Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 16, 2013

The first priority should be to check to see if the killer dolphin is still in the house.(I can’t believe I’m saying that)

Nah, get the mop. You can always whack the dolphin with the handle.

Perhaps finding out if her husband is alive. No? Okay, floors it is.

Maybe they were dolphin bones. I know, it was Larry (sigh). But one can only hope.

Larry will turn up alive, somehow. But he will turn up still dumber than a turnip. So, Patty is right not to worry about him. By all means, attend to those wet floors before some permanent damage is done! And let the killer dolphins beware, because Patty is no pushover!

Gotta give it to Patty, she’s got her priorities straight. Junior forget’s his father is too much of an idiot for such obvious signs to actually mean his death. Such obvious signs in the Zeeba Zeeba Eata frat house would certainly mean someone had died (and the irony there is there just as idiotic as Larry). But with Larry the obvious signs are always misleading.

hes sharing KFC with the dolphin

Considering its Larry I´d imagine he got them – dumb luck works that way after all.

Isn’t there a saying..something like…God takes care of the drunk and the stupid? Larry will be just fine.

Patty realizes that Larry is at least bright enough to send others in harms way.

In yesterday’s strip the floor seemed to be covered with carpet. Cartoon physics I guess.

Aaack! Patty the Croc is right! Once laminate boards are wet, the edges will rise and buckle. Once the edges lift, the board must be replaced – there is no way to repair the board !Wipe up any wet spills immediately with a dry cloth. Then spot clean with a manufacturer-approved laminate cleaner. Then clean the floor with a dry dust mop.And . . . and . . . there was something else . . . oh yeah! Get your husband’s body parts out of there.

Well, dolphin won’t look like Groucho now, cuz he dropped the disguise. Now, he’ll probably look like zeeba.

Larry is sure to come back; he’s the one unkillable croc.·I think it’s like Highlander; every time a croc dies, another one gains his life force. In the end, there can only be one.

She’s right, though. If there’s no water beading wax on the floor, and those are real wood, if she doesn’t get that water off of them now, they’re gonna be ruined forever! And wood floors are expensive to replace!! Never mind about the water discoloration!

The Japanese fisherman should never have thrown Flipper back in the water…now he has PTSD and is on a rampage!

Larry is drinking beer with the dolphin.

How did it turn into a hardwood floor since yesterday?

I can’t imagine this strip without Larry. I’m sure he is fine and is laughing his crocodile tail off panel.

Mitigate Larry.

Check out yesterday’s strip. The bones are there.

Apparently the crocs have eaten all of the zeebas. Are the dolphins going to munch away all of the crocs next? Then what will you do for the rest of the strip? The crocs and zeebas are the best part!!!

Perhaps you could make a storyline that revolves around the dolphins. They are pretty funny at that – lots funnier than pig or goat.

[Awfully hard to hold a mop with fins]As hard as holding a hammer?

Maybe Junior was screaming about the floors.

You’d think it would be hard to hold mallets, too, but they did it in the openiing strips.