Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 25, 2015

I bet they’re not doing any worse than Ray-B’s Pet Shop.

Saw that pun coming in Pig’s first two lines in Panel 1.

People here will buy cigarettes called Black Death with a skull and crossbones on them so I bet a place with a name like Sam and Ella’s would do a booming business.

If it were “Hey Ella! Hey Sam!” it would have disguised it a little.

Well, things close to that happen in the real world. I lived in a small rural town several decades ago, and living in that town was a fellow named Sam whose wife’s name was Martha. He set up a locksmith shop in a big blue van that he drove around town all the time with the name of his business painted on the side: S & M Lock and Key. It was a small town…

I rue that pun. It goes into the rue bin.

When I first moved to Atlanta in 1979, there was a widely advertised auto service business called “S&M Clutch and Brake”. Wish I’d taken a photo of their downtown billboard.

not in league with the puns here so far, but I know of a place in Corona, Ca, where the address is 120 North Joy Street.On the building, they abbreviated “North” to “NO.”, so it reads:120 NO. JOYone of the saddest addresses I’ve ever seen.

Then there’s this shop:https://goo.gl/maps/RnF9h

Used to be a paint-n-wallpaper store near me called “Harry Green Wallcovering”. Disgusting name, to be sure, but not as bad as another office that still exists: “Loose Brown Attorneys”.

Why Pastis Stopped Being a Lawyer

Where’s the baseball bat for using on Pastis

No s*** – I hadn’t worked that out, thank you so much

Yesterday we drove by

Randy Church Restorations.

That’s why the vocal Team of Sammy Davis Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald never worked out….

And to make it worse, they hired a store manager named “Mary T. Floyd”

Could have been worse. Could have been the Tuff Brakes store.

And the old classic used plumbing shop – Honest Carr the Used John Dealer.

Now, where’s that baseball bat?

“Sam and Ella’s – Try our antibiotic menu”.

Regardless of your politics, please take a moment today to honor those who gave their lives in defense of our country.

Congrats on the Reuben award Stephen: Long overdue on this in my opine.

@Phatts California. What about 420? Is the “No” removed from Joy St.?

Pastis: Winner of the 2015 Reuben for Newspaper Comic Strip – 3rd time

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/05/24/2015-reubens-roz-chasts-big-award-caps-a-winning-event-for-women-creators/

Did you know that Lois Lane’s parents were named Sam and Ella?

They lived in a nice house on Lois Lane………

Me, too, but what’s wrong with your car?

By the first panel I knew this was going to be a pun strip but as always I didn’t get it until the last panel. Good job, Mr Pastis!

The fundraising turkeys for the marching band in Funky Winkerbean come from Sam ‘n’ Ella’s Farm.

i’ve recently been entertained in a twisted way by the problems of a prominent chinese place that had let themselves go, been cited a number of times, etc. but now they’re in big trouble cause of a salmonella outbreak among a large number of people attending a banquet there. the banquet was for the asian law students. law students & their teachers were the victims. if anyone had died it would not be funny, but no one did. let the trials begin!!

Here in Pinellas County, we used to have Stuckey Plumbing, a pediatrician named Dr. Kidwell, and a proctologist named Dr. Butter. According to Google, they’re no longer here, but I remember them.

Was Ella’s shirt painted on?

Well, since the “Sam and Ella” pun has been done to death, I assume the “out-brake” part was the intended novel twist.

Time to brush up on some appropriate, less gross sounding business ideas.xxx

Then there’s this place I pass all the time on the way to and from a client:http://smautosupply.com/I went in for auto paint one time. All they had was fifty shades of gray.

Why isn’t Rat beating Pastis in panel 4?

That’s often me. Sometimes I’ll get it in the second panel, or in the case of a Sunday strip the third or fourth panel (depending on how many panels on that Sunday), but practically never in panel one. This one was just too obvious.

i saw a gas station once when i was a kid that was called “gas & go” with a huge hand painted sign out front that said “eat here and gas up” i have often wondered since then if they sold rolaids and tums and if they were in business long

Also in Atlanta, there was a “Sam and Eli’s Deli”, (the owner’s kids), commonly known as the “The Salmonella Deli”. Actually pretty good. And the Brown Tire Store. I always said “Sorry, I only use black tires.”

Used to be an evening paper in DC (the Star, IIRC) that ran radio spots featuring a Nick-and-Nora-Charles type of couple named Sam and Janet Evening. Every mention of their name provoked an uptempo blast from a tuba playing the first few notes of “Some Enchanted Evening.”

Ella is so well endowed!

Just put a smiley face emoji after it

brembo sensify is better