Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 19, 2014

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    Bilan  over 10 years ago

    He won’t have to worry about the sixth or ninth commandment anytime in the near future.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 10 years ago

    Today’s background music: “Nuns” by Big Daddy Graham.

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    naturally_easy  over 10 years ago

    KSSHH? That can’t be good!

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    knight1192a  over 10 years ago

    Kneed the wrong one in the groin. You wanna talk to Pastis and really get him to listen, you must first demonstrate your skills on someone else. Like Rat.

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    Ida No  over 10 years ago

    Nun 1: “Now, let’s continue this conversation in the confessional cage box.”

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    GVTriton  over 10 years ago

    you deserve that Stephen, don’t forget to whoop rat’s ass as well. one more thing, never call a Nun ‘Babe’ it’ll make things worse.

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    hariseldon59  over 10 years ago

    Ouch, right in the oompa loompas!

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    lynnskay  over 10 years ago

    I hope that nun is not an English teacher.(discuss with the…nuns and me)

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    hariseldon59  over 10 years ago

    Nunjas

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I didn’t think those nuns still did that stuff…especially not officially…I mean, I really thought they’d be out of the habit.

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    Perforated Biscuit  over 10 years ago

    REPENT, NUNS!! REPENT!!!

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    PICTO  over 10 years ago

    The Sisters of Perpetual Pain…?

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    Egrayjames  over 10 years ago

    My first mother-in-law, when she was a little girl and learning to write, had her left hand fingers broken by a Nun in Newport, RI. It was considered a sign of the devil to be left handed. True story! (That must have been back in the late 1920’s? It would never happen today…yeah right?)

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    biglar  over 10 years ago

    Funny – my Great-Aunt is “Sister Mary.” She’s a cloistered nun though so she wouldn’t be making any “house calls.”

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    Stocky One  over 10 years ago

    Well, that’s… unconventional ;-)

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    Sisyphos  over 10 years ago

    You were warned yesterday, Cartoon-Boy! It is the Righteous Wrath of the Good Nuns, the deliverers of God’s message to the sinner! Well stroked, sister! Spot-on to the oompa loompas!Repent while ye may, Cartoon-Boy!

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    MeGoNow Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Don’t mess with nuns. It’s not just coincidence that they dress like ninjas.

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    puddlesplatt  over 10 years ago

    mushed the plums indeed

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    Rex Roach Premium Member over 10 years ago

    …with my fellow M.M.A. nuns and ME.

    I wouldn’t be a grammar Nazi except for published works. You have influence and gross errors like this should not be taken lightly.

    Besides, it’s an affront to nuns everywhere. (But I REALLY love your work.)

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    nosirrom  over 10 years ago

    Did you hear the one about the 2 nuns driving through Transilvania? Suddenly a vampire appeared out of nowhere in front of their car. One nun turns to the other and says "Show him your cross’. The other nun sticks her head out the window and says “Get out of the road your git”.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Ouch, that really had to hurt!

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    sarah413 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Rhonda Rousey is a nun? Who’d of thunk.

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    juicebruce  over 10 years ago

    Today might be a record for PBS comments, the numbers are growing ! Ya-Ho !

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    YatInExile  over 10 years ago

    We had nuns like this when I was in school.

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    crow4946  over 10 years ago

    Right in the ol’ OOMPA LOOMPAs.

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    Gokie5  over 10 years ago

    I’m of the opinion that the kneeing site (incidentally, I do think they’re supposed to kneel, not knee) is a little high up for the oompa loompas. Also, in the post-trauma panel there’s a black smudge on Stephan’s belly, unless smudges on this computer are able to move up with the text. Finally, when such injuries happen on TV, the guys always double up and roll around in agony. Maybe Stephan is suggesting this, but being uncharacteristically discreet.

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    felinefan55 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    My daughter has her B.A. She’s an English major. When she comes back to the States she hopes to start on her Master’s in Library Science. The reason I bring this up is because of Faulkner. Her only failing grade was on a workshop based on his works. She HATED his lack of proper English. This is a child that from age 11 on read Twain every summer for fun. (His lack of grammar etiquette irked her as well, just not as bad.) She has a saying “Faulner f**ked me up”.

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    ajr58  over 10 years ago

    I thought their weapons of choice were rulers ….

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    rowf39  over 10 years ago

    I’m disappointed that a man as obviously educated as Steph would write a nun saying “….with…..I”. That’s very illiterate, and it ain’t well english neither!

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    comixrock0124  over 10 years ago

    Look out,I’m a NUNJA!

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    ChessPirate  over 10 years ago

    “Yes, we’re from the Mary Magdalene Abbey… of death!”

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  over 10 years ago

    Who would have guessed nuns wore purple slacks under their habits?

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    Number Three  over 10 years ago

    Poor Stephan can’t do right for doing wrong!

    xxx

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Bad grammar. She should have ended her sentence with “my fellow MMA nuns and me,” not I. When in doubt, take the other name out and see if it sounds wrong with the word I there.

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    pnmiq  over 10 years ago

    Ooh, he got it right in the nuns!

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    jondelfin Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I wonder how the nuns feel about mishyphenating “of-fen-sive.”

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    DanielBCaton  over 10 years ago

    “… NUNS AND I”??? This grammatical error is getting rampant and annoying. No excuse for an professional writer, even a cartoonist!

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    rgcviper  over 10 years ago

    Indeed … better watch those Oompa Loompas, Pastis.

    That, or get a bodyguard.

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    Asharah  over 10 years ago

    I went to Catholic School for 12 years and you do not mess with the nuns.

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    Lamberger  over 10 years ago

    Sister Mary Elephant never went into the playground without her “yard” stick.

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    jeanniebee  over 10 years ago

    Stephan was my hero when he had the strip about the lemming who misspelled “all right” as “alright” and then died going over the cliff right after his grammar error. I was surprised & dismayed when he had the nun say “fellow nuns & I.” Maybe he was just getting in another jab at the nuns!

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    theLazyCartoonist  over 10 years ago

    What kind of meat does the Pope eat?

    NUN!

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    Ernest Lemmingway  over 7 years ago

    Nobody’s made a “nun”-chucks joke yet? I’m disappointed, GoComics readers.

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    imcd7007  over 2 years ago

    parkore

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    alantain  over 1 year ago

    No nonsense nuns.

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