Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 04, 2013

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    Sherlock Watson  over 10 years ago

    I saw this pun coming in the first panel, but the payoff was still brilliantly funny. Bravo, Stephan.:Maybe Goat would be in a better mood if he made a little doe.

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    hariseldon59  over 10 years ago

    Don’t worry, a spoonful of sugar helps the puns go down.

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    TooOldToBeCool  over 10 years ago

    [Bullwinkle]I think I shall now be sick.[/Bullwinkle]

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    seyleigh  over 10 years ago

    Clever?

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    seyleigh  over 10 years ago

    Sorry, I meant to say clever!

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 10 years ago

    Now that was quite atrocious in the second to the last panel.

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    kamb8  over 10 years ago

    Yes, that’s what those last panels are for. And I’m pretty sure he doesn’t read these comments, so giving him your feedback here isn’t going to help.

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    naturally_easy  over 10 years ago

    Well, corny or not, it was still impressive that Stephan pulled it off with only four panels for the setup. Good job.

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    Sisyphos  over 10 years ago

    Julie Andrews has a penchant for famously salty language. So I’m sure she’d be even more explicit than Rat in saying just exactly what Cartoon-Pastis deserves for perpetrating this highly contrived groaner.I, for my part, kinda liked it because it was so well contrived….

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    hariseldon59  over 10 years ago

    Doe, a deer, a female deer …

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    blunebottle  over 10 years ago

    Reminiscent of an old 1-panel comic which portrayed visual puns (can’t remember the name)- a picture went with each part:

    Super CowA Fragile ListStickEggsPeaAlleyDoughShush!

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    zero  over 10 years ago

    Rhymes with atrocious?

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    corzak  over 10 years ago

    Long row to hoe.

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    rawcats  over 10 years ago

    Bravo! Bravisimo! Right on target!

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    rono38  over 10 years ago

    The man just can’t help himself, thankfully.

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    edclectic  over 10 years ago

    I’ll be glad to do it for Mary…

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    milhouse.vh  over 10 years ago

    What’s a super doing visiting the building? Isn’t he there every day? And how is he making decisions about raising rent, let alone about selling the place? Since when does a super have such authority?

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    michaelyukyuk  over 10 years ago

    Grooooooooaaaaaaaannnnnnn (Labored groan for a labored pun)

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    jazzmoose  over 10 years ago

    I could see it coming from the first panel but couldn’t look away. Damn you, Pastis!

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    lunatics_fringe Premium Member over 10 years ago

    To paraphrase Kitty Pryde as written by Warren Ellis: “Reading these pun strips is like watching train wreck: horrible but strangely fascinating.” _

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    edclectic  over 10 years ago

    Maybe too late for Pastis, but we can always take out a restraining order on you…

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    theorgandude  over 10 years ago

    Heard Pastis was going to help write a new movie script: “Any Given Punday”.

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    PUNishment  over 10 years ago

    Could happen.

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    maryswigm Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Love the puns !!!!!!! This one is great. Quit complaining people, you get straight comics more than 95% of the time.This made my day……………………

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    Spotted Owl  over 10 years ago

    Very clever and fun too.

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    TheVernalPool  over 10 years ago

    Lame or not, he attracts a lot of comments, I’d say he’s doing something right.

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    peaple  over 10 years ago

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    joeshmo30  over 10 years ago

    hahaha!!! that is the best pun ive heard sence the one deer full wiz herd of hoss XD

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    joeshmo30  over 10 years ago

    come to think of it dident get fuzzy do somthing simaler to this a few years ago?

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    andreawinders  over 10 years ago

    I loved it. I knew it was coming but I laughed out loud anyway.

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    jmartin1955  over 10 years ago

    Awesome tortured pun

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    puddlesplatt  over 10 years ago

    Barf a little, cry a little….etc.

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    John Falstaff  over 10 years ago

    Pastis delenda est

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    Dave459  over 10 years ago

    Maybe if we ignore him . . .

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    edclectic  over 10 years ago

    C’mon now, she’s a saint! Of course, I’m a sinner. Although I’m not a virgin, I’ve still never had nun.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Those train comments reminded me that Ignatz’s great-great-grandnephew has a one-track mind…and said track is an abandoned spur!!

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    Thomas Overbeck Premium Member over 10 years ago

    EPIC! :)

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    corzak  over 10 years ago

    I love the female deer. Brought in by Pastis to represent one word of the pun, and then utter a single two-word line. What’s the pay rate for that in cartoon-world, I wonder?

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    rnmontgomery  over 10 years ago

    I did NAZI that coming

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    chief  over 10 years ago

    Brilliant!

