Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 11, 2016

Not the fat one, he’ll eat all the profits!

So what can I get at a sex shop?

I’m the same way about garage sales…

Imagine these zany zoo critters going to a flea market.

Zaphod: Will you please tell us where you are?Marvin the Paranoid Android: I’m in the car park.Zaphod: What are you doing in the car park?Marvin: Parking cars. What else does one do in a car park?Zaphod: Okay! Okay! Hey, Marvin’s down in the car park!Arthur: What is he doing in the car park?Zaphod: Parking cars, what else, dumdum! .— Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

PackratJohn….Yeah, I was going to say they need to find a garage sale, so they can buy someplace to keep their farmers.

Every time I pass a sign that says “Yard Sale”, I want to walk up and say “I’d like a yard of this, and a couple of yards of that”.

By the way, speaking of movies (as we were over the last few days), I always watch the credits. Some of them are well worth it, like the end credits to Mel Brooks movie: “To Be Or Not To Be”.

Next up: a flea market.

Don’t go to the Baby Sale!

I would think that a farmers market sells produce. But most of them just sell prepared food and other stuff.

Rat and Goat are both in full character, while Pig is On the Fringe, being Pig as only he can. And, while I sympathize with Goat (hear me roar, Cartoon-Boy!), I have to admit that Rat’s logic is impeccable….

I never did understand the SLOW CHILDREN sign on the street in front of my house when I was growing up.

Revised: I never did understand the SLOW CHILDREN sign on the street in front of my house when I was growing up…..still don’t.

It’s saying cars need to be slow, so they don’t hit children.

Don’t buy McDonald…he’s too old.

They look like the “Stepford Farmers.”

aw, but Goat then you wouldn’t exist

The strip and resulting comments were really apropos today: Corny!

May I suggest that the Pearls cast look here here, first ? http://www.gocomics.com/us-acres

So why would pig want the one with the pitch fork…..uh oh better run Stephan!

I only buy Amish at the farmer’s market… they never complain about the unheated doghouse I stick them in.

(I’ll be leaving now…)

I hope Pig remembers to buy some farmers’ insurance.

When we see a YARD SALE sign, we immediately start discussing where we could put that yard if we could afford it.

SLOW CHILDREN must embarrass those, poor, slow children.

I arrived at a garage sale with a crane and a flatbed semi and all they wanted to sell were old dishes and kiddy clothes. Sheesh! Ya can’t believe what ya read nowadays.

I do get the joke and I do find it funny, but it does illustrate urban bias and ignorance. Very few farmers wear straw hat and bib overalls. And close to half of all farmers are women.

Watch those apostrophes. If you want to buy fresh vegetables, go to a farmer’s market.

@Albertaguy. You do realize we’re dealing with a mostlyAmerican audience here don’t you?

Alpha omega… Not sure what that’s supposed to mean…But you and Alberta guy do know this is a comic strip, right? American farmers don’t all wear bib overalls… Prisoners don’t wear black and white striped pajamas.Lady animals don’t always wear bows in their hair… or towering wigs like Larry’s wife, Patty.

But all those conventions are old fashioned comic strip character identifiers, not meant to portray any sort of reality… designed to provoke a chuckle, not social analysis… In fact, Pastis lives in the same N CA city I do, in a very agricultural area… surrounded by dairies, vineyards, and small farms and ranches.You can find me standing at a farmer’s market one night a week in summer, helping sell fresh vegetables. We have tons of real, working farmers …

I suppose that’s why we can sell them off like that.

Is one of the farmers Old McDonald by any chance?xxx

Reminds me of the time I bought a metre stick. Turns out it was about 3 inches short. I guess that’s ’cause i bought at a yard sale!

Oh ma gosh terrible pun doe

If they sell shoes at a shoe store, and toys at a toy store, what exactly do they sell at a Christian store?

@SusanSunshine. It was a good natured jab but I stand corrected anyway.I always enjoy your comments by the way.

I swear – this is the only strip that makes me howl out loud!

Very punny. Very punny.

If this is a veiled criticism that Lynda Hopkins is bought and paid for by development interests, you’re much more sophisticated than I thought…

Avoid flea markets