Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 25, 2013

Love his shorts.

Sweet! Li’l Guard Duck & Snuffles both!What can LGD show Snuffles about sportsmanship? If it looks like you’re losing, get the grenade launcher?

Either Guard Duck understands sportsmanship or he thinks a bazooka is a more appropriate weapon.Which is it?

Aww, Mr. Snuffles, with the currently-fashionable extra-long shorts! Despite his penchant for drastic means, I think Little Guard Duck does understand “sportsmanship” (e.g., offer your prisoner a last cigarette before you shoot him). Mr. Snuffles, being of the feline persuasion, may have a different outlook….

How about “RAT” teaching sportsmanship ?

Cats don’t need knives, they have claws.

Guard Duck and sportmanship just don’t seem to go together. His advocating not using a weapon is strange for his character. But we see him advocating against hunting knives, will he advocate against using guns in basketball games too? Or will it be okay to use hand grenades? And seriously, what chance does the other team have against Mr Snuffles. The last time I was taught anything about the game traveling was when you took so many steps without dribbling, nothing says it’s travelling if you don’t take a step as far as I know. And Mr Snuffles is the heli-kitty, he could just fly to the basket.

Why not cut your opponent down to size?

Wait, wait,wait, did Guard Duck just go against a tactic that involves violence!?

If the ref don’t see it, then it ain’t a foul.

NCAA rules, hunting knives are okay in the NBA

I’ll say this: they both loove warfare. You gotta love Snuffle’s shorts!

He’s nothing but a head in shorts.

I don’t think I’d want to play against their team…

There’s a fine line between strategy and sportsmanship. It’s about as fine as… say the width of the Mississippi River – no, wait… the Rocky Mountain range.

STILL no crocs!!

Who gets the dubious honor of being “Tatman” for LGD’s team? Bob the Croc?

Mr. Snuffles is indeed a very slow learner…..he has no visible tattoos.

Hunting knives aren’t weapons. They’re tools.

Nice shorts! and…let’s hear it for the kids at Florida Gulf Coast…giving hope to kids in small schools everywhere! Well done! =^..^=

give him time tho,

He’s a real Lebron.

Sure packs a lot of meaning in a simple “MEOW” . . ☻☻

where are Snuffles hands?? How can he throw the ball??

So that’s what ‘MEOW’ means. Don’t turn your back on your meowing cat.

LGD says, “Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.”

Should be MUCH more of MR. Snuffles on this strip!!!! Maybe as a landlord for the crocs in a new apartment bldg., or something strange like that……. ;-)

Use an assault weapon. The NRA will defend your ‘right’ to use them.

How can Mr Snuffles play ball with no arms??

Mr Snuffles looks comical!

LOL xxx

He’s a little short for a center.

Another practice in basketball is called “hacking.” But, can you use a real hacksaw?

Does it actually say in the rules that you can’t use weapons during play?

I want a Mr. Snuffles t-shirt.

This is why I stopped watching basket ball, when MJ became the Thing that saved the game and turned Basketball to Travelball.

I lost interest when a player (MJ in particular) could approach the basket by dribbling backwards and bumping the defender with his butt, even knocking him down, with no penalty.

Oh, that Guard Duck…….turning that nice kitty into another Clint Eastwood.

Hopefuly, by mid-season, Mr. Snuffles will eschew mayhem.

Yay, Snuffles is back! I missed him.

This is like when they had the baseball team strand that was riffing off Peanuts…

Why not, Guard duck?

What happened to little Dinky Duck?