Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip, October 31, 2011 on GoComics.com

ODDBALL said, over 1 year ago

@#&%$ Right!

GI_CRANDELL said, over 1 year ago

Here is one I get quoted on occasionally…Back story my wife had some middle school girls over from her class and I was building a fire for them. I ended up getting hurt and yelled, “Butt cheek freaking peanut” instead of cursing, it was pretty satisfying and it got a good laugh later on.

margueritem said, over 1 year ago

Rat has a good point, but on the other hand, I like GI_CRANDELL’s way of handling a situation.

fatjimi said, over 1 year ago

Is Rat’s cup red? Or is there that much lipstick on his white
cup?

Keno21 said, over 1 year ago

“Butt cheek freaking peanut”??? Oh my, I feel faint! I’m going back to Family f&%$(*g Circus.

thegrift said, over 1 year ago

working retail requires the ability to stifle my *&%@#ing cursing. I often substitute gibberish when said in the same tone as a cussowrd. Butt cheek freakin peanut may very well be my new phrase.

Arye Uygur said, over 1 year ago

Robert Louis Stevenson was able to have his Treasure Island characters express themselves without using four letter words – or type symbols.

dbig 1oohh said, over 1 year ago

Who give a flock about all that blue spit?

Rodney said, over 1 year ago

I smacked my thumb with a hammer just as my dear old Grandma walked in the room. I shouted “Son of Hibachi!” She said “WHAT did you say???” So I repeated it. I then had to explain it’s a small charcoal grill. She asked “So what’s that got to do with hitting your thumb?”. I replied, so what did you WANT me to yell? “Spring is Here!”???

Sisyphos said, over 1 year ago

Goat is the voice of sanity, Rat is the voice of profanity. But the real question is, whence came the lipstick on Rat’s mug?

x_Tech said, over 1 year ago

Kind of like when your car breaks down, does screaming “YOU CUTE KITTY CAT, YOU SAINTED CUDDLY GRANDMOTHER…” relieve the frustration? And “Water your Geraniums” doesn’t have emotional charge of “P!$$ Off”. Then again “Go crossbreed your Ophrys apifera” or “Jo Mommas’ a Ophrys” is likely to get you killed even if they don’t understand the reference, and if they do…

bamboodan said, over 1 year ago

Raised my 2 sons to try avoiding profanity by saying “Oh my Goodness!” If you practice it when it isn’t so … critical … it kinda grows on you. They both visited when they were in their twenties, helped me out working on the boat. Someone slipped a line and a boom came crashing on my thumb, pretty much putting it in 2 dimensions. I yelled Oh My Goodness – by that time out of reflex – so loud they could hear me across the harbor. My thumb was split open like a ripe casaba melon, yet we were all laughing so hard I thought I’d wet myself. By the time we got in the ER the medicos assumed my tears were from the pain .. until we told ‘em. I think some of the other ER patients may have been a bit disturbed by all the laughter from our corner. Maybe they just wanted some of the painkiller I was getting. Now whenever I say Oh My Goodness my 6 yr old daughter can’t understand why I’m laughing so hard. The Mrs says I’m confusing my daughter. Oh well. Can’t win. Maybe I should teach her to swear like a sailor instead?

kreole said, over 1 year ago

@Rodney

RODNEY….i like your “Son of a grill”. must remember that! (Hibachi)