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 10 years ago

    The hills are alive with the sound of THE MOB CHASING PASTIS…..Dough, is what I pay for beerRay, the guy who pours my beer.Me, I’m the one who drinks the beer,Far, I have to go for beer.So, I’ll have another beer.La! It’s almost closing time!Tea? I never touch the stuff.And now I find I have no dough….

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    dputhoff  over 10 years ago

    Great, I watched “Mary Poppins” Thursday night.

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    A_NY_Outlaw  over 10 years ago

    That started my Sunday off with an instant headache. Thanks Steph!

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    cdgar  over 10 years ago

    Great one!

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    jbmlaw01  over 10 years ago

    Worth the trip.

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    KEA  over 10 years ago

    Gawd, Stephan must have got a brain cramp figuring this one out.

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    Dr.Alexander  over 10 years ago

    This is classic Pastis. For which I wait and continue to read. It’s like the story of the long way to tip a rarery.

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    Defective Premium Member over 10 years ago

    This one was so transparent, it was obvious in the first frame. Really lost its punch.

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    ChessPirate  over 10 years ago

    I salute the master, Stephan Pastis!(bow, scrape)You should make Rat an accomplice in one of these, he’ll really love that!

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    Hoodude  over 10 years ago

    SP:SLM.even Fuzzy fans agree.

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    jimdebfarris  over 10 years ago

    SUPERB!

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 10 years ago

    Thank God this isn’t Aaron Neathery’s comic. Otherwise Ratwould actually say the “A” word!

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    RoscoeStar  over 10 years ago

    I actually loved it! Great panel :)

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    rgcviper  over 10 years ago

    [Face-palm]

    I knew something bad was coming, and … yeah.

    On the other hand, this was impressive work by Stephan.

    I probably shouldn’t encourage him, but I know jokes like this are why I love “Pearls”.

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    edclectic  over 10 years ago

    I do…

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    Milo Bloom  over 10 years ago

    In the paper version this morning, in the final panel, Mary has two Rs — Marry Poppins. An added dimension to the pun? Nah, just a typo.

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    justrex  over 10 years ago

    Man… When I make awful jokes like that, I get smacked. But him? He makes a living off of them….I’m obviously in the wrong business….

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    foxsinger Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Brilliant!

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    Number Three  over 10 years ago

    Don’t shoot the messenger, Stephan.

    LOL xxx

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    singlefemalelaywer  over 10 years ago

    Use a beach umbrella on him R a t !!!!!!!

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    bubjerryk  over 10 years ago

    It is scary to see Steph has not yet gone as low as he can

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    Ambydextrous  over 10 years ago

    Talk about convulated, and it’s a re-run at that

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    gumby_dammit223  over 10 years ago

    I don’t agree with Rat on most occasions, but on this one…

    Rat, I’ll hold him down!!

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    Soroxas  over 10 years ago

    You know, you can say it backwards, which is: Doe shush, Ally expects lipstick from Auntie Cali Rupes.

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    Gokie5  over 10 years ago

    IMO, if you said it backwards, you’d say, “suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus.”

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    berto162  over 10 years ago

    Too bad “Linus” mag is no longer on sale in Italy. But I wouldn’t have liked to be the poor guy being assigned the task of translating this.

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    steverinoCT  over 10 years ago

    My print paper spells it “Marry Poppins” in the last panel. Someone cheated and corrected it here…

    Of course, that saves a convoluted PeeWee Herman excuse: “I meant to do that!”

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    The Ex-Slayer  over 10 years ago

    Mary Poppins is a bad &@#

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    landsky  over 10 years ago

    I just love this. Absolutely adore it.

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    barister  over 10 years ago

    although I am not a fan of cursing, I do agree with Rat’s action. It must be a sllllooooowwww day in comic strip land.

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    rcdrake  over 10 years ago

    I really look forward to these, I love the PUNishment.

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    mardou2  over 10 years ago

    I laughed so hard I fell off my chair at this one, even though I did see it coming. Great!

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    jackproarty  about 5 years ago

    Hit him in his chim churoo chim churee!

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    IronBeagle  about 4 years ago

    Super callous fragile mystic hexed by halitosis

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    Caedmon The Great  over 3 years ago

    As soon as I heard rat’s last line in panel 1 I knew there was yet another bad pun coming our way.

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    LilPeruna  about 3 years ago

    Did you hear that Disney is starting up a dental practice? They’re going to specialize in bad breath symptoms. They’re calling it ‘SuperCaliFragilisticExtremeHalitosis’!

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    Josequeen   almost 3 years ago

    Ok, that was really good.

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