Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 30, 2018

Make sure the hand is Way Up High.

It’s “lice are”, Rat, not “lice is”.

A happy little bonus?

How’s that, Rat? Irritating?

Oh Rat, you had to use incorrect grammar and louse up a good joke.

Better ending: Rat with a baseball bat saying “Ding dong, the cartoonist is dead.”

Keep up the good work, Cartoon Boy,Rat is just a nit-picker…

Actually. I think Stephan is correct. Some nouns are irregular, for example, “This is a bacterium, a single celled creature that has the ability to move on its own and thus is considered to be in the animal kingdom rather than a plant. This specimen was taken from this particular colony of bacteria in the Petri dish. Bacteria (as a collective category) is the cause of many diseases and illnesses due to unsafe food handling procedures”. Bacterium is singular. The first use of bacteria is a modifier (modifying the ‘colony’, indicating the colony is made of lots of individual “bacteriums” (as opposed to some bacteria, some viruses, a few strings of spaghetti, etc.). In the next sentence bacteria (a plural term) modified the direct object “colony”. In other words, this one bacterium was taken from a group of many individual bacteriums.

Do we get the flying monkeys tomorrow?

Might have been best for Rat to ignore the little man behind the pencil.

May the power of the Croc be with you………..watch for the Lions and Tigers and Bears………….oh my !

Bo is now thinking that there’s no place like home.

“What are you doing Bo, and what’s that you’ve just bought?”

“I’m painting a horseback rider but I don’t know where to put his left hand. I just bought a kitchen scale but I don’t know which food item to test it with.”

“Somewhere over the rein, Bo.

“Weigh a pie.”

I would be more concerned with why the rider is wearing ruby slippers.

Maybe Rat should have forced Stephen to wear a sign “If I only had a brain.”

“Auntie Em, Auntie Em, it’s a Punster, Auntie Em!!”

I should’ve seen a pun coming when Pastis decided to add a random character in the strip

Suddenly I feel really itchy!

Pastis: Please take some time off (they can do re-runs here) and go to a pun-rehab clinic before it is too late.

Keep on punning!

Never have liked puns, but you’re still ok, Pastis. Keep knittin’ & pearlin’

No one wants to mention that the word is, so far as I know, not “rein”, but “reins”?

actually , this was one of the better word plays, it was so simple and not convoluted like the others

Some most excellent word play here today! You guys are great! :>)

Doink!

Your mobile preview of the comic is center aligned, which means it should the joke by revealing the punchline first. Please fix.

Stephan’s so cute, I just love him

Frankly, my dear, I prefer Bo Derek.

Why are you scratching your head, Cartoon-Boy?

And just think: Pastis gets PAID to write/draw this stuff/these puns … day after day, week after week, and so on.

Keep it up, Stephan.

“way up high”