Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 24, 2016

I have seen a couple like that in my neighborhood.

That’s Bolshevik.

If I ordered a Shirley Temple, would I get the corpse of the late early 20th-century child actress?

Is Pastis the last one on Earth to use that joke?

If we’re going to be literal, I’ll take a Margarita, throw in a Shady Lady as well.

Is this close enough?

Goat has a first name?

Careful. You don’t want to get Rocky and Bullwinkle involved.

The only time I have ever ordered a white russian was while playing blackjack in Las Vegas. A couple of free rounds of those, and my money is gone in a few hands. d’oh!

And I wonder… Do they watch Rocky and Bullwinkle reruns in present day Russia or any of the other former Soviet bloc nations? I know that at the time of the show’s original run that the Russians found it offensive to their dialectical/materialist sensibilities.

How about a Boiler-Maker ?

Tbh all things concidered you have to give cartoon characters some representing looks, so you can´t get around not using a stereotype.

Though they look like a stereotype of RED Russians not white.

I find it hard to believe that’s the best Pastis could do…..he must have just been Puttin’ around.

The Rude abides.

at he didn’t say “black”

Pastis needs to quit Stalin and get on with it.

White RussiansPlaying chess with your black heartBeneath the starsWhite RussiansFacing death to save their past

What if Goat asked for a Bloody Mary?

I don’t think Russians wear red stars on their hats anymore…

I asked for sex on the beach. Still waiting.

White Russians didn’t wear Red stars.That’s what made them WHITE Russians (opposing the Red Bolsheviks)

The Blue Hawaiian went to Long Island for an Iced tea and saw a Zombie. “Shisho Fine!” he said through a Screaming Orgasim.

Mmmmm… White Russian… One of Ben & Jerry’s most delicious concoctions. Alas, it has long been consigned to the flavor graveyard. Apparently it shows up in Scoop Shops, but there are none near me. I’ve tried looking for a recipe, but no luck. Not that a recipe would do me any good without an ice cream maker..I must now console myself with CoffeeToffee.

Fortunately, he didn’t ask for a Hop, Skip and Go Naked…

On the show Bewitched, when a guest asked for a scotch on the rocks, Samantha (was that her name?) accidentally produced a Scot(ch), in kilt and all, standing on some rocks. Same old pun.

This strip could use a “Depth Charge”

They’re triplets with the bar-keep? Sons of the Octomom?

As always, I find that the characters’ reaction to the bad joke is actually the joke…That being said, nobody seems to notice that Pastis messed this up completely : given the little red star on their hats, those are RED russians, not white ones !But maybe it is part of the joke.

There is a drink called “White Russians”?Obviously an American thing. The only one I’ve heard of is “Jack On The Rocks”xxx

That would have been a Comic Censor strip.

@daDoctah

Extremely lame pun. But I might have to go watch Young Frankenstein just to see Peter Boyle sing that line.

If I were you, Cartoon-Boy (and luckily for us both, I’m not), I’d fire that bartender, then duck and run! Another lame pun!

A grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says, “You know, we have a drink named after you” and the grasshopper says “What, Kevin?”

The next week a White Russian walks into the same bar and again the bartender says, “You know, we have a drink named after you”, so Kevin takes off his disguise and says “How did you know it was me?”

These two guys would be Red Russians i.e. Communists (note the tiny red star) – White Russians were the ones loyal to the Czar in the Russian civil war which followed WWI and the Bolshevik coup in 1917.