Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 13, 2015

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    BE THIS GUY  over 8 years ago

    Calm down, Elvis.This should make you happy.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 8 years ago

    Stephan, you are truly the king.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 8 years ago
    You’re nothing but a hound dog, Stephan.
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    blunebottle  over 8 years ago

    I have to admit, that took some convoluted thinking.

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    Tirasmol  over 8 years ago

    Great, I’m going to have that stuck in my head all day.

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    jackhs  over 8 years ago

    A new low for Pastis.

    Well done, Sir

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    Phatts  over 8 years ago

    Ooooh boy, that one was hairy convoluted!

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    Fibbermcgee Premium Member over 8 years ago

    A pun and Elvis, What more could you ask for?

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    ozed  over 8 years ago

    Elvis has reentered the building.

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    Sisyphos  over 8 years ago

    Listen to the King, Cartoon-Boy Immolate yourself.

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    knight1192a  over 8 years ago

    Now that was funny. His puns have become too stale of late, throwing out so many. But that was actually good.

    When the blackbird in the spring, on the willow tree, Sat and rocked, I heard him sing, singing Aura LeaAura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.

    Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.

    In thy blush the rose was born, music when you spake,Through thine azure eye the morn, sparkling seemed to break.Aura Lea, Aura Lea, bird of crimson wing,Never song have sung to me, as in that sweet spring.

    Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.

    Aura Lea! The bird may flee, the willow’s golden hairSwing through winter fitfully, on the stormy air.Yet if thy blue eyes I see, gloom will soon depart;For to me, sweet Aura Lea is sunshine through the heart.

    Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.

    When the mistletoe was green, midst the winter’s snows,Sunshine in thy face was seen, kissing lips of rose.Aura Lea, Aura Lea, take my golden ring;Love and light return with thee, and swallows with the spring.

    Considering one of his hits was to the tune of Aura Lea, I just had to go with this song. Know I’ve seen a version with the lyrics ending about getting married in the spring.

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    Trilobyte Premium Member over 8 years ago

    …these are a “form,” almost like a haiku or something.

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    ACW1  over 8 years ago

    I LOVE the pun strips! And in case you somehow don’t get it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGJTaP6anOU

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Two scientists doing research on porpoises decided that they could make them live forever by feeding them a substance that occurred naturally in newly hatched seagulls. They collected a sack full of the birds at the beach and returned to their lab only to find an escaped lion, the patriarch of the pride at the local zoo, asleep on the doorstep. They bravely leaped over the lion with their sack of birds, intending to feed them to the porpoises in the tank in the lab, but they were seen by a policeman who arrested them for violating the Mann Act. Get it?

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    phylum  over 8 years ago

    now i hope that elvis reaaly is dead…

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    noahproblem  over 8 years ago

    It’s a good thing I don’t have a gun,or else the TV which I’m using for a monitor might be toast right now…

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 8 years ago

    That is some good, clean pun right there. Makes you wonder how long it took SP to think up the whole thing. Kudos.

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    William Weedman  over 8 years ago

    I read once he does puns he starts with the line and works backward, creating the set up.

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    Ian Mason Premium Member over 8 years ago

    The best one yet. I’ll be groaning all day.

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    mammamoonbeam  over 8 years ago

    Good thing I read this on an empty stomach or I would have barfed! One pun is bad enough. Two in one panel is too much. Groans…

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    Uhohcroc  over 8 years ago

    Ewwwe!

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    Kaputnik  over 8 years ago

    I got the “Hi can’t help” part, but had to look up the lyrics for the Weissman part to make sense. I guess I’d heard the song, but never really listened to the words.

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    Starbossa_1341  over 8 years ago

    An Elvis pun using one of my favorite songs of his on my birthday??? Thank you, Stephan!!!!

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    whiteheron  over 8 years ago

    I’ll have what Pastis is smoking….thank-you, thank-you very much!

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    tom  over 8 years ago

    THAT pun took a lot of setting up!

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    Rogers George Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Magnificent!

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    chris_o42  over 8 years ago

    It took a lot of thought to come up with that one!

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    LeePIII Premium Member over 8 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Another ‘shaggy dog’ story!

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    e.groves  over 8 years ago

    I almost figured it out before the last panel.

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    Gokie5  over 8 years ago

    Sterling, Stephan! That was the biggest windup I’ve ever seen!

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    LEOKEV  over 8 years ago

    Using Hi from “Hi and Lois” was a stretch. There are several famous people named Hyman or Hy that he could have used instead and pulled off the same pun.

