Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 14, 2013
Transcript:
Rat: What are you doing, Pig? Pig: I saw you doing origami, so I thought I'd try it myself. This one's an exploding deli overwhelming a poor town with a wave of falling meats. Rat: It's a what now? Pig: An origami salami tsunami. Rat: You bring down the entire comics section.
Sherlock Watson almost 11 years ago
He got the idea from a fortune-telling mother who specializes in those things: the Origami Salami Tsunami Swami Mommy.:Next!
legaleagle48 almost 11 years ago
Actually, Rat, that’s one of Stephan’s better puns.
margueritem almost 11 years ago
Ah, the lowly pun, how often it is maligned.
Templo S.U.D. almost 11 years ago
Would it make Rat happy if Stephan stayed in jail while the animals and baby were bailed out?
edclectic almost 11 years ago
Do you have any gray poop-on?
Rj_tapled almost 11 years ago
Nice
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Sherlock….
I do hope the Swami Mommy warned my left-wing friend, Tommy, the Commie.
I think an origami salami tsunami would drive him quite balmy.
He hates salami…. though he does buy pastrami to feed his gourami.
michaelyukyuk almost 11 years ago
Folks! Wake up and repent daydreaming in school……..That is NOT A PUN; it"s an alliteration……..a repetition of two or more words beginning with the same letter, or having the same sound. Stephan makes wonderfully, groan-inducing puns….but this aint one ofem.
cdgar almost 11 years ago
Sick…..
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 11 years ago
Rhyming words, actually, but simply rhyming words does not make Pastis a poet.
PICTO almost 11 years ago
On a visit to an art gallery we sausage an origami. As for the quality of the pun, I think it was the wurst.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago
It’s not a pun, it’s not alliteration…but it’s wordplay.It’s rhyming words, but not rhyming lines like in a poem…. (not that all poems rhyme.) I guess I’d say it’sa form of parachesis…a very tight form, since the words are fairly exact rhymes…But really, who cares WHAT literary device it is…. It’s funny.Isn’t that the point?
edclectic almost 11 years ago
Let’s change the name of the strip…Pedants Before Swine
JohnoTeacher almost 11 years ago
I agree, absolutely offal. :)
shstuart Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Actually, assonance and consonance are better terms to describe today’s shaggy dog tale…..
elbob83709 almost 11 years ago
Pearls is a national treasure.
Charlycine almost 11 years ago
I LOVE PASTIS,,,
Dan Weiss Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Keep it up, I look forward to your comic every morning, thanks.
Yammo Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Ohhh! Didn’t see that one coming!
RACerri32 almost 11 years ago
Luckily for us, mr. Pastis’ mommy never told him not to play with his words, or he ignored her! Oh , & by the way, CROCCYS RULE!!!
grayvlad8 almost 11 years ago
I don’t know why pig didn’t make it on a straw mat and use more lunchmeat, the it would be an origami, salami, pastrami, tsunami on tatami.
Linda Pearson almost 11 years ago
Did I miss them getting out of jail?
CartoonServices.Com almost 11 years ago
I worked at an origami store. Until it folded.
jackdohany almost 11 years ago
You got that right, Rat!
Willie C almost 11 years ago
Credit where credit is due…that’s actually pretty good.
comicsboi Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I thought we were safe from the pun strips on weekdays. :)
singlefemalelaywer almost 11 years ago
Funny stuff
cherry_alya_alex almost 11 years ago
so true ignore those other people
LOlveda almost 11 years ago
& they got out of jail for this??? BRING GOAT BACK!!!! :P lol
Perkycat almost 11 years ago
OMG! I don’t care what you call it, I loved it and think it very funny! @Andy White – very funny what you said there.
patsysutcliffe Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Love the strip, and the comments that were not made by self-made comic critics.
Cat Hammer almost 11 years ago
I think I saw that one already at the Narita terminal:http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/shops/rest_shop/shop/floor_list/detail/t1cb03_t0002k.html
GoodQuestion Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Did anyone check the mushrooms Stephan had in his salid last nite?!? . . . ☻
cobirdman almost 11 years ago
Pastrami?
Moishe3rd almost 11 years ago
What happened to jail?
Ooten Aboot almost 11 years ago
@michaelyukyukProf danglais est au déjeuner.
Gokie5 almost 11 years ago
Ahhhh – yesterday, the first panel (about Rat taking up origami) made me think that Pastis was leading up to a pun. When that didn’t happen, I felt a little empty. Now I realize that he was giving us a two-day set-up for a tsunami of a pun. My faith is restored!
Gokie5 almost 11 years ago
Just read all the comments about pun/not pun. Whatever it is, I think it contributed to a satisfying ending.
Marc Schiffres almost 11 years ago
Out of jail and back to the terrible puns, I see…
3pibgorn9 almost 11 years ago
Actually they’re a string of what are called “feminine” rhymes in which the last two syllables rhyme. rather than “masculine” rhymes in which only the last syllable rhymes.
Alan Rees almost 11 years ago
Amid all the discussion of what kind of word play this is, I’m surprised that no-one (unless I have missed a comment) has said anything about Pastis having used TWO DAYS’ strips to set this one up. Yesterday’s strip seemed a little flat and I wondered if he was getting ready for something else.
Number Three almost 11 years ago
No matter how funny the whole strip is… The ‘ripping on Stephan Pastis because he made yet another terrible pun’ always cracks me up.
LOL xxx
Popeyesforearm almost 11 years ago
nice smackdown Prof!It’s a fun pun son.
knight1192a almost 11 years ago
Ok, this is the worst pun I’ve ever seen him do. Have to start setting it up the day before just to get a pun out. Bad.
William Taylor almost 11 years ago
I think Pig should be put back in prison. In solitary. In a soundproof, padded cell.
bcathey1960 almost 11 years ago
Loved it – great word play!
bmonk almost 11 years ago
It reminds me of several Guy Noir spots from A Prairie Home Companion, where they would indulge in such wordplay banter.
blunebottle almost 11 years ago
I have to say, todays comments were very entertaining in themselves and well worth the read. Kudos to Pastis to be able to generate this much traffic from a simple paper player pander.
soaringblocks almost 11 years ago
Love it!How DO you come up with these??
Aloysius almost 11 years ago
I’ve never really been a fan of the pun strips, but I forgive them because of all the unique (and funny) complaints Rat levels at Pastis.
Goat (from PBS) over 3 years ago
that actually really good origami
EileenPatriciaBruce almost 3 years ago
Doesn’t matter, it’s funny to me.