Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 13, 2015
Transcript:
Rat: Neighbor Bob and his wife have gotten a goose. They say it's helped with their relationship. Goat: How so? Rat: When Bob is nice to the goose, his wife feels closer to him, and as a result, she's more often and frank with him. Goat: So what's good for the goose is good for the candor. Rat: You're destroying our morale.
BE THIS GUY almost 9 years ago
I didn’t know there was any morale to be destroyed.
Kali39 almost 9 years ago
Actually, this one’s kind of pathetic, Cartoon Boy. You are just going to have to work harder if you’re going to succeed in destroying everyone’s morale…
knight1192a almost 9 years ago
I think Rat is wrong. Neighbor bob and his wife didn’t get a goose, he goosed his wife.
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member almost 9 years ago
OK, I was thinking this was heading to something about giving her a goose, but that might have been too much for the comics censor.
Pointspread almost 9 years ago
I’m down with goose jokes.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I’ll bet Pastis kills at parties. Seriously, I think people die.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Pointspread…yeah, I don’t mind getting in a few barbs, myself…. even if they’re pointless.
HeckleMeElmo almost 9 years ago
I would have advised rat not to kill the goose that laid the golden egg; except Pastis isn’t a goose, and gold doesn’t smell like that.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Liverlips…nah…. just the moron…:)
Plumbob Wilson almost 9 years ago
This one didn’t end up where I thought it was going.
Egrayjames almost 9 years ago
So Frank’s frankness has led to candid candor. Now if Frank’s wife’s name is Candy, then Candy’s goose can claim creating calming creature comforts.You gotta love Candy.
uniquename almost 9 years ago
Eider know about these puns…
cdward almost 9 years ago
It’s all part of the Pastis plot to pun people pitilessly into prostration.
cdgar almost 9 years ago
I hope Pastis gets his goose in the end.
gmu328 almost 9 years ago
cartoon boy slipped a lot this time … and that is saying a lot as my motto has been the lousier the pun the better … this is not up to par …
wvrr almost 9 years ago
Nothing to do with the wordplay but just curious as I’ve seen this before on Pearls. Is saying ‘gotten’ a local thing? The rest of the English speaking world would say ‘Bob and his wife have got a goose’ if they are suggesting they have had one for some time and they may say ‘Bob and his wife have now (or just) got a goose’ if they mean to suggest it was recently purchased. Gotten?
kaffekup almost 9 years ago
Past participle in this part of the “English” speaking world:He gotHe had gotten.
dre7861 almost 9 years ago
Who’s Frank? And maybe he’s the problem in Neighbor Bob’s marriage. Just saying.
Artistinfo almost 9 years ago
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NWdryad almost 9 years ago
I saw this coming in the first panel….
mr_sherman Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Bob and Frank?
Sherlock Watson almost 9 years ago
If I were making a goose joke, it would be about a man who can’t keep his hands off a woman because he likes the way she looks; what’s good for a gander is good for a goose.
Number Three almost 9 years ago
“And the morale of this comic strip is…”
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Kind&Kinder almost 9 years ago
I guess what it comes down to is this strip’s humor comes to us like puns through a goose. Keep it up, Steph!
Sisyphos almost 9 years ago
If no one else dare say it, I will. Neighbor Bob and his wife are weird!I feel sorry for poor Goat, having to mouth such sub-standard dialogue.Cartoon-Boy, if you don’t straighten out and fly right, your goose is cooked!
abbybookcase almost 9 years ago
as we used to sing at camp “tiptoe through the ducky-doo, tiptoe…” i know, but somehow, singing the same bit with goose never caught on, even if it was more accurate
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Thats terrible!Do it again!
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Ooh, that’s good word play.
Barbara McKibben almost 9 years ago
stephan you are brilliant!!!
NeilCopeland about 5 years ago
Can you do it with “SAUCE for the goose/gander”?