Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 15, 2015
April 14, 2015
April 16, 2015
Transcript:
Rat: I've started a beer delivery service where I don't have to use the roads.
Goat: How do you deliver it?
Rat: I use birds. But people don't seem to like it.
Goat: Why not?
Stork: Very special delivery, Bob.
Bob: Oh, God.
Put a picture of a beer can on the bag Rat, it’s called advertising ! What kind of beer is it that comes shaped like a ball ? I thought they did away with those plastic mini-kegs shaped like a ball…………………
I bet Pastis got this idea from Joe Stork in “Krazy Kat”. Joe would deliver babies, but I believe there were some strips where he was a part time bootlegger.
I loved it. Put physics aside, its a comic so we don’t worry about reality. Best new gag in awhile, it truly did make me laugh out loud. Great one Mr. Pastis. And even if he did steal the idea from KK, thats ok, great artists steal, mediocre artists copy.
cdgar about 9 years ago
Apparently Bob didn’t order the beer.
Templo S.U.D. about 9 years ago
Time for a new delivery plan or scrap the idea altogether.
LuvThemPluggers about 9 years ago
Drones, better… You don’t want to scare people to death with those stork bundles.
phylum about 9 years ago
better a stork than a shotgun…
juicebruce about 9 years ago
Put a picture of a beer can on the bag Rat, it’s called advertising ! What kind of beer is it that comes shaped like a ball ? I thought they did away with those plastic mini-kegs shaped like a ball…………………
Kaputnik about 9 years ago
I bet Pastis got this idea from Joe Stork in “Krazy Kat”. Joe would deliver babies, but I believe there were some strips where he was a part time bootlegger.
mjb515 about 9 years ago
Guard Duck cannot fly (at least not without a chopper). He is a broken duck.
But I would like to see him more!
Max Starman Jones about 9 years ago
My parents would never tell me where beer came from.
puddlesplatt about 9 years ago
A Stork can carry pound or so baby, but a gallon or two, no way Jose!
Sisyphos about 9 years ago
Rat’s set-up for this gag seems rather improbable, but Bob and the Stork play their parts well and carry it off….
Guilty Bystander about 9 years ago
And as we speak, Jeff Bezos is reading today’s strip and saying, “Hmmmm…birds ARE cheaper than drones…”
hdcanterbelle Premium Member about 9 years ago
I loved it. Put physics aside, its a comic so we don’t worry about reality. Best new gag in awhile, it truly did make me laugh out loud. Great one Mr. Pastis. And even if he did steal the idea from KK, thats ok, great artists steal, mediocre artists copy.
Thomas R. Williams about 9 years ago
During Prohibition G. Herriman had several strips featuring Joe. Stork making special deliveries of this nature.
pnmiq about 9 years ago
Beer has caused many stork deliveries, so why not storks delivering the beer?
Sherlock Watson about 9 years ago
Congratulations — it’s a Bud!
abbybookcase about 9 years ago
use geese. there’s too many anyway, might as well put them to work
Number Three about 9 years ago
Why do I find this so cute?
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John Allen Premium Member about 9 years ago
First come beerthen come lovethen comes Bob with a baby carriage
booyahwonie about 9 years ago
Rumor has it the stork brought me here
handimike about 9 years ago
Bird must be related to the Monte Python one that delivered Coconuts in the opening scene of “Holy Grail” (you have to watch to appreciate it!)