Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 19, 2015

Rat, if you’re going to beat him to a pulp, take off the gloves.

Bad pun.

Careful Rat, those ain’t boxing gloves. They look more like oven mitts.

To say this pun was coconuts might be preaching to the coir.

And Rat’s a probably pugilistic pupil.

Watch out, Rat. You could easily be erased!

No pun here, this time. Just a tongue-twister.

Do it, Rat. Do it for America.

Japanese is so loaded with homophones that it’s almost hard NOT to make puns. It’s not unusual that I have to explain which word (homophone) I mean.

Take the gloves off and let Cartoon Boy have it, Rat. It’s a bad pun and almost blasphemous at that! No pugilist pastor would use puppets!

A simply stupendous sample of alliteration!

Wow! Nice Spiro reference. I wonder how many of us remember him?

You know, we all groan and whine about the puns, but it takes a clever mind to keep coming up with them. Diseased, but clever.

Rat will pugilistically pummel Pastis.

It could have been worse. As the cartoon features talking animals, the priest could have been speaking from inside a cocoon.

“Beet you to a pulp” would have been another pun in itself. :-p

You know it’s coming, and still you groan!

Pulping has been big business for centuries in Wisconsin, but now it’s reduced to buttwipe, mostly.

And does the priest with the puppets in the pulpit do his pulping while eating a papaya and drinking Dr. Pepper?:Or is this whole thing just poo-poo?

Go Rat!

Violence is never the answer, Rat.

But for you… Well… Yeah.

xxx

i am positively palpitating with excitement over today’s strip

Pastis: Pummeled putrid pulp pile…

Not one of his best.

but FUN to say!

Hey, Rat, Can I help?

I told Charmy he should have killed Pastis when he had the chance.

Say it 3 times real fast.

With every fiber of my being, I apologize.

I love driving Rat up the wall.