The History of Something, Part I

We interrupt our regularly scheduled cartoon to bring you this important public service presentation. Accuracy in all things is important to us, and our resident scholar il Professore has kindly pointed out an anomaly in a previous cartoon, to wit, furniture style. This prompted us to turn to our vast research department for clarification. Hours of dedicated searching through history books, dusty files, Internet sites, and stacks of old phone bills have turned up absolutely nothing regarding the origin of Ikea's table design, nor about anything else, for that matter. The best they could do was confirm that man was indeed descended from apes. Once homo sapiens had made that glorious leap from swinging through trees to walking with bad posture, it was only a short step to using a fork, which is what led to the invention of the table. Sitting on the ground eating with silverware just doesn't cut it, and balancing a plate on one's knees came much later, with the advent of the buffet (which was brought about by the Great Chair Shortages of the late 16th century). On the other hand, given the daily regurgitations of the news media, we don't need much evidence that we are still, at heart, gorillas.