Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 15, 2016

How about breaking his hands?

Or we could just rock him to sleep — with a real rock.

Later, Dick was chuckling about the ragged clothing worn by a private teacher who was on a seesaw. This became known as the teeter-totter tutor tatter titter.

mind if I join in the punching spree, Rat?

Wouldn’t a mallet be more effective? It works for Mario.

Looks like they’re fixing for a battle in Seattle.

No toucha da ToonBoy! You gonna get erased, rubbed out, capiche?

Later, hater.

Dick is expanding his potato empire worldwidefrom his base in Georgia, he already runs several large Dick’s Tater ships.

Stephan you did it again !……….Must be from drinking beer with Larry and Bob Croc……………….

We live not too far from Decatur, Ga. There no Decatur Potato Dictator there.

I think Pastis is punch drunk from lack of sleep. Or, maybe too many cups of coffee.

When I saw Pastis in the strip, knew it was pun time

potayto potahto

omg…….

Excellent! glad to see you’re back on track. The puns have been a little weak lately, but this one is a lot better. Keep ’em coming.

more crocs, please

Is a dictator a -- with a stuck on it?

I’m a Decaturite in Georgia, and the only crops we have are vegetable gardens in the back of our metropolitan homes. Dick’s garden must be pretty prolific.

We need a common-tater.

I figured this one out before I got to the punchline.

Rat, stop being such a big dick…tator.

Say that 3 times fast! lol

We need Pastis in a sound-proof booth.

Puns like this do not come naturally

Totally pathetice. Not funny. At all. And from such a talented cartoonist. What a waste of talent…

This one made me laugh. Then again, i always did like a good dick joke.

That “pun” or play on words, isn’t even grammatically correct. I’d call that reaching too far for something that isn’t even funny. My diagnosis is Stephen is displaying the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Perhaps he could get into a drug effectiveness study and restore some of his previous flashes of brilliance.

Boooooooooooooooooo…

So sad! Cartoon-Boy is now usurping his characters and actually delivering the (painful) punchline himself!Yes, punch line. Take him out back and tune him up, guys!I gotta go eat some potato chips in retaliation…

Stephan: Did you know Walter Cronkite was just a common tater?

Me too, me too. Can I wear some brass knuckles to punch him with? Better yet, can we punch the folks who want constant punning, bringing down the quality of the puns in the strip?

I have a better idea…Actually no I don’t.xxx

Is he also a debater?

He is in my mind. This one might only be chortle worthy but is still brings me up.

There is a spudly caricature of Mussolini in John R. Neill’s 1941 “The Scalawagons of Oz”, rejoicing in the name of “Dick Tater”.

This one felt very hard to parse, and I’m not getting the usual joy from it. My brain goes Dick’s -Tator Decatur Dictator- I like it a little better when I put “Decatur’s” at the beginning of the phrase.

(Maybe it was just the spelling of “tator” that was messing me up. Thanks, @libp68, for mentioning it.)

It’s an old local joke that Decatur is pronounced “dick hater.” I’ll just leave it at that.