Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 12, 2013

SNERK!!

We always used to fight over the race car. Nobody wanted to be the cannon.

A wind tunnel

Answer: Where do you think BB’s come from?

Too many players? Borrow the pistol and the knife from the Clue game.

Our family Monopoly game had a white wooden token from some other game and nobody knew how it got there, but it was the most popular…BTW, we did Free Parking cash, even though it’s not in the rules….

of course they do. it’s called sh….

RAPNEL!

Talk among yourselves. Never had a Monopoly set. Did have clue, with its array of weapons….As i said yesterday, I voted for the ouster of the thimble, and I am not convinced that dropping the iron in flavor of a cat was at all wise….

Money for free parking USED TO BE in the rules. It is gone now?

The next token should have been a bust of J.R.R. Tolkien. Then we would have a Tolkien token.

“Blond” for males.

BBs??? Birdshot!

Poor iron! He completely misunderstood when he heard them say it was time to put him out to stud.

I believe “Do Metal Dogs Poop?” was the working title for the book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

Is Brudder Pastis hping that Hasbro will issue a PB4S version of Monopoly?

Better still, how about a PB4S version of RISK! A world dominated by Rat could be a vast improvement!

Great stuff, love the tokens fighting.

The return of the inanimate talking objects. Reminds me of Pig’s fruit buddies or the Viking figurines.

“Do metal dogs poop?”

LOL

My Monopoly tokens are: thimble, wheelbarrow, man on a rearing horse, top hat, car, iron, shoe and dog.The dog has one shortened foreleg and can’t stand up.I always fancied the shoe.

What tokens do you readers have?

Money under Free Parking is the reason most games last forever and never end… It’s the worst house rule ever.

I don’t think so…

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

snerk 1.(Internet, slang) Expressing amusement; a snicker, or a snort of laughter.

Verb

snerk (third-person singular simple present snerks, present participle snerking, simple past and past participle snerked) 1.(Internet, slang) To snicker or snort with laughter to express amusement.

“Snerk” seems to imply a subdued, snide kind of amusement that exhibits the superior feelings of the snerker and expresses schadenfreude (deriving pleasure from the misfortune of others). “Snerk” is also onomatopoeic, attempting to mimic the snorting sound of such a laugh.

Stgephan, really enjoyed today’s strip. It made me giggle out loud.

Waaanh! From day one in my monopoly life I was the iron. I would iron the crease in the board whenever I stopped there. It’s a good thing I have a few irons to last me over the next years. The thimble is boring.

Some might say that the thimble is for pricks, but I always liked it.

I’d like to see a PB4S version of “Clue.”:Goat by the wall with a frying pan!

Iron is really getting steamed up.

after all these years his name is Rusty

Thimble thighman met a pieman going to the faire.Thaid thimble thighman to the pieman.“Where’s the beer tent?”

Love it Love it Love it!

xxx

I grew up with a Parisian Monopoly set, and the tokens were simple wooden disks with numbers on them. I never did get the “Thimble”, etc.

We got 20,000F for passing Depart, and the most expensive property was the Champs-Elysees.

Where’s the top hat? I ALWAYS take the top hat.

Monopoly came in for a lot of criticism because irons were “under-represented”. Sure, they got an iron. But it was only a token.

:ↁ

Now dropping the iron on the cat….

hmm something is wrong… this was actually slightly funny… is someone else writing the strip?

The iron was always my favorite…smoothed my way…lol. Love the idea of BB’s, and our family also had free parking cash.:)

Am I the only one who feels like the last panel could be a big Nate strip if they weren’t monopoly tokens?Like if you change the words a bit it kind of goes with the theme I’ve seen sometimes where Nate: says something along the lines of “I’m such a handsome stud”Francis: “no you aren’t”Nate: “shut up geek boy”Chad: (asks innocent question)