of a half-and-half. Duh."

The frustrated bartender poured Mogey a frosty new mug and set it in front of him. Once again Mogey took a large gulp, and once again he sprayed it out of his mouth, all over a nearby couple this time.

"This is awful too!" Mogey shrieked, wiping his tongue off with a napkin.

"But I made you a dairy half-and-half," the bartender insisted. "Half milk and half cream."

"What a dreadful sounding combination," Mogey replied. "Where I come from, a half-and-half is half cream, and the other half is cream as well."