Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 21, 2018

Hey Goat, words like “pretty” or “charming” not good enough for you?

Same here. When the woman looks winsome, I never win anything.

Should Goat use a word like appealing, Pig would be thinking about bananas and oranges. Endearing would get Pig thinking about venison….

Pigshouldwintryagain.

And don’t even get Pig started with the Irish clan of MacHine.

When she smiles she looks like Miss Winsome from “Agatha Crumm.”

Pig is Charlie Brown sometimes.

When it comes to Pig?

No on the first.

Yes on the second.

It is the smile of resignation!

It’s OK pig, you can’t win em all, it’s the roll of the dice, a crap shoot. She has a 7/11 smile.

Winsome is the name of a cigarette, right? No, it’s the name of a donut shop.

Right when you winsome, you smile. Seems simple enough.

I think Pig is my spirit animal, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Pig actually used “winsome” correctly in the first panel.

You winsome, you losesome, and some get rained out

And I wince some at these jokes…. ;)

Alas, Pig, I understand what you are saying!

I don’t understand why goat felt the need to ask pig about the word. Okay, it set up the punchline, but still, non-Rat friends shouldn’t look for stuff to correct.

You win some, you lose some, and you tie on rarer occasions.