Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 22, 2016
Transcript:
Zebra: Did you go to college? Larry: Yeah. Me graduate Stanfurd Uneeversity wid degree een math. Zebra: I find that hard to believe. Larry: Is true. Me an aluminum. Zebra: It would be a lot more convincing if you knew the word 'alumni". Larry: Hey...me math major, not English major.
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
Croc is also a fellow at the Hoover Institute.
cdgar almost 8 years ago
Is true Crock, you’re a bloomin’ idiot.
Sherlock Watson almost 8 years ago
“Curses! Foiled again!”
cupertino jay almost 8 years ago
“Stanfurd Uneeversity” !?
heey, stephan, you mispelled Uneeversity.
railwayman001 almost 8 years ago
Really, Stephan? I have a strange feeling that this strip may be politically motivated, considering how you went to California at Berkeley and Stanford is conservative-leaning.
Rumball almost 8 years ago
Another qualified presidential candidate appears.
meg_grif almost 8 years ago
I think Zebra needs to learn the word “alumnus”. “Alumni” is plural.
Proginoskes almost 8 years ago
@ rumball. No; he says that he got a degree. He’s too intellectual for the “Alt-Right”.
dadoctah almost 8 years ago
If he was an English major, he would have said “Me an aluminium”.
blunebottle almost 8 years ago
Gotcha there, Zeeba!
rwjames almost 8 years ago
Also, if he were an English major, he would likely know ‘alumnus’ is Latin.
juicebruce almost 8 years ago
Croc Power ! Thought he went to “What’s A Matter U”……..Zebra neighbor must remember Crocs speak Croc not English :-)
John Falstaff almost 8 years ago
Stanfurd? I would have guessed Larry was a fellow graduate of an SEC school. :-)
Ginger Retiree almost 8 years ago
Like I’ve always said, just because you went to college doesn’t mean you’re smart.
Kaputnik almost 8 years ago
Actually, maybe “Stanfurd” graduates are aluminums. Aluminumi? Illuminati? It’s a giant croc conspiracy.
Anyway, if he’s an aluminum, does that mean his favorite music is light metal?
whiteheron almost 8 years ago
But Larry ate the sheepskin.
Kaputnik almost 8 years ago
He was studying math, but he ate π.
hariseldon59 almost 8 years ago
If that’s Larry, then he’s definitely lying. We know that he took all the money his dad gave him for tuition at Stanford and used it to buy beer.http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2012/09/07
mortaur almost 8 years ago
I are a graduate; to (not in English).
Radish the wordsmith almost 8 years ago
Ask Larry what two plus two equals.
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
LOL
HowardBrazee almost 8 years ago
Whenever I see a bumper sticker saying X-University Alumni, I laugh a bit. Maybe there are alumni of that college in the car, but more likely it meant “alumnus” or “alumna”. When advertising one’s education, one wants to be smarter than the zebra here.
OGWhatahunk almost 8 years ago
pugmahone12 almost 8 years ago
thank you
ZBicyclist Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Alumnum is a neutered alumnus.
hooglah almost 8 years ago
Maybe that’s where Clinton learned to lie so well…….
RonaldDad Premium Member almost 8 years ago
If it would be more convincing if he knew the word “alumnus.”
Spiny Norman Premium Member almost 8 years ago
CROCS!!!!
Alan Steenhouwer almost 8 years ago
That last bit is the mantra of all us math majors.
bigcatbusiness almost 8 years ago
So the to are just talking like nothing. No attacks or threats…
Steve Dutch almost 8 years ago
Croc is really showing his mettle here. When another croc dies from some idiotic scheme, does he barium?C’mon, 38 of you and nobody thought of that?
Michael Ritter almost 8 years ago
Go Bears! (see, someone gets the message)
grampianlothian almost 8 years ago
always good to see the crocs are still around
Bitter Scribe almost 8 years ago
Pastis is a Cal-Berkeley grad, so naturally he would make the dumbest character in the strip a Stanford aluminum.
Number Three almost 8 years ago
He’s telling you lies, Zebra. He actually graduated from the University of Duh.
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asianwoof almost 8 years ago
Went to Wharton for bizness schul afterward.
amaryllis2 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
@DaDoctah: you mean “if he were an English major,” or, “if he had been an English major.” You would only say “if I/he/she was” when referring to a specific moment in time. Otherwise, you use the subjunctive. (Guess what my major was?)
rowena28 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Even more convincing if he knew the word “alumnus”.
rgcviper almost 8 years ago
As I always say, all I know about math is that 2 + 2 = 22. What more do you need in life?