Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 03, 2012

Hilarious!! Great pun!!

And then the rat was out, out of his mind,out.

Now, that’s low, even for Rat.

I’m not sure I understand…

This is setting a dangerous precedent. Next thing we know, major motion pictures will spend ten minutes musing on whether or not their friend Oscar will ever come by.

Rat your a smart a&& little peice of hair ball…. Here KItty Kitty Kitty.

Rat rubs it in. Pastis rubs him out. [Okay, just wishful thinking. You know—like Pastis hoping to win the Reuben.]

I hope that deli doesn’t order its cheeses from the Monty Python cheese shop.

Stop begging, Pastis. It’s undignified.

I like the idea of winged Oscars flying out of @#&!!’s rear end…

Wonder what the shortage was..sour kraut?

No Reuben? Again?

Rat still p.o.’d about Siberia?

ow, nice one rat

nice one, rat

heh.

Winged ponies? What about flying blue monkeys? ;)

Try Arby’s. I’ve been seeing a lot of commercials for their new Reuben sandwich recently.

this is cruel!

Next, he can call the museum. “Do you have any Rubens?… Can my friend have one? No? Okay?”

No Ray-Bans and no rub-ons, either.

Little known fact about her. When you hit the mute button, she becomes HOT!

?

“Off topic here, but you guys seem to go in for fey.”

The only fey I go in for is Tina Fey.

A lot of women become better looking when they shut their mouth.

I know! I know! I have been a Very Bad Boy.

HMMM, tom Richmond has his blog listed through NCS.… i bet that’s a good place to find out info on my favorite artist. that is if my favorite artist had his blog listed there. stuff like that might influence my vote.

Steph, if Rat wants to rub it in, just get out the eraser and rub him out.

Ha! It took me about 5-10 minutes of reading and re-reading and I couldn’t get it. I came here; saw only lightningsnowstorm’s comment about a pun; I went back and looked again; and I when I got what Rat was doing, the feeling of satisfaction was like a flood through my being. Ooo, that was good.

I think that in the Emmys, you are allowed to nominate yourself. I may be wrong.

Perhaps if pigs fly instead?Anyway nice double entendre.@somebody back there – Reubens have been at Arby’s for years. Not too bad on the swirl bread.

Calm down, Rat.

LOL xxx

Why is Pastis going on about not getting a Reuben? More than anything, it sounds like he’s trying to bring attention to himself about how ‘unworthy’ he is for one. It was old the first day. Drop it already.

Maybe there should be a reuben for puns… Nah. Cheesy idea.

Stephan is not smoking again today. Was there some new law or syndicate rule against showing cigarettes in strips? Imagine Stephan crushing a cigarette out on Rat’s head just at moments like this.

On another point, I really look forward to Stephan’s contribution to Cul de Sac.

Mr. Pastis, I think you are spending too much time on this Rueben business. I started off thinking you should win but now I’m to the point of hoping you don’t get it.

Awesome.

XD

I think the toon is funny! :D

…. I was already hungry… and now…. I want a Reuben….. =P

Doesn’t a Reuben come with pickles?

Maybe he should have gone for a Dagwood instead…Oh wait, I think Stephan’s still banned from Blondie.

Now I really really want a reuben.

I love his screwing with the Reuben Awards, I’ve been reading Cul de Sac since I heard they won this years Reuben. I take this cartoon over that one anytime or place. I’ll give Cul a couple of weeks but I don’t see it as deserving over a lot of other cartoons on this site.

poor steph…can’t even BUY a reuben…

the funny thing about pearls before swine is that stephan puts himself in his own comic