Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 17, 2013
Transcript:
Goat: What are you writing, Rat? Rat: A sequel to the Headless Horseman story... the guy will do anything to find a new head, so he exploits all his personal relationships with others to get one. Goat: So he uses people to get a head? Rat: Your humor's both sleepy and hollow.
jluetge almost 11 years ago
Now that’s funny.
Templo S.U.D. almost 11 years ago
Didn’t see that coming, did you, Rat?
margueritem almost 11 years ago
Snerk!
Bilan almost 11 years ago
Then he paid an arm and a leg to get what he wants, but he just ended up a little behind.
firedome almost 11 years ago
thanks again, mr. p.! !
alviebird almost 11 years ago
I thought this is the best one in a while.
Sisyphos almost 11 years ago
Plain and simple. And a commercial tie-in for an upcoming new TV show. Payola: that explains it!
jbpink46 almost 11 years ago
Just when I think Stephan has run out of these ^*(&# puns he has another one. Thanks, Bruno, for putting a little alternate perspective in here. Just remember what George Carlin said about sewing: you can prick your finger but you can’t …. (from his AM FM comedy album).
guitarmutt almost 11 years ago
Hey! Two jokes for the price of none. Awesome.
boogshine almost 11 years ago
I got distracted by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow not containing an actual headless horseman in Washington Irving’s story.
eddie6192 almost 11 years ago
Toon Boy is a headcase.
jmartin1955 almost 11 years ago
Laugh out loud
finale almost 11 years ago
Naturally.
JB10000Lakes almost 11 years ago
Must have seen the promo for the upcoming series; this could easily have revolved around a grocer and some lettuce or cabbage.
puddlesplatt almost 11 years ago
where was I?
Arty8846 almost 11 years ago
My hero…….
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Gotta go with the rodent today!
rawcats almost 11 years ago
Excelsior!
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I prefer to suspend all real-world belief when I read this strip. That way I don’t anticipate anything, and the PUNch line is always a pleasant treat. Good way to start the day. Thanks Pastis-Dude
HankTheSock almost 11 years ago
Quiet, Rat…I love these strips!
Reppr Premium Member almost 11 years ago
My humor is hollow and I am sleepy. Now if I can just combine the two….
Kathy Freeman almost 11 years ago
papagary almost 11 years ago
This is the comic genius I love.
comicsboi Premium Member almost 11 years ago
One of his better word play strips, no doubt.
Gokie5 almost 11 years ago
1. Often I know one is coming, but can’t figure it out. I figured this one out.2. I was ferrying the grandkids around, and we passed a sign that said, “STOP AHEAD.” The g’kids had all kinds of fun with “STOP! A HEAD!” Maybe you had to be there.
krbuza almost 11 years ago
Oy, poor Rat has spent too much time around Stephan and has started using bad puns himself. (Loved it).
legaleagle48 almost 11 years ago
That one was so subtle that I almost missed it. Well played, Stephan!
ChessPirate almost 11 years ago
“And now I’m gonna Rip your Van Winkle!”
Popeyesforearm almost 11 years ago
he’s also out of his gourd
Sherlock Watson almost 11 years ago
Some guys will do anything to get some head.
knight1192a almost 11 years ago
Sounds like Pastis is a fan of the old Disney “Sleepy Hollow” cartoon. I can just hear Bing Crosby singing
And there’s no spookLike a spook that’s spurnedThey don’t like himAnd he’s really burnedHe swears to the longest day he’s deadHe’ll show them that he canCan get a head
They say he’s tired of his flamin’ topHe’s got a yen to make a swapSo he rides one night each yearTo find a head in the Hollow here
Now he like’s ‘em littleHe like’s ’em bigPart in the middleOr a wigBlack or white or even redThe Headless Horseman needs a head
“With a hip hipAnd a clipity clopHe’s out lookin’ for a top to chopSo don’t stop to figure out a planYou can’t reason with a headless man
Loved that cartoon as a kid. Used to get my folks to rent “Disney’s Halloween Treat” just to watch it then they got me the cartoon by itself in my early teens. It was also around that time that I first started collecting “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in book form, all because of that one cartoon. Now I have two different copies of the Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon just for the addendum material in each concerning the short story.
JettaJ almost 11 years ago
MR. PASTIS: I worship at your Punster altar. Please, never,never stop.
lmonteros almost 11 years ago
Chalk one up for Rat!
Gokie5 almost 11 years ago
Commenters: Glad to see that STOP AHEAD has brought joy – many must have reveled in it. A friend from Chicago said that his daughters always cracked up over a sign pointing to the Grand Village of the Kickapoo.
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 11 years ago
Two puns in the same strip? What are the odds?
seanyj almost 11 years ago
This man is nuts!
neckback almost 11 years ago
I suppose he was looking for a lonely head i.e. one that had nobody
Gokie5 almost 11 years ago
I was at a Scout camp once where they had a one-holer. There were also some more-than-one holers, but they called this one “Lonesome George.” (Remember George Gobel, anyone?)
dolf37 over 6 years ago
Oups, was I the only one who misunderstood and thought of “getting a head” as being the receipt-point of someone giving head?
One Navy Seal almost 4 years ago
He’s lost his head!