Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 19, 2023

Goat has to find other people with to converse.

However, neither he nor Pig has any class.

The principal is your pal, too bad Goat didn’t write the question out for you Pig…

pigs principles to live by are," love me" and," more cheese"

Yes, spelling IS important!

Is Pig"s principal is gathering interest? I wouldn’t bank on it.

That is the princiPAL.

my responses are limited, you must ask the right questions

When my parents moved into town, the principal from when I was in elementary school became their neighbor.

High school Principal eh. Big deal Pig. Me is has college Professor near by.

This is not all Pig’s fault. Even though Goat didn’t mean it the way Pig took it, by the sound of goat’s question, Pig’s answer really does (or at least can) make sense.

“Never complicate your life unnecessarily.”

Pig didn’t notice that Goat said “principles” and not “principals.” You would think that he would have seen that in the cartoon balloon.

I think Pig makes conversation much more interesting and fun. Who wants conventional conversation?

Just yesterday, some “reporter” used the wrong form of the word in a news story about teachers leaving the profession. I hope she hired one.

Pig has a point! Goat should have said not Principals!

Gotta love Pig’s logic!

Goat! Don’t ask Fat that question. You’ll like that answer even less.

I have a principle I live by. When someone tries to engage me into wasting my time on a meaningless “pretending-to-be transcendental” conversation, I give ridiculous answers to make the conversation difficult :D

Homophones can be so difficult when trying to converse.

Now give Pig a punctuation test. Ask him if he knows the difference between “teacher’s pet” and “teachers pet”.

That would be a principal, not a principle.

Some sour apples nit picking ninny will whine about using the same image for all three panels and simply changing the conversation bubbles in 3… 2…

The Count knew a guy who was married to one of those (female) and in the divorce proceedings found out she had none at all. Tru Dat ;)

PIG lives in LaLa land, so no use in talking to him!

Yes, one is to always say, “Principles by which I live.”

Ohh, groan…

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.” – Groucho Marx

I need smarter friends… or to hang out with Zebra more. I did that a lot in the past, but recently, not so much.

I lived in a small town once where our principal had a farm in the next county. Would’ve been hard to live by him.

Like many of the people who leave comments on these pages.

Ted Baxter heard it from a White Horse Souse

When I was in high school in a snow-belt region, the Superintendent of schools lived next door. The boys in my class were always volunteering me to shovel more snow on his driveway so he would cancel school!

LMAO! Great strip!

Do politicians in Washington have principols?

Ahh, the old principle versus principal distinction. . . .

I tried to imagine a conversation with Pastis and my mind….

What if the principal is unprincipled?

How do you not know that by now Goat?

Our spoken language must include a spell checker. Maybe AI will accomplish this.

Mine are:

1. It’s a very poor truth that has only one set of clothes.

2. It isn’t that simple.

3. TANSTAAFL.

Remember, the Principal is your PAL…

The principal is your pal.

Go Pig!

Pig: not the crispiest bacon on the plate.

I guess since pig couldn’t read goat’s balloon, his answer kinda makes sense…sorta…

Pig, it’s “principal”, because he’s your pal… in case no one has already said that.

Another Pastis trademark.

This was terrible. But I laughed and LIKEd it anyway.

Pore spelling.

Old principals never die they just lose their faculties. But then, old teachers never die, they just lose their principles!

Today’s artwork stunning in its subtle variety.

Ambiguity is inevitable when Pig doesn’t bother to read the speech balloons….

it took you this long to figure that out.

Oh, to have a friend like Pig.

Unfortunately, this gag will fly completely over the heads of the illiterates who don’t know when to use “principal” and when to use “principle.”

Is his name Charles, by chance?

I’d do it on purpose if I had to spend time talking to Goat