Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 15, 2013

For a big guy, he’s got a great vertical.

Imagine if he used both cheeks!

What a ham!

In the second panel, doesn’t that count as travelling? That’s a basketball no-no.

I don’t know butt it seem’s to me he’s being a bit cheeky

Well, Goat, you just HAD to ask, didn’t you?

BasketsI make baskets…And my heart beatsSo that I can hardly speakAnd I seem to findThe high scores that I seekWhen I’m out there and I’mBouncing cheek to cheek

BTW I answered some people..Including Redkaycei, Corzak, and imbaldeagle…fairly late yesterday…Just in case you want to look back…<— thataway…LOL

We only got the crocs for a day??? Sigh.

Bouncing cheek to cheek (just don’t ask Pig to dance)…

Number 32? Just call him Shaquille O’Pig!

“Half-court, I’m at half-courtI’ve got the ball and the defense I can’t deke;I’ll use my butt to get the two points which I seekBy bouncing to the basket, cheek to cheek”

With apologies to Fred Astaire

I jotted this down before I scrolled down to find @SusanSunshine beat me to it. So it wouldn’t go to waste, can we say she cut the original on 45 and I dubbed the 12" dance remix?

Great minds think alike, artsyguy…that’s what I’d like to call it. LOL….

But sure… we’ll share it…I was faster…but you obviously know more about basketball.(Which is easy, cos I know nothing. )

And c.davies… thank you!

The next step for Pig is a visit to the tattoo parlor.

A little tongue in cheek here.. Yuk yuk

1)Is Pig trying to give new meaning to Matthew 5:39?!?2)@Susan Sunshine…clever takeoff on Irving Berlin! But(t) I can’t imagine Fred Astaire playing basketball!

Good hind site is important in hoops.

Pig attack. Even dunking is better with bacon.

Can’t be a double dribble. He only bounced on one cheek.

What’s the difference between someone holding a ball in both hands right before a big leap and a big bounce?

@templo SUD and others, traveling calls went the way of the Dodo bird when M.J. came into the N.B.A. If pig has this much bounce, imagine what the Kardashian sisters have.

Pass the Flubber.

So nice to see Pig happy and successful at something for a change. Usually he is just the butt of Rat’s jokes.

I have developed a new respect for Pig .. I wonder if I can do that with my big booty?

Who says white meat can’t jump!

Rubber booty basket bumpers!

I see a dunk contest on the horizon with Tigger.

Love it Love it Love it!

xxx

Do the Lakers know about pig?

If only, then we can all play and become zillionaires.

i think this a reference to when pig thought his butt was a superpower and that poster called pigs CAN fly

The spring-like tail helps, too!

Super Bouncy Butt Man!!!!!!

Just like Barkley in his prime.

Is it legal to dribble a player in basketball?

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Since they seem to be about two feet tall, they do need any advantage available if they are going to dunk the ball.

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Looks like a pig with a poke on the ball.

I wish!

A double dribble is when, after dribbling the ball, you catch it, and then bounce it again ( a bouncing pass is allowed). This wouldn’t be close to that.A travel is when you move both of your feet while holding the ball. As has been said, allowance is made when you’re driving for the basket. If both feet leave the ground, you would be called for traveling if one foot touches back down while you are still holding the ball.

Air Pig.

Can’t you see it now? Kids everywhere will be shelling out thousands of dollars for a pair of Air Pig shorts. They’ll want to be just like Pig. And someone will make a movie about an orphaned teen who find these basketball shorts hanging on an electric line. The kid gets the shorts off the line only to be struck at that moment by lightning and he discovers hes suddenly got mad basketball skills he didn’t have before. And on the inside is this fade P. They’ll call it “Like Pig” and get some teenaged rapper to play the lead.

If only someone could really do that. Basketball would never be the same.