Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 14, 2011
Transcript:
Club President: Larry, the Kids Club Treehouse has voted to kick you out of the group... Please turn in your hat. Larry the Croc: Ha! Me keeck YOU out! Me geet frends help me een beeg coup! Timmy: Larry, you're mistakenly pronouncing the 'p' in 'coup.' The 'P' is silent. So when you say it your way, it has a whole different meaning. Larry the Croc: Ha! Whuh da heck you know, meester inteelecktual! Crocodile 1: How dis help Larry?
fuzzpunch almost 13 years ago
Now he can throw eggs at the people he hates.
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
L’il Timmy is supremely obnoxious. (I wonder how much it would take to hire L’il Guard Duck to terminate him with extreme prejudice?) How crocs move “coup” when dey inside? Will the Kids Club charge Larry for the damage to his vice-pressydential hat? —Politics is SO complicated!
Edcole1961 almost 13 years ago
Now they can chicken out.
praisetherat almost 13 years ago
Larry’s hat still has holes, Duck’s bullets have a lasting mark!
x_Tech almost 13 years ago
@glenardis from yesterdayDry up, blow away. Reconsider your thought.Oh, and, that should be “you’re” not “your”.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Bob and Bob are a couple of dumb clucks.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 13 years ago
X_tech — I don’t understand either. The site is free; the strips are a gift, and there’s no coercion. Why would someone willingly read a comic, then come to its forum, which I consider to be just like walking into the cartoonist’s art gallery, just to write mean-spirited critiques and even diatribes about the perceived faults of the strip. It’s rude and unnecessary, Why spoil other people’s enjoyment? Yesterday’s “Agnes” forum was an even more horrid example.
zero almost 13 years ago
There’s a forum?
inshadowz almost 13 years ago
@susansunshine: Alas, there is no shortage of people who consider such activities to be not just perfectly normal, but even praiseworthy.
tribalfusion009 almost 13 years ago
desperado
mjb515 almost 13 years ago
Guard Duck has already rendered his opinion on the treehouse political situation. It did not go well for Larry.
crobinson019 almost 13 years ago
I guess Larry shouldn’t be Counting Coup yet…
anna.i.bykova almost 13 years ago
Who’s the other croc??
mac47 almost 13 years ago
To be continued…
hariseldon59 almost 13 years ago
Is that Larry’s little deuce coup(e)?
Rat_Think almost 13 years ago
I wonder if Stephen knows that there is a defensive play in Contract Bridge called a ‘Crocodile Coup’. This is where the first defensive partner plays a winning card to take the trick, only to have the second defensive partner override taking the trick by optionally playing a higher card – so that the second partner then controls the lead card of the next & potentially subsequent tricks. Usually a king is played on top of a queen. Sometimes the person playing the queen feels like Larry.
Potrzebie almost 13 years ago
What about Mr. Fluffy? He is a dictator’s cat after all!!!
GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I should hope that Larry now understands the difference.
foxlover43 almost 13 years ago
I’m with Susan, my mom said if you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all. Glad to see all of you comics.com people here.
Digital Frog almost 13 years ago
Nice one hariseldon59
Time for Larry to try and recoop his losses…
billy1rules almost 13 years ago
I hope the chickens are alright! well and Larry
billy1rules almost 13 years ago
Are the chickens alright??? o and larry!
philphan25 almost 13 years ago
Larry is all couped up.
egarkis almost 13 years ago
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollkllllller
bmonk almost 13 years ago
Larry’s friends not so inteelectual as heem: they not find beeg coop—they in leetle coop. Soon they be feeling cooped up.
hariseldon59 almost 13 years ago
Larry’s friends are a couple of dumb clucks.
dante.deangelo almost 13 years ago
the bullet holes still in the hat is a nice touch
glenardis almost 13 years ago
susiesunshine et.al.You are correct, and I shall dry up and blow away but just a couple of thoughts before i go.
I enjoyed Pearls way back when, both in the paper and at comics.com. Pastis was great…awesome display of “humour of the absurd”.
now…mostly rat doing really bad puns. the alligators, pig, goat are repeating themselves which is ok if it is new to you but it isn’t new to the strip.
critique is different from criticize. the cartoonist is paid well for his “gallery”. it is hardly private when it appears both on line and in print.
i still think pastis has talent. i still think he needs to take a break. recharge his batteries before he becomes a “family circus” clone (his worst nightmare in case you weren’t aware).
dilbert/doonesbury/nonsequitor rock
Firebird67 almost 13 years ago
I remember that the crocs do love their buckets o’ KFC, but I suspect they never made the connection between that and actual live chickens. Another lost opportunity for the dimwits.
burleigh2 almost 13 years ago
Ah, Pastis… a grammar or spelling lesson in so many of your comics. I don’t know if it’s refreshing to teach kids things while they’re being entertained or if it’s sad that you stooped to this level of word play… but it’s funny none the less. ;-)
An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove almost 13 years ago
does pastis ever post here? I have an idea for him.
memo.from.daddy.warbucks almost 13 years ago
gee …. right out of todays headlines
Firebird67 almost 13 years ago
Pastis needs a break? Hardly. I’ve been reading Pearls since it debuted in the Wash Post (I think its first newspaper) and this Larry/kiddie club story arc has been absolutely delightful. I did not see the “coup” coming. Great work.
ahamel13 almost 13 years ago
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mjb515 almost 13 years ago
This strip is a paradox. The only way Larry would pronounce “coup” as “coop” is if he learned about the word by reading it instead of hearing it. That implies Larry reads, and that’s just impossible!
Sherlock Watson almost 13 years ago
This is why “intellectual” is not an insult.
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Looks like the crocs will have to start from scratch.
NJ Lyon over 12 years ago
Larry and Bob are both predators, and if I remember Pearls correctly, they are both hungry because they continually fail to catch the ever-elusive zeeba neighba. If they had access to the chickens, why didn’t they eat them? Are they that stupid?