Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 21, 2015
Transcript:
Pig: I think I met a space alien. Goat: What are you talking about? Pig: He's standing by a parked car down the road. Goat: And what makes you say he's a space alien? Pig; Well, he looks normal, but he talks funny and he keeps saying weird things like. 'I need a liter of petrol.' Goat: Pig, he's probably just british. 'Petrol' is what they call gas. Let's go help him. Goat: Pardon me, sir, but I have the amount of petrol you need back at home. I can go get it and bring it to you, or you can just follow me. Guy: Take me to your liter. Pig: Aaaaahhhhhh. Goat: Long storoy.
BE THIS GUY almost 9 years ago
Now, this guy is just messing with Pig.
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
Mr. Patsis, the British spelling is “litre.” Nice semi-pun, by the way.
aardvarkseyes almost 9 years ago
He’s an imposter! The British spell it “litre!”
salakfarm Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Pastis, the world’s best/worst punster/
favm almost 9 years ago
@ Templo S.U.D. – Sometimes you have to force your pun.
Sherlock Watson almost 9 years ago
This one ranks high on the laugh-metre.
Bilan almost 9 years ago
Just don’t tell Pig to put the gas in the boot.
knight1192a almost 9 years ago
Sick joke.
spikelovesmusic almost 9 years ago
As someone once remarked to Schubert,“Take us to your Lieder.”
(borrowed from Tom Lehrer)
PICTO almost 9 years ago
I thought the British word for “gas” was “breaking wind”.
Sisyphos almost 9 years ago
Since Cartoon-Boy is published in the USA, the spelling of litre was “corrected” to confirm to local norms. But the joke is aural for Pig, who is predictably caught up in the Aliens Among Us delusion and takes the required comedic pratfall….
grampianlothian almost 9 years ago
I’m a-gassed (aghast) at the forced pun here…….
Well I did try. No worse than some of stephan’s puns!
Arianne almost 9 years ago
If the guy was German- Canadian instead of British, we could say he was litre hosin’ Pig.
Claire Jordan almost 9 years ago
Although the breaking wind one was originally spelled vert. That’s why “buck verteth” is one of the signs of summer listed in the 13th C poem “Summer is Icumen in”.
Jonathan Mason almost 9 years ago
No sh** Sherlock
Jonathan Mason almost 9 years ago
Nothing wrong with the word fart, except to prudish American ears
Jonathan Mason almost 9 years ago
A British man of the age alluded to in the cartoon would still refer to petrol in gallons. It’s only the younger generations who use metric more than Imperial.
whiteheron almost 9 years ago
Goat proudly exclaims, " I’ve got gas!".
juicebruce almost 9 years ago
What if we put a second “T” in liter ?
mammamoonbeam almost 9 years ago
Reading these comments is almost as much fun as reading PBS! Pastis certainly has an erudite and articulate following!
kwschatz almost 9 years ago
That’s 2/3 of a pun. P U.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I had to read it a couple of times to get the drift. It was a stretch.
Stocky One almost 9 years ago
You mean my wife? Trust me, you wouldn’t want to metre…
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Reminds me of the Brit who visited the US. He rented a car and was touring when the car started giving him problems. He pulled into a garage for help. The mechanic looked over the problem and said, “It just needs a little elbow grease”…. whereupon the Brit said, “Great, give me two liters”.
A_NY_Outlaw almost 9 years ago
those Brits are crazy.
Pointspread almost 9 years ago
Do you think this is a one time pun or Pastis will try to get more mileage out of it?
ThumperMcDuff almost 9 years ago
My British cousin would ask, “Litre? How much is that in old money?”
abbybookcase almost 9 years ago
some years ago, (30?) a friend was entertaining a british visitor. they were in a restaurant(you could still smoke &dine) and she offered him a cigarette. he said no thank you, maybe later. after getting through more of the meal he said, i’ll have that f-g now, if you don’t mind. she was somewhat taken aback till she realized what was being said. as george bernard shaw said,england &america are 2 countries separated by the same language
ChessPirate almost 9 years ago
“Litre? I didn’t even metre!”
Number Three almost 9 years ago
Why do some Americans think that we British people are from another planet?
As much as I enjoy American humour (not humor) I just felt like asking that question.
xxx
RG_Dustbin almost 9 years ago
In many cases the ‘wrong’ yankee spelling is more true to the spelling from England three hundred or more years ago. Quite a few of the odd British spellings (favour, color, humour for example) only stem from Victorian days when the spelling was formalised in what they felt was a more ‘refined’ way.
Also in many cases it was only in the same Victorian days that ‘rude’ word in English actually became ‘rude’!
As to English weather -we have that in lieu of climate, and for English cuisine our bread is the best in the world if you make sure of staying a good bargepole distance clear of the Chorleywood process rubbish!
jerylkohjx348 almost 9 years ago
It’s like the chips-crisps confusion all over again!
mytly4 almost 9 years ago
The British pronunciation of ‘litre’ would not sound like ‘leader’.
fredd13 almost 9 years ago
Yeah, but in Britain we elide those words rather less than the US does. (Never seen the point of that, personally. If you already know the word I’m writing, how does my simply spelling it correctly somehow make it more offensive? What are you – six, or something?)