Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 29, 2016

I wonder if Bob’s inability to speak coherently is due to what Rat did to him couple of days ago?

She later initiated a lawsuit, which was the subject of a documentary called Touched by an Angel.

Been hanging out with Pig, Neighbor Bob?

It seems that only the humans get the “neighbor” title in this strip. You never hear Bob saying “neighbor Goat” or “neighbor Pig”. Isn’t neighborosity reciprocal?

If Bob said devils, he would mean the Arizona State University Sun Devils (whose men’s basketball team used to have my cousin Kenneth Crandall).

She’s chiseling chewing gum off the stands, but it sounds so much better the way Bob said it.

He really needs to be more specific. A plain answer like that and I would have probably thought the same.

Did the Angels move to L.A.?

At least this malapropism was with Goat rather than with panicky Pig! Of course, no one would be surprised to hear that a Neighbor Bob had lost his wife in PBS….

The difference is the Los Angeles Angels are actually real.

They were eager to hire her because she told them that she could work Anaheim they need her.

That’s sort of a weird reason for Goat to come over. “I thought I’d stop by and see how your wife is doing.” Wouldn’t “Hey, how are you? How’s the wife?” make a lot more sense.

A friend had an office job answering phones. When the boss was on vacation in England, she told callers he was out of the country and when he’d be back. Once she phrased it this way, “I’m sorry. Mr. Jones has gone to the United Kingdom….” Before she could get any farther, she heard this shocked response, “Oh, I’m so sorry! If I had known I would have sent flowers!”

I go out of my way to say stuff like that to see the looks on people’s faces. English is so open to misinterpretation.

Do they want to wear his red shoes?

“Quick! Circle the wagons, the Redskin’s got her!”

Ran into this when I tried to tell someone I put one of the neighborhood feral cats to sleep. She was all “awww!” until I managed to get it across that the cat watched me for ten minutes on a stationary bike before realizing I wasn’t going to do anything different, and dozed off.

I was away for the weekend, so I just read yesterday’s strip. I’m curious about stuff like this, so is the number of comments in that strip a record breaker for PBS.

Yep. You do!

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his wife is angelic. does she have a sister?

There is one and only one baseball team in Los Angeles and Vin Scully is Their Voice.

How does anyone else deal with the advertising that flies out from the left and covers up half the strip? You can click on the little print “Close Ad” at the right upper corner – but it is getting so annoying that I may quit reading the comics here! I close it and click on the next comic and the ad flies out again!

She’d be better off dead. . .