Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 15, 2013

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 11 years ago

    So who’s Parsel, and what does Rat have against him?

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    Old Man River  almost 11 years ago

    Either the printer or the editor made a boo-boo. I’m guessing it should have been PASTIS. Also no circled letter in AND. No wat to solve the puzzle

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    Bilan  almost 11 years ago

    Rat seems to be missing it also.

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Despite its name, it’s not really the funny bone.

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    PEARLS IS BOTH DUMB AND UNFUNNY

    HUMERUS

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    stoneswivel  almost 11 years ago

    There are no errors in the Jumble. It is both correct and consistent with Jumble logic and humor. Great work, Pastis.

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 11 years ago

    Re. Rat’s statement in the last panel: Just one, or both?

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    RetFor  almost 11 years ago

    wow, how do you not get that the first one is pearls…

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    sukiec  almost 11 years ago

    Now unilaterally humerus

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    hariseldon59  almost 11 years ago

    I love this one.

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    hariseldon59  almost 11 years ago

    Remember the old Operation board game where you could remove the patient’s “funny bone”?

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    SFpagan  almost 11 years ago

    Seeing how nasty Rat can get , it wouldn’t surprise me if the next jumble about Pastis would be Rat’s opinion of the cartoonist’s intelligence :p

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    Bassrox Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Excellent!

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    natureboyfig4 Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    You made me think on a weekend. That’s considered a felony in these parts! :-P

    Kidding. Good one!

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    Sisyphos  almost 11 years ago

    Hmmf! Not impressed. Cartoon-Boy doesn’t distinguish between humerus and humorous. Such a homonym!

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    justalady21  almost 11 years ago

    Looks like some of Pearls’ readers might be missing a B-R-A-I-N.

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    puddlesplatt  almost 11 years ago

    Duh

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Pastis didn’t make a mistake…. to say someone is missing his “humorous” would make no sense…Someone too serious or unfunny is often facetiously said to be missing his “funny bone”, ie his “humerus”.

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    WoT_Hog Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    BRILLIANT! Dang! I thought the first word was ‘RAPELS’ Duh!

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    specinss  almost 11 years ago

    Pastis took the Jumble up a notch. He made the scramble words make a sentence about Pearls (untrue statement)!

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    Arty8846  almost 11 years ago

    Where do I go to find out if I got it right?

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    Noah121  almost 11 years ago

    I remember when FoxTrot did this several years ago: the “Jason’s Jumbles.”

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    rshive  almost 11 years ago

    Like the second line in the jumble. There was one like it in an old book called “Puzzles Anybody Can Solve.”

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    sleeepy2  almost 11 years ago

    Can we please have one of these every week?

    Please?

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    harley wolf  almost 11 years ago

    Im pretty sure it is suppose to say pearls is both dumb and unfunny :-)

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    Marc Schiffres  almost 11 years ago

    Why the hell did I actually take the time to figure that out?

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    Radical-Knight  almost 11 years ago

    I thought this was exceedingly Humerus…

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    “Unfunny”; Gotta love it! Great job, old man. As a puzzle aficionado, I was drawn in right away. Maybe that’s a great new trend, you have to solve a puzzle to discover the punch line. Cool.

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    Dabattlebacca  almost 11 years ago

    Lol, figured it out

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    “JUMBLE, That Scrambled Word Game”—Fits with Rat’s scrambled brains!

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    YatInExile  almost 11 years ago

    I saw this on Facebook yesterday and went looking for it in the archives. Now I know why I couldn’t find it.

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    A_NY_Outlaw  almost 11 years ago

    Wow, I wonder how many jobs Rat actually has had. I think he should get back to Joe’s Roastery

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    Thehag  almost 11 years ago

    Jumped to humerus without having to do the d@mn puzzle. So much easier, takes less time. Didn’t have to get all jumbled up in the clues.

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    chabias  almost 11 years ago

    Well done, Stephan!

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    fltflyer Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Perfect

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    NKBoyle  almost 11 years ago

    It must be great tibia cartoonist.

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    SukieDC  almost 11 years ago

    Okay, for the anatomy:what is referred to as the “funny bone” is actually part of the ulnar nerve which gives that miserable twang when you hit your elbow wrong. So, near the humerus,but not it — which is just fine because this is a groaner pun on the singular of humeri, the bone in the upper arm.

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    shstuart Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Thank you for making me think a little this morning! I look forward to this strip each and every day. And the puns are delightful, creative license is not something I FOSSA bout….

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    Number Three  almost 11 years ago

    Sighhhhh… Does Rat ever give Stephan a break?

    Daft question really.

    xxx

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    Gokie5  almost 11 years ago

    You probably don’t want to know.

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    hariseldon59  almost 11 years ago

    Yes, but now they have special editions where you can operate on Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin. Maybe there should be a Pearls edition where you can operate on Stephan.

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    A purring cat is the best tranquilizer  almost 11 years ago

    A favorite kind of puzzle for me! Loved it!

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    jackhs  almost 11 years ago

    Me like

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    willcarpenter  almost 11 years ago

    Very clever – well done!

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    labo22  almost 11 years ago

    I thought the first word was SLAPER

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    raith7777  almost 11 years ago

    I love that only one arm is showing in each picture, so it really might be missing!

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    katheliz  almost 11 years ago

    I loved this strip! Masterpiece!

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    naturally_easy  almost 11 years ago

    Is unfunny even a word?

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    grymoire  almost 11 years ago

    The solution for “MUDS” could also be “bums”.

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    dbe1800  almost 11 years ago

    this was AWESOME!!!

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    rkingsle  almost 11 years ago

    This takes the award for funniest, but intellectual! I couldn’t figure out the bone scramble, so I went to “www.unscramble.net”. Keep up the great work!!!

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    dfrost1  about 4 years ago

    “Pearls is both dumb and unfunny” “Humerus”

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    Can-dog  over 3 years ago

    Heh

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    Snuffles the Mute Terrorist Cat  about 3 years ago

    Pearls is both dumb and unfunny.Ershumu= humerusHumerus Is the answer. I used online word scrambler to find it. Humerus means funny bone.

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