Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 08, 2013

A nickel a piece.

Actually a bit of better word choice would clear things up easily. “Crows have been killed.” “I’ve found crows with knives sticking out of them.” Even “Someone murdered these crows.”.Pig, the way you said it was the only way that would make things difficult. And yes, saying it that way sounds very much like a prank.

Video evidence would probably have been more helpful, Pig.

Can you blame it on the crocs?

But you tried, Pig. You tried. That’s all the jury is going to care about.

Probably all started at the crow bar.

Multiple blunt objects (baseball bats)? Multiple knives? Looks to me like this was an anti-crow hate crime with special heinous circumstances. What have you got yourself mixed up in now, Pig? —Watch your back, or your bacon could be in the fire!

It was a slaughter of crows…. appropriate for the comics, cos it’s the only heinous crime with laughter in it.

It was P.I. Staker.

Pshaw!The Punster strikes again..Chief O’Hara give me the Batphone.

What’s the term for a large amount of bad puns?

now we all get too “Eat Crow”

And there’s been a crash of rhinos on the highway.

People make up these “correct” terms for groups of animals just to mess with other people. Pastis gets that.

A Bamboozle of Wall Street Analysts

This strip usually gets a ‘Rash of Comments’.

Pig, alone, don’t make a sounder . . . ☻

It doesn’t take a sleuth (of bears) to find a list of animal collectives. There are a lot of such lists on the net, but this one is probably the most fun:

http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kennel/collectives.htm

So, go enjoy an exaltation (of larks) and report back here tomorrow

I can hear that officers voice with a Irish accent.Just waiting for “Ahh Look at the little baby, ain’t he cute.”And the cop is not accurate. I would know.No donuts. (heheheh)A murder of crows, hah, Pig why did you do it??

In one of the “Pearls Before Swine” treasuries, Stephan Pastis mentions he just thought of a stip involving a murder of crows and Pig.

“Comics should be comedy. This is sad.. "

It’s called “dark humor”, which Pastis didn’t invent but excels at. There are many examples of death being used as a subject for humor (for example, the death of Chuckles the Clown on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, or numerous sketches by Monty Python).

Si is a group of cops called a “Donut”?

Your eyes and the elephants’ have to bee keen, and you have to shoot fast and you have to hit clean

Dr. Seuss

No, the duck works in explosives.

This is truly the work of those dastardly magpies.

LOL LOL… I laughed at this one.

And you’re right there, Pig.

xxx

Wow, so much violence in the strips today. A lot of deaths.

Pig, you’re dealing with a real crow magnon here. Keep it simple. (Actually, they’re called a murder of crows because they mob and kill other birds, even the bigger raptors that eat them if they can get enough of them to get together to do it.)

It was done by a raven lunatic!

Pastis has gone batty

Pig needs to get more information. Perhaps the cows herd?

Magic Fan… huh? Chuck Norris?It was just something off the top of my head….If you play Scrabble and do cryptic crosswords you know that S + Laughter makes slaughter.

And No. Six …. OH! Good to know, cos I thought you had to spin your computer…Shaking takes up less room on the desk.

Actually learned something from Pastis! I knew about a gaggle of geese meaning 7 geese, but this is new. Perfect word.

heard on the news that a lot of cops are juicing on steroids. also, virgina booze cops arrested a college student, because she had bottled water. they say it was vodka. and, that cops are killing more dogs and using swat teams to make raids on misdemeanor offenses(gambling on a sports game at the local bar, poker games between friends at a private residence, a charity hold’em poker event at a vfw, raiding private clubs on the premise of underage drinking(even if the patrons are all over the age of 55), raiding unlicensed barbershops, etc…)

Rat was there. Baseball bats are his signature weapon.

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Who murdered the murder of crows?