Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 16, 2016

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    BE THIS GUY  over 8 years ago

    Can we send the censor guy back to the 1950’s?

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    Sherlock Watson  over 8 years ago

    Did Pig get the idea from a do-it-yourself TV show called Dam Nation?

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Waist deep in the big muddy and the big fool says to push on.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 8 years ago

    Take note, C.S.C., there was no N at the end of “dam” like Rat and Pig said.

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    LuvThemPluggers  over 8 years ago

    Such a great, multipurpose word:

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    Sherlock Watson  over 8 years ago

    That censor is the most irritated guy by a dam site.:I’ll stop now.

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    hawgowar  over 8 years ago

    “Hmm-Hmm, Excuse me sir, but is this a GOD dam? Hehehe.”

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Life getting you down? Everyday troubles seem overwhelming? Do what I do. Take Damitol™. It won’t make your problems disappear. You just won’t care anymore.

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    noahproblem  over 8 years ago

    I would’ve thought there would be a beaver “floating” around here to complete the dam joke and really give the censor dude a reason to have a conniption fit.

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    Sandfan  over 8 years ago

    I recently lost a credit card, and had to call to get a replacement. The customer service lady wanted to verify my last charge on the card, and she said “Sir, I don’t want to offend you, but the last charge on the card was at The Dam Liquor Store. Is that correct?” I informed her that the store was by a dam, and was indeed called The Dam Liquor Store. I found it quite sad that this would be thought of as something that would offend.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Frankly my dear, I don’t give a dam!

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Frankly my dear, I don’t give a dam!

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    juicebruce  over 8 years ago

    There are some Dam-Aging comments around here ! …….For a moment I did think Mr Pastis was introducing a new character ,the beaver…………..

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    whiteheron  over 8 years ago

    Tomorrow, Larry will be in the strip chasing Zeba neighbor who is trying to bust the dam. However, the backyard will remain flooded, because when you are up to your zebra in crocodiles, it is hard to remember the object was to drain the backyard.

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    Sportymonk  over 8 years ago

    Dam – a barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, the resulting reservoir being used in the generation of electricity or as a water supply.

    Damn – be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell: be forever damned with Lucifer.• be doomed to misfortune or failure: the enterprise was damned.

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    dadoctah  over 8 years ago

    I don’t know why people think this censorship attitude comes from the ’50s. There was an Edison short in 1905 called /The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog/ which begins by introducing Mr. I. B. Dam and the various members of his family, culminating with the family dog.

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    mattro65  over 8 years ago

    And still relevant.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    well, dam

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    Dancin_fish  over 8 years ago

    I love this dam strip.

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    Sisyphos  over 8 years ago

    It is nice to see that Rat and Pig are eminently successful at one thing in Life; viz., angering Comic Strip Censor-man!

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    Kaputnik  over 8 years ago

    I wonder if Pastis actually meant “you anger me no end”. “You anger me to no end” also makes sense, but it’s not quite the same.And I remember saying “damn” being a big deal when I was a kid, but how many people care these days?

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    Linda Pearson  over 8 years ago

    Most people don’t even know the difference in spelling it.

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    Dapperdan61  Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Oh the dam language in this strip is soooooooooooo bad

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    Shimmery Mermaid  over 8 years ago

    #damnit

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    dutchs  over 8 years ago

    I wondered how Spanish would deal with this. Word for word, remarkably. “Dam” in Spanish is “represa,” but it also means ‘blockage" or “repression.” Evidently it can mean something like “constipated.” The censor says “With you, my anger has no limit.” It’s not a common enough insult to show up on most lists.

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    loner34  over 8 years ago

    I went down to the dam to get some dam water, But the dam people wouldn’t let me have any dam water,so I told the dam people to keep the dam water.

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    kzturtlegirl  over 8 years ago

    I live in the town that built Hoover Dam. I live this pun daily.

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    FlatheadFord  over 8 years ago

    My favorite pub was near a reservoir. It was the best bar by a dam site.

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    Nobody_Important  over 8 years ago

    Reminds me of an episode of Jeopardy years ago – one of the categories was “I don’t give a dam”. One lady kept saying "I don’t give a dam for (insert amount here) Alex. He finally commented "You are really enjoying saying that!

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    paullp Premium Member over 8 years ago

    In the original “Planet of the Apes,” the studio censor allowed Charlton Heston’s classic final line after it was pointed out that he was saying, “God damn you all to hell!” (wishing that God would punish those who destroyed human civilization) as opposed to “Goddamn you” (taking God’s name in vain or turning it into a curse that some might find offensive).

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    abbybookcase  over 8 years ago

    there were times when pogo went “too far” and papers would refuse to run the comic. walt kelly had “bunny” strips to replace the censored ones on these occasions.

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    rgcviper  over 8 years ago

    Ha—good one. I’m a counselor at a kids’ camp every summer, and since the zip-line goes over the dam, we in my activity area (a different one) call it—you guessed it—the dam zip-line. This has also progressed into returning to that dam place, getting a dam sandwich for lunch, and being dam straight on remarks. (I could go on, but I’ll stop here.)

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    hariseldon59  over 8 years ago

    Dam it, he’s a pig, not a hydrological engineer!

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    LuvThemPluggers  over 8 years ago

    If it’s California, the environmental impact fees will keep pig in court for YEARS!

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    mcsaddle  over 8 years ago

    Damn, not another Damn, Dam joke!

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    glowing-steak32  about 8 years ago

    Those dam dirty apes!

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    Gavmaster17  about 7 years ago

    What did the beaver say when he stubbed his toe? …Dam!

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    SomeOtherGocomicsGuy  over 6 years ago

    damit!

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    SomeOtherGocomicsGuy  over 6 years ago

    HEY! NO PERIOD IN THE FIRST SPEECH BUBBLE! I WILL WHOOP YOUR DAM BEHIND MON

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    DragonNerd  over 3 years ago

    River floods Dam it!

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    alantain  about 1 year ago

    What did the fish say when he hit a wall? Dam! (Yes, I realize it’s an old joke)

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