Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 04, 2016

Hard to follow that advice in Kansas.

Tomorrow will we see the Comic Strip Censor going into conniptions over the use of “Wise ass”?

What is the so-called wise donkey sitting on? A washtub?

Unfair advantage?

That Wise Ass was a real wise-ass.

Develop a perfect relationship with everybody. A perfect relationship requires maintaining a perfect distance at which all interaction is mutually beneficial.

There was a young maid of Madras,Who had a very fine ass.It was not as you think, Plump round and pink,Bur grey long-eared and eats grass!

The cent mark not necessarily being the pinnacle of the WQERTY keyboard, Lucy.

There are some people in this world who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that. – Tom Lehrer

Danny Donkey with a beard.

Bet the Censor loved you today, Cartoon-Boy!

One would assume that there are a series of hills here with Wise Ass on one and Jack, Dumb, Smart on the others.

That sounded more like a ‘Rat-ism’ than an ‘Ass-ism’

The more people I meet, the more I love my dog.

… you don’t know jack!(I once heard that wise ass say:)

#AbsenceMakesTheHeartGrowFonderor was it …#AbsintheMakesTheFartGrowStronger

I could do that.

My wife calls me an educated donkey

Finally Stephan you’ve done it. This is funny. I’ll print it and hang it on the fridge. Keep this character…….

Rat couldn’t get a word in ass wise

He’s stuck in eros and far from agape.

So, consider this - the words ‘wise’ and ‘smart’ are basically synonyms, with ‘dumb’ qualifying as an antonym for both. But ‘smart-ass’, ‘dumb-ass’, and ‘wise-ass’ are synonymous to each other.Kind of like the notion of driving on a parkway and parking on a driveway.

Is the “wise * on the hill” really just Danny Donkey with a beard? Their last line sounds like something Rat would say, and certainly like something Rat would have Danny Donkey say.

Day after dayAlone on a hillThe ass with the foolish grinIs keeping perfectly stillBut nobody wants to know himThey can see that he’s just a foolAnd he never gives an answerBut the ass on the hillSees the sun going downAnd the eyes in his headSee the world spinning round

Great one Stephan!!!!!

Pushing the envelope these days. I love it!

That wise ass seems very wise…

Rat with a bat could make the wise ass smart.

I agree. Pig. But when you take advice from an “ass” then that makes you an…?xxx

That hill. What exactly is that a pile of?

eeyore is a wise ass

I checked the comments in vain looking for an explanation of the last panel where the punch line and associated chuckle happens. Is “wise ass” the entire joke?

Deal with it, Pig! You asked the Wise Ass, and he gave you his opinion…..

I don’t see anything wrong with being called a smart ass.

Not that hard for me. I live on a mountain (though not that remote). Petty good advice there.

It’s Danny Donkey’s great grandpa

And thus, I was born.

Smart!

Funny, kind of not appropriate of school, WHO CARES!!!