Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 20, 2016

Rat, leave Stefan alone; he’s got a kid in college and you know how much college costs.

Yeah, just TRY saying that three times fast!

Steph seems stymied.

Stephan’s got lots of SERIOUS problems. Excuse me, I need to go get my brain de-loused after this stinker.

No! He does NOT have anything better to do, but it’s okay.

Rat shouldn’t ask so many questions.

good one today.

@legaleagle48TRY saying that three times fast!-I can’t even read it three times fast.

This feels so unseemly.

No, I don’t have anything better to do than read this.

He’s just an alliterate fool.

Oh, hey….Zebra made an appearance for once.

I slit the sheet. The sheet I slit. And on the slitted sheet, I sit. – Steve Martin – (Navin) The Jerk

This is really bad. Hope Pastis has other job skills. I deleted Pearls form my favorites list

Paging Sally… Could someone check the seashore?

LOVE THESE!!

Uh no. snerk

Well, it looks like a good sweater and Pig likes it… so it’s the esteemed steamed-seamed stream seamstress seemed stressed

No, nothing better. I must go onI can’t go onBut I must go onNo, I can’t go on

I must go on

I can’t go on

But I

That’s two excellent puns in a row. Outstanding! Stephan hasn’t lost his touch.

Bravo!

Rather seamy.

Anything better to do? Seems not.

It’s like a car wreck …

Sorry rat, but it appears Steph has pun fever!

No Pastis doesn’t and please keep doing it :)

These word-play strips are fun. The problem is they’re happening too often and getting played out. You can see it coming from the first panel.

Do it maybe once every two weeks or so; that will keep it fresh. As it is now, it just seems like Pastis has run out of ideas.

ugh time for me to pull the plug on this strip, nothing but S.S.D.D. anymore…

Or he can’t help himself.

Pastis does this comic, because it’s the best he can do. Kinda makes one wonder how bad he is at other things!

Easy there, Sailor! Our boy Pastis works hard at what he does. He’s found his niche, and he’s scratching it for all he’s worth!

Yes, he has better things to do. No, he’s not going to do them.

get your own copy of Pastis’s next book Not So Classic Tongue Twisters.

This is enough to give somebody a lisp!

xxx

Great, back to terrible puns after only a few days ago giving us what has sadly become the rare good pun for the strip.

Let’s take Cartoon-Boy out, under a bridge somewhere isolated, and see if he floats with a steam-powered sewing machine tied around his ankles!This wordplay madness may be incurable!

Be careful Pastis, you’ll upset the troll again.

I think Pastis’ style can be characterized as ‘Stream of Pun-sciousness’. If that offends anyone, I am proud of myself.

Try, 76 shy soldiers. Or Unique New York.

Laughing right out loud!! Thanks Stephen!

Patsis pasted paltry prosed on the paper, whether properly or improperly, pasting people with paltry poetry

Say that 3 times fast.