Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 02, 2018

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    BE THIS GUY  about 6 years ago

    Goat, shelve your own damn books if you don’t like the job Pig is doing.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 6 years ago

    I’m sorry, but I’ve missed the punchline. REALLY! Unless the third panel is trying to make a quote (like “dunk rye for me, Arch and Tina”), I’m not catching it.

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    chris_weaver  about 6 years ago

    I pun, therefore I am!

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    comic4matt  about 6 years ago

    If Stephan makes a pun in the forest and no one read it, did he really make a pun?

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    DocinOz62  about 6 years ago

    Singing: “Iiii…mmanual Karnt was a real pis-ant, who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy fella who could drink you under the table…….”

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    Gent  about 6 years ago

    But you’ve goat to stop it nonetheless.

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    Gent  about 6 years ago

    I’ve goat to do this. I Kant make a ham comic.

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    GeifuKe  about 6 years ago

    Philosopher’s Bookstore in the Bronx: Rule #1—Ya can put da books in Descartes, but ya Kant take dem with ya.

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    GeifuKe  about 6 years ago

    I Kant name any more than one philosopher at a time. One of the reasons I messed up on Jeopardy when they had the “Philosophers” Category.

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    GeifuKe  about 6 years ago

    Descartes: Da guy who invented da map.

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    don.fitzsimons  about 6 years ago

    Corey Mohler will now probably feel forced to break his streak of no Kant/can’t puns. Way to go, Stephan.

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    Sephten  about 6 years ago

    To quote Derek & Clive: “Who you callin’ Kant?”(Very rude; only funny for Cockney speakers.)

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member about 6 years ago

    In proposing to treat here of puns, the first thing I want to make clear to you is that there can be a difference between our sensation of puns (i.e. the idea that is formed in our imagination) and what is in the words that produces that sensation in us (i.e. what is in the word or in the name that is called by the name of “pun”). For, even though everyone is commonly persuaded that the ideas that are the objects of our thought are wholly like the objects from which they proceed, nevertheless I can see no reasoning that assures us that this is the case. On the contrary, I note many experiences that should cause us to doubt it.

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    Masterskrain Premium Member about 6 years ago

    But if Descartes and Kant spend too much time at the pot dispensary in Denver, who would want to see a Philosopher Stoned?

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    BigPearlsFan  about 6 years ago

    Funny thing, I actually have a sore throat today.

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    Nathan Daniels Premium Member about 6 years ago

    That joke is old. Pastis, you Freud.

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    Willywise52 Premium Member about 6 years ago

    And to think someone pays him to think this stuff up.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Oh, Stephan, I’ve been doing a “Descartes before the horse” pun for 40 years. And I stole it.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 6 years ago

    In class: “Mr. Smith, please name at least one well known philosopher.”

    Smith: “Professor, I can’t.”

    Prof: “Very good, Mr. Smith.”

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    Diat60  about 6 years ago

    Lowest form of humor. Suits me fine.

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    WCraft Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Yup, I was going to say the same thing. “Puns – the lowest form of humor.”

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    Max Starman Jones  about 6 years ago

    My mother quit school her senior year to marry my dad. He always said, “She put the heart before the course.”

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    rvps Premium Member about 6 years ago

    You are my hero man!

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    Alida_L  about 6 years ago

    One of my favorites ever!!! Lol.

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    azktryg  about 6 years ago

    Goat told Pig to put his books on oceanography on the top shelf and those about calculus on the shelf below. Pig was incredulous. He said “What? Lei-bnitz the sea?”

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    Lowell Gilbert  about 6 years ago

    one of the better ones

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    Bookworm  about 6 years ago

    A college professor of mine once said that all artists steal from each other; the trick is to only steal from the best.

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    ADNERB Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Most of the time I can figure out the PUNchline before it happens, but this one caught me by surprise. LOL!!!

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    Commanderbunbun  about 6 years ago

    Omg I haven’t laughed out loud at a comic in ages…I Kant stop!

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    Number Three  about 6 years ago

    Yes you Kan!

    xxx

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    Mary E Abdill Premium Member about 6 years ago

    But if medical books go first, then he is actually putting the “Hoarse” before “Descartes”. Stephan???

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    codedaddy  about 6 years ago

    This pun, using Descarte and a horse placed in reverse, is more than 50 years old!

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    Peam Premium Member about 6 years ago

    What no youtube links? Shame!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b7r5jIEe9s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SqQNgDrgg

    And the original TV Sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVX3uJpqxc

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    g8orade  about 6 years ago

    In honor of this, I contributed today to the Greek dough baking PAC.I paid a PhiloSoftFee.

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    Sisyphos  about 6 years ago

    Just because you’re showing off your literacy doesn’t make your wretched double-pun palatable, Cartoon-Boy!

    Goat’s books, indeed! Everybody knows he just devours them!

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    rgcviper  about 6 years ago

    Oy. This one’s bad, but it made me laugh.

    You are the master of comic puns, Stephan. I bow down, as I am not worthy …

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    RogerGray1  about 6 years ago

    The Marx of a great cartoonist is to have a Locke on your puns. This is definitely not a run-of-the-Mill strip like those other Thoreau away strips.

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    ND Cool Z  almost 6 years ago

    I KAN’T TAKE IT!!!

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    NeilCopeland  almost 5 years ago

    Suspension of belief just failed. No way a booklover like goat would let anyone else sort his books.

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    tony_n_jen2003  about 4 years ago

    Saw it coming

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