Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 15, 2016

One can really get ticked off talking to Pig.

Pig sure has one small, small brain. Maybe the size of a mustard seed… then again, maybe no brain at all

The term “flea market” comes from the idea that people sell their old clothes there. Along with the old fleas in the clothes. So pig isn’t far wrong.

“Please say “black market” around Pig or we’ll all be in trouble.” I think you meant to say, “Please DON’T say “black market” around Pig or we’ll all be in trouble.”

Pug doesn’t go out much, does he? Many have mentioned the black market, but what about the mini market? What does he think it’s sold there?

I’ve always wondered about stuff like that…..

like…. how come my bird seed won’t grow any robins?

So if you want a Super-man or Super-woman you go to a Super-market…..using Pig logic :-)

I like to go to yard sales and say “I’d like a yard of this, and a couple of yards of that”.

I like garage sales, the prices are great but the moving costs are vicious!

Come on Goat, it could be a market on Flower Street, or the lot that it’s held on could be owned by someone with the last name Flower.

Yup. The trained ones are reeeeaaaalllyyyy expensive.

Pastis, i’ll give ya this one….. this one was funny.

I was waiting for a punchline like “So how many types of flour are there in a flour market?”

And where do you buy farmers?

And “White Sales” and “Baby Sales”.

The artwork is stunning today

Car-boot sales – what about the rest of the car? Or do they sell wheel-clamps?

That’s why learning a second language is difficult

wonder what Pig thinks of market basket

Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where George thought they had fleas at a flea market.

Awful indeed, Pig. And they have the chutzpah to charge you for them.

I look for “Moving Sales” but can never find one. They keep moving…..

I used to shop at World Market, but I could never find an appropriate world within my price range.

How about those sales where the merchandise is “half off”?

Then there are “penny sales”…

…and the “red sales in the sunset”…!

And how about “dime stores”?

And “dollar stores”?

And “general stores”?

(And now you know…the REST of the “store-y”!)

I went to a moving sale once. I was touched.

I could use a garage and a yard.

“So the flea market must be an awful place”

Yes, Pig, it its.

Goat’s like “Nope”

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Right down there with the question, if germ fighters fight germs and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

I think Pig would really like the Free Market…

Give Pig a break, folks! He is thinking! He is using his brain as a Vulcan would, coming to a severely logical conclusion, though it happens to be wrong.

Pig needs our help, folks, not put-downs!

Reminds me of a previous “Pearls” where Pig asks Pigita about the meaning of a lawbreaker, and when told a lawbreaker breaks the law, he assumes his windbreaker breaks wind.

Pig sounds like my mother — dumber than a bag of hammers!

Well, where ELSE are you gonna buy your fleas?

So does the Sunday Market sell Ice Cream Sundaes?

Farmers market, black market….