Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 21, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 2 years ago

    Millicent Mosquito will call this FAKE NEWS in a nanosecond!

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    BasilBruce  over 2 years ago

    It wasn’t easy to get that title—in fact, it was murder!

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    DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Nice thought, Zebra, but not what Hippo has in mind.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 2 years ago

    Keep up the good work, Holly.

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    ronaldspence  over 2 years ago

    The new spokesmodel for the children’s game “Hungry Hungry Hippos “

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    feverjr Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I’m waiting for Hippo Week on the Discovery Channel…..

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Fake news. Human race is #1.

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    RLG Premium Member over 2 years ago

    And we mean to go on and on and on and on…..

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    AndreasMartin  over 2 years ago

    And yet no one boasts hunting hippos. They have good PR.

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    Imagine  over 2 years ago

    But humans kill more animals than any other animal does. Sadly, we will probably be number one for a long time.

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 2 years ago

    Its hip to be a hippo, but rhino he’s to fat to fly, oh.

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    Troglodyte  over 2 years ago

    Fat chance that campaign has got of succeeding!

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Who’s going to argue with him?

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    Gent  over 2 years ago

    As if hippos walk into towns and kill people. What exactly was all those peoples doing near hippos when they gots killed?

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    Gent  over 2 years ago

    But wouldn’t zeeba concerned more abouts wheech animal kill more zeebas? Is it crocs? Or is it hippoos?

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    figuratively speaking  over 2 years ago

    When you’ve got it, flaunt it!

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    Purple People Eater  over 2 years ago

    Hippos are the sixth most deadly mammal according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Anyone want to guess which mammal is the deadliest before you check the list?

    https://www.britannica.com/list/9-of-the-worlds-deadliest-mammals

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    Chithing Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Holly apparently subscribes to the Homer Simpson school of superlatives.

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    mjb515  over 2 years ago

    But this is a world where animals who act like people are slaughtered for food, or do only humans still count as people in context?

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    iggyman  over 2 years ago

    How about “Miley Virus”? !

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    jimchronister2016  over 2 years ago

    Except! For People!

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    jimchronister2016  over 2 years ago

    No Hippo, people animals get first place for that distinction. And that’s just for person on person attacks. if you include motor vehicles, it goes up by 1000000000’s. add military weapons, it goes up by Billions of percentile.

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    Ellis97  over 2 years ago

    Hippos are some of the fiercest mammals alive. They could take down a crocodile in one battle.

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    Stocky One  over 2 years ago

    I think Pearls Before Swine has gotten a new character!

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    Zebrastripes  over 2 years ago

    ZEEBA! SO cute!

    Holly is first cousin to Henrietta Hippo…you know, the Hippo with the TUTU and ballet slippers?

    Holly is a protesting rebel, however, or so the story goes…..whereas Henrietta, went into fine arts and became a Ballet sensation, the world over.

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    Jeffin Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Killer joke today, Steph.

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    Goat from PBS  over 2 years ago

    The millions of mosquitos in the world would say that this bites. I’m just glad that Zebra is getting more time in this strip.

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    DEEZ NUTS  over 2 years ago

    I like how stephan pastis made holly hippo resemble total from timmy failure

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    198.23.5.11  over 2 years ago

    Hippos are cute.

    But I never met a mosquito I didn’t want to brutally murder and then brag about it.

    One other thing—-in the old days I would see pygmy hippos exhibited in small carnivalsunder cramped conditions.They were advertised as “blood sweating hippos”.Theywere nothing of the kind.So why??

    And about the immortality thing—-Sophia Loren was 87 yesterday.Doesn’t remotelylook it.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Everybody sing along: “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas…”

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    Linguist  over 2 years ago

    We don’t have a hippo problem in South America … uh … except in Colombia, where drug-lord Pablo Escobar imported them for one of his ranches. He’s dead, they bred, enough said!

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    CoffeeLvr  over 2 years ago

    Ah, the bloody red hand.

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    hariseldon59  over 2 years ago

    I’m reminded of this one.

    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2003/08/22

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    schaefer jim  over 2 years ago

    Holly is my favorite killer hippo. Make her a strip favorites, along with the zebras and alligators.

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    raybarb44  over 2 years ago

    He’s trying to keep his record…

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    Nobody_Important  over 2 years ago

    My dedication to the show The Most Extreme compels me to share with Holly (with love and kindness) that Hippopotamuses were not on the list of most extreme killers, however they do rank #2 on the list of bitters!

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    Grover St. Clair  over 2 years ago

    And they make great Christmas gifts: https://youtu.be/vsvOrtcrA5c

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    N8  over 2 years ago

    Comic strip cencor police should be here any second

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    Sisyphos  over 2 years ago

    Why am I suspecting that Holly Hippo is not a jolly hippo and that approaching her booth would not be my Number 1 move?

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    Jason Scarborough  over 2 years ago

    Holly seems more like one of Rat’s friends than Pig’s

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    pontiac59  over 2 years ago

    I used to know someone named Holly that I sure wish I could show this to

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    Janet Davis Premium Member over 2 years ago

    This is obviously a different hippo from the one in March of 2009.

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