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    dutchs  over 8 years ago

    A rival to “Dunk rye for me, Arch and Tina.”

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    Aficionado  over 8 years ago

    I agree that this is a new low for SP in the convolution of puns.

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    Cary Rodda Premium Member over 8 years ago

    LOVE IT! The more convoluted, the better!

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    sarah413 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    @sisyphos. It would take too long for Pastis to immolate. Look how long it took Brunhilde to go at the end of Gotterdammerung and she was going to The Gods. Pastis is not :)

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    Al Nala  over 8 years ago

    Now we know what the Gordian Knot sounds like.

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    dre7861  over 8 years ago

    That has to be the longest pun I’ve ever seen – Take a bow, Cartoon Boy!

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    lotsalaffs Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Bravo!

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    pshapley Premium Member over 8 years ago

    That one was so good Rat didn’t try to kill him for it.

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    Wally Cup Of Joe  over 8 years ago

    Pastis has left the building!

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    Godfreydaniel  over 8 years ago

    The pun of the century! (Of course, the century is young yet……..)

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    Kilrwat Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Stephen must have indulged in some of Zonker’s weed.

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    NWdryad  over 8 years ago

    You have to give Pastis credit, he must have worked really hard on that one.

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    A_NY_Outlaw  over 8 years ago

    Elvis has NOT left the building. Sadly for Pearls fans.

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    paullp Premium Member over 8 years ago

    After working so hard to come up with this bit of brilliance (and I mean that sincerely, I love his shaggy dog stories), no wondering he’s seeing the ghost of Elvis. Or is Elvis still alive in the cartoon universe that Pastis lets us peer into once a day?

    I am now inspired to pick a random song title or popular expression and try to build a shaggy dog story around it, just to see how challenging it is.

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex) Premium Member over 8 years ago

    In a skeery turn of coincidence — as I read this in my paper this morning, Kissing Cousins was airing on TCM.

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    Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Elvis is never wrong.

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    Solaricious Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I just realized that this is Stephan’s version of “The Aristocrats” – just how far out there will he go to make a bad pun?

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    Number Three  over 8 years ago

    My Mum is a huge fan of Elvis.

    My Dad is not. He only likes the one song which is “Always On My Mind”

    xxx

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    tazz555  over 8 years ago

    I knew it was a good idea to sharpen my pitchfork. and they said I was crazy…now where is my torch

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    Miss Buttinsky Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Keep’em coming, sad little man. Don’t listen to the villagers with their pitchforks and torches.

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    Random Lurker Premium Member over 8 years ago

    slow clap

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    Kind&Kinder  over 8 years ago

    One of the most tortured language constructions I’ve ever seen. Glorious!

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    J. Krysl  over 8 years ago

    There MUST be a word for the feeling one has while exhibiting a straight mouth and closed eyes, shaking one’s head, and emitting a sound like “MMMMHHH.” Whatever that word is, today’s strip trips its trigger better than any pun I’ve experienced in my past. Amazing.

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    VAWhetsel  over 8 years ago

    Wow! That was a lot of work setting it up. Nicely done.

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    finnygirl Premium Member over 8 years ago

    That obviously took a lot of thinking, and was worth it! I loved it! :-D

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    Stocky One  over 8 years ago

    Maybe, Elvis, but brilliant

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    claire de la lune.  over 8 years ago

    My brain…

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    K M  over 8 years ago

    He actually sits there and thinks up this crap…(smh)

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Yep. They were arrested for transporting young gulls across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.

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    barkingcows Premium Member over 8 years ago

    That’s a LOOOOOOOOOG way to go for a bad pun. But I do it over and over and over again. I think I need therapy.

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    johngregor Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I found the over-the-top extravagant and convoluted setup for this joke to be even funnier than the punchline.

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    tbritt99  over 8 years ago

    That one took some work!

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    bmonk  over 8 years ago

    [sigh]

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    galtomasum  over 8 years ago

    clap

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    ValancyCarmody  over 8 years ago

    He’s so cute, I just loooove him!

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    GarfieldJune19  about 8 years ago

    What does the first part say? I know the “I can’t help falling in love with you” part. The “Russian” part means, “rush in” (I think). But what about the first part?

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    ACW1  almost 6 years ago

    At least his second Elvis pun (http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2015/9/13).

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    Themanofoor54  almost 3 years ago

    i love cant help falling in love with you

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    comicalstart  over 2 years ago

    Episode 177

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