Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 07, 2024

I hope this isn’t an eye for an eye situation.

Speaking of red eye, that’s a GREAT flick!!!! Dan aka a TRUE Wes craven fan!!!!

Born with red eyes? They’re starting to drink way too early these days.

… since Rat cannot unsee that, he might as well give Pastis a black and blue eye.

I’d like to sleep on that one

I thought it was my last flight, I flew from PHX to FL 1st class on a red eye. I don’t care it was a great seat. No services. I don’t care. I MIGHT fly to LV this summer and might do the same

Do they have red eye flights anymore?

Anyone else remember the comic strip ‘Redeye’?

From Red Stick to Rat Mouth ( yeah, it’s really Mouse Mouth )

Well, it looked red in the photo, anyway.

Better than pink eye!

Pupils are seen as black because it’s a hole to let light in. The first black hole.

So is Red eye an airline or something? Not American so I don’t get the joke.

He who likes red eyes must love cicadas!

Eye red it twice but still no gets it.

Well rat started it this time.

Do red pupils even exist?

Gravy.

Best red eye flight I ever had was non-stop from Honolulu to Toronto. Over the Pacific we had the usual service of the period — meal, drinks, movie — and then everyone went to sleep just as the sun was coming up. I am unable to sleep on airplanes so I kept my window open just enough to see out (I had chosen port side window seat for just this purpose).

The first thing I saw was the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay. Then some low mountains, the big valley, much higher mountains, possibly Lake Tahoe, then an endless expanse of brown desert with nothing to be seen but a dirt track miles below.

Later I saw the Great Salt Lake so I knew we were over Utah, followed by very high mountains coming almost halfway up to where we were. Then farmland, Chicago, Lake Michigan and so on until we got home.

For most of this time I believe I was the only person awake in the cabin and, I suspect, at least in the early part of the flight the pilots, too, may have been asleep.

Not one cloud the entire trip — that never happens.

The Ivy League and other colleges are having riots and anti Semitic demonstrations and other disruptions etc by Far Left Red Pupils. Marxist red and Jihad Joe completely ignores it. Of course he would because the hand in the sock puppet is, of course, Commo’bama. God Bless America.

I hate red eye flights since I can’t sleep on airplanes even in a lay flat seat.

Well, it’s better than pink. :D

I don’t think you can legally carry unattached body parts on the plane, but maybe if he put it in his pocket or something…

Maybe Rat’s Dr. Friend is a Star Pupil. Rat has a friend?

This felt like a drive-by-punning…

…and then I immediately realized that it was more of a drive-by-double-entendre-ing…

Jackson R is gonna get you for that, Steph.

It’s not that rare. Just look at all the photos of people I took.

So do the rest of us, Rat.

The pupil is just a hole in the iris. It can’t be red. When you see it in flash photography, it’s just a reflection off the blood vessels in the back of the eye.

Focus, Stephan.

Red-eye, set, go!

“You can’t unsee it” always reminds me of a Futurama episode I wish I hadn’t seen.

STEPHAN!!! HYSTERICAL!!!!!

or all the stoners fly out of Colorado or Vegas

I wish I could see more puns like this, albeit more clear ones. Never heard of “red eyes” until now.

Pastis, you are relentless… lolololol

Nah, that guy was drunk when he died, hence the red eyes

That’s a lot less labored and more organic than most PBS puns.

Don’t fall for it, Pig. Pupils can’t be red.

Yes, from Gnome Alaska. And, your days are gnome-bered.

He worked the graveyard shift.

Stephan deserves a black one for this. Go ahead, Rat…we’re all with ya!

yes

Actually, having a mental image of certain body parts takes guts.

It’s probably illegal to study that in Florida. Everything else is.

Pastis hit another homerun.

OMG — LOLOL

Wanna buy a lid?

It would have worked better if it started with crimson pupils instead of red.

rat should mean “un-hear” that

Oh, Stephan!!!!!

That was a good one Pastis!