Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 18, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 4 years ago

    Of course it’s well hung. It’s an ELEPHANT!

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    Jacop✔️  almost 4 years ago

    Can someone explain, I feel like I am missing the joke.

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    eolan59  almost 4 years ago

    Seems like the censor is the one with a dirty mind

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    Baarorso  almost 4 years ago

    Elephant? If you mean a man who’s big, stubborn and has his own unshakeable ideas about how things are (in other words, YOU “Mr. Censor”) I’d say yes.;D

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    BasilBruce  almost 4 years ago

    Elephant? And here I thought the expression was “hung like a horse.”

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    marilynnbyerly  almost 4 years ago

    So, the elephant’s gay, too?

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    Concretionist  almost 4 years ago

    Better than calling it well hanged.

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    kaffekup   almost 4 years ago

    Shouldn’t the censor be asking Stephan?

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    GROG Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Pardon the pig.

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    B UTTONS  almost 4 years ago

    The elephant was hung low, which is all Rat can handle.

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    wiatr  almost 4 years ago

    I could say it’s hung low, in reference to the picture.

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    TampaFanatic1  almost 4 years ago

    Good one Pastis!

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    It looks like Elly, in which case the adjective “hung” would be inapplicable.

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    sirbadger  almost 4 years ago

    If it’s not straight, put it in the closet.

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    BirdyNumNum  almost 4 years ago

    Should have used a picture of John Dillermand

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    Mycroft holmes  almost 4 years ago

    this has run already i think

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    blunebottle  almost 4 years ago

    Rat, you have a hammer in your hand and the censor’s feet are so close….

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    Qiset  almost 4 years ago

    Sheer genius! Where’s his Pulitzer?

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    A Common 'tator  almost 4 years ago

    That censor should be hanged

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    Breadboard  almost 4 years ago

    The real joke here is Rat doing the work of hanging a picture ! …. Croc Power !

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    Zoturdley Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Funny!

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    Troglodyte  almost 4 years ago

    Rat should’ve asked the censor: “How’s it hangin’?” :D

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    iggyman  almost 4 years ago

    Reminds me of a fellow I knew, Peter Dragon!!

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    Zebrastripes  almost 4 years ago

    Nothings worse than an elephant in the room not hung well!

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    Jeff0811  almost 4 years ago

    Not fair, Rat’s been framed.

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    tripwire45  almost 4 years ago

    Oh this operates on so many levels and I hope they’re all intentional.

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    diskus Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    What do comic censors think when they see themselves in a strip?

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    RichardMetropolis  almost 4 years ago

    Not good I bet

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    ArtyD2 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    What is grey and comes in quarts?

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    Reader  almost 4 years ago

    For the censor, the elephant is irrelephant.

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    rdav1248961 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.—Groucho Marx

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    Ellis97  almost 4 years ago

    It’s just an elephant.

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    Jeffin Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Don’t believe everything you trunk.

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    iggyman  almost 4 years ago

    Don’t tell, but he says “F-a-lot”!

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    jonesbeltone  almost 4 years ago

    I’ll let this one pass.

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    cornshell  almost 4 years ago

    Fun fact: The same pun was used in the Outro for Only Connect, Series 16, Episode 11.

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    Linguist  almost 4 years ago

    I’ve known a couple of Elephants who were well hung but not straight. No one paid attention to their politics!

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    DamnHappyChappy  almost 4 years ago

    Love it.

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    jel354  almost 4 years ago

    Less heavy-handed than an 800 pound gorilla.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  almost 4 years ago

    Actually better than usual.

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    Megamind  almost 4 years ago

    Earlier this month, Pastis said on twitter that the strips that would run this week were about an attempted presidential coup and were written a month in advance of January 6th. Given the circumstances, I’m not surprised the syndicate decided to pull them and run them “when things calm down.”

    https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/entertainment/pearls-before-swine-comic-strips-about-military-coup-pulled-from-newspape/

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The hung man was well hanged.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I think that guy is part of censoring the Disqus comments on the Comics Kingdom website

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    unfair.de  almost 4 years ago

    Nice, a classic Pastis play on words with triplicate punchline.

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    MartinPerry1  almost 4 years ago

    PIg should have used this obscure euphemism: Liver Disturber.

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    timinwsac Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    So it’s a well hung gay elephant?

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    willie_mctell  almost 4 years ago

    Gakk

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    Sue G  almost 4 years ago

    Rat and Pig have managed to score a trifecta. The comic censor would be unemployed if it weren’t for them. He should thank them.

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    skipper1992  almost 4 years ago

    In tenth grade, my American Lit class read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” I can still picture the teacher, George Hunt, becoming agitated, repeatedly. “No! Peyton Farquhar was not hung! He was hanged! Hung is something else entirely!”

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    gmu328  almost 4 years ago

    So we have potentially three puns/jokes in here. One is potentially politically incorrect, however a rarity – a triple play! Rare in baseball, as well in a Pastis comic.

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    the lost wizard  almost 4 years ago

    No mask Mr. Censor. I’ll be sending a letter of complaint to your department.

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    zeexenon  almost 4 years ago

    Rat and Pig should be jealous.

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    Darryl Heine  almost 4 years ago

    This week the Pearls Before Swine reruns are from 2018 due to the pulled storyline tied in to what happened on January 6, 2021.

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    dlaemmerhirt999  almost 4 years ago
    . . . aaaaaand here come the furries.
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    alexius23  almost 4 years ago

    It’s always fun to have the Censor pay a visit….

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    NWdryad  almost 4 years ago

    There’s a garage door installation company in my town called “Hung Well“. I can’t tell if it was intentional or not.

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    weatherford.joe Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Don’t mention it!

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    knight1192a  almost 4 years ago

    Slap the censor.

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    Pgalden1 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    love a pun…

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    John Jorgensen  almost 4 years ago

    Just this morning I hung a picture (Dali’s “Swans Reflecting Elephants” in fact) and I remembered this gag. Which is an amazing coincidence—but also means he’s used this joke before.

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    bobw2012  almost 4 years ago

    Had to magnify to 300% and it looks like the Comic Strip Censor might also be well hung.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    About 5 hours ago Mudd said,

    Please,Don’t call me Shirley. ;)

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    WilliamDoerfler  almost 4 years ago

    Beats me!

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    PBS1!  almost 4 years ago

    I don’t even want to know how that’s inappropriate.

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    Snolep  almost 4 years ago
    Why is the elephant’s right eye on its ear?
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    oakie817  almost 4 years ago

    most excellent

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    TIMH  almost 4 years ago

    Q: Why does and elephant have four feet?A: Because he would look pretty silly with only four inches.

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    Sisyphos  almost 4 years ago

    Pig has all the good lines today! Comic Strip Censor Guy is just his usual self, defeated by the PBS gang, and Rat is only the (level and) Straight Man.

    Go, Pig!

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    vjorgensen54  almost 4 years ago

    replace hung with endowed. get it now?

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Hey Cartoon Boy, Give me your take on the first panel. .I see it as a political statement, but other folk disagree. Give me the skinny.

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    Semolina Pilchard  almost 4 years ago

    Wouldn’t a horse have been even more appropriate than the elephant?

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    Kirbo  over 3 years ago

    rerun alert

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    Teddy Freaking Out  over 2 years ago

    Can you explain the joke

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