Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 17, 2015

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    BE THIS GUY  over 8 years ago

    After you drop the hamster off, you can go to Frankfurt to get a frankfurter.

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    cdgar  over 8 years ago

    That looks like my hamster. Cute little guys.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 8 years ago

    In panel 4, the hamster — realizing that he won’t be sent to the city of legal pot and hookers — says one word:“Dam.”

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 8 years ago

    There is no hamster river either, Pig.

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    markzwaan  over 8 years ago

    The river that Amsterdam was built on is called the Amstel. Which also happens to be the name of a beer brand (Amstel bier) that was brewed and drunk in Amsterdam since 1860. But now is owned by Heineken and sold all around the world.

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    dadoctah  over 8 years ago

    Just a reminder, it’s not “Hampster”. There is no P in hamster..Unless you squeeze them really hard.

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    Kind&Kinder  over 8 years ago

    I love a good metaphysical question. Thanks, Pig.

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    knight1192a  over 8 years ago

    What holds back the river? A boy sticking his finger in the dike. (Please, no correcting me about the story of the Dutch boy plugging the leak in the dike with his finger if you don’t get that this was a sarcastic joke aimed at Pig)

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    steve7701 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Hamsterdam? I’d say this strip is a tribute to “The Wire,” Season 3.

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    mammamoonbeam  over 8 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5adq7hF8Zw

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    wcorvi  over 8 years ago

    I made a hamster and swiss on rye once, but he ate all the lettuce before I could eat the sandwich.

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    Sisyphos  over 8 years ago

    Give the hamster to Pig, Goat, and let him find out for himself on Pig’s Big European Adventure!

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    JudyAz  over 8 years ago

    In the late 1920s, President Hoover was watching a presentation by his Secretary of the Interior, who was describing a particularly wild section of the Colorado River as it roared through a gorge.

    It was such a hazard, and the Secretary asked the President, “What should be done about this part of the river?”

    The President stood up to walk over to the display to get a better view. He stubbed his toe on a desk, and as he winced in pain he shouted, “Dammit!”

    So they did.

    Even named it after him.

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    Ermine Notyours  over 8 years ago

    Knock knockWho’s there?AmsterdamAmsterdam who?Amsterdam tired of these pun strips. ;)

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    Sheila Hardie  over 8 years ago

    Hmmm… he has time to dawdle at… wherever he is right now… but no time to take care of a hamster? I call shenanigans.

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    dre7861  over 8 years ago

    Or you could send him to New Hamstershire. It’s much closer and he can vote in the upcoming presidential primary.

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    bookworm0812  over 8 years ago

    My best friend will take him in!

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    Number Three  over 8 years ago

    “Hamsterdam”

    Cute. Very cute!

    xxx

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    abbybookcase  over 8 years ago

    beautiful. the best version of this song i’ve heard. and i’m a fan of jaques brel with a couple different versions of jb is alive and well and living in paris

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    mammamoonbeam  over 8 years ago

    Dear Alexi, great thanks for trying to upgrade my computer skills. Although I am very appreciative of your efforts, what in the world is Word Pad"? I have never heard the term before.Enlighten me?

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    Logical Duck  over 8 years ago

    So is Rotterdam full of cads?

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    blunebottle  over 8 years ago

    Re: live links.Thanks, I’ll try that.

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    abbybookcase  over 8 years ago

    but the show with that title lives on. they also made a movie of the show

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    bmonk  over 8 years ago

    The lemmings hold back the Hamster river?

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    Uskoke  over 8 years ago

    @leftwingpatriot:my godmother, who’s german and from Frankfurt am Main (which is the full german name) says there’re no frankfurters in Frankfurt, it’s a foreign invention, like the chinese fortune cookies.the most common german fast food is Currywurst (=curry sausage)

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