Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 05, 2013

Are they going to be the new seals/Orca?

Nah, that’s just Groucho Marx

YEAH! No Rat!

(He sucks!)

Trust those instincts.

Floating on ice from down south I see.

Why a duck? Why a no chicken?

Just go with the floe, Penguins.

Pastis seems to recycling all of his old Crocodile trying eat Zeeba jokes.

“Nobody nose ♪ ♫ ♫ the trouble I’ve ♪ ♫ ♪ seen ♪ …”

Hey…. I can post that on Agnes, too.

Besides, Rat and Pig are moonlighting in Wizard of Id.

The polar bear is to these birds as the fish the birds wanna catch is to them.

its actually the killer dolphins..

Never fear penguins, either that isn’t a polar bear or you aren’t penguins, there are no penguins at the North Pole and no bears at the South.

Stephen never studied Natural Science in school…..

Stephan never read “The Prehistoric Far Side” book.Gary Larson points out admitting that he certainly made the mistake by putting polar bears and penguins in the same cartoon.Study, Steph! Read the Far Side!

What? That’s not Groucho Marx?!I have a feel for these things, too. But it’s usually wrong.

Ok…. let me try to understand…..Girl penguins wear pink bows.Boy penguins catch fish for them.

Polar bears wear Groucho glasses…and all of them, and many other animals, speak English….But it’s unscientific for them to all be in the same comic strip panel??!

If the polar bear visited Rat and Pig’s house, would you point out that polar bears don’t visit Northern California?Cos I swear, I live in the same city as Pastis, Pig and Rat….and no polar bear has ever knocked on my door. For that matter, I’ve never had zebras, crocs or lions as neighbors, either.Maybe Stephan should go to the library more?Sheesh.

I’m generally pretty permissive on the polar bear/penguin thing, but this gag would work with seals on either end of the deal — Polar bears eat seals, and Elephant seals eat penguins. And an elephant seal in Groucho glasses would be a riot.

Picky, picky,picky. Did you think comics were supposed to reflect reality? Better quit reading comics! And where are your daily comic strips; critics?

Similar to the polar bear/penguin debate, “Finding Nemo” was ruined for me when Marlin and Dory were swallowed by the whale and ejected through the blowhole. Talking fish and birds I can accept in a movie, but unlike in humans, the digestive tract and the respiratory system do not meet at all in cetaceans. Whales do not eject water from the blowhole: what you see is mist created when warm air from the lungs meets colder air above the ocean. I tutor some kids on-line and it took a session to correct that misconception, thank you, Pixar.

O_o dang, why cant people just sit back and enjoy the comic strip, you all seem to fight over teh littlest stupidist things, calm down will ya??? its just a comic, sheesh,you know what! there are worse things in syria right now, fight about that

@Flashold—when it comes to moonlighting I prefer Cybil Sheppard and Bruce Willis!

He jumps in and it’s Penguin Soup for him…

I think they’re lemmings in disguise.

Just BRING BACK THE CROCS and all will be well!

@Red Golzalez, the reason why rat isn’t here is that he, and pig, were teleported to today’s Wizard of Id comic strip.

I enjoy knowing the real life things!!!!

Mr. Patsis has committed the all-too-common and inexcusable error of believing that penguins, from the southern hemisphere of the world, somehow come into contact with Polar Bears, which are found only in the Arctic and sub-Arctic.

Anybody out there remember Walter Lanz’s Chilly Willy cartoon? This penguin resided with polar bears in Alaska. Lanz was known most for Woody Woodpecker.

@TheTrustedMechanicDoubt not the trusted wisdom of ignorant ranting. Stupid obstinance allways trumps thoughtful consideration of proven facts.

And typos makes fools of us all (as in me).

Now I want a t-shirt with a picture of a polar bear wearing nose glasses! :)

Now, I’m not saying this is what Stephan is drawing, but please, to end the partisan bickering, look up auk and puffin. Let’s just say that is what he is drawing and set everything right with the comic world again. . . not everything black and white is a penguin. . . I wonder, if Stephan draws Zeeba with a carrot in his mouth, would you think him a penguin? Besides, one can clearly see that the ice is a perfect circle (well, close to perfect, but, hey it’s hard to draw a perfect circle, so, okay, fine – one can fuzzily see the ice as a perfect circle). As ice does not melt uniformly unless it was formed uniformly and all outside influences are also uniform in temperature, which never happens within a natural thermodynamic setting, one can logically assume that this is an exhibit at the zoo, and penguins are always next to the polar bears at the zoo. . . perhaps the door was left open – I mean, how else did the polar bear get the nose and eye brow glasses unless their was a concession stand nearby?

geography, my dear, geography. Penguins are in the south not north pole.

I think they should start dancing and singing.Penguins can do that right?RIGHT??Sniff…….You mean cartoons are not REAL!!!!!!!(ha)

No, people, there are no penguins living near polar bears. However, there are penguin-like birds called auks that live near the north pole. http://www.allthesea.com/Sea-Bird-Auk.html

Not a very believable disguise.

Steph I truly love these guys, so cute in an amazingly wierd kind of way….

Love the disguise!

xxx

“Candygram!”

Mr. Penguin should ditch her for someone a lot less demanding and more sympathetic. I wonder if Lola Granola is available these days…

did you ever see the footage of the orcas tipping the ice so that the seals would slip off into the water? They used it to teach their young to hunt. They do it over and over. I know how they feel, I am married with children(and grandchildren)

“Quit fooling around and give us some ^$#^!?&^ directions south”

What’s stopping the polar bear from just climbing onto the ice floe?

Where is the “ladies first comment”?

Reminds me of the Far Side where a polar bear was pretending to be a penguin with a beak mask.

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