Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 05, 2016

Best way to deal with temptation — give into it.

Goat and Peter obviously walked into that one in the third panel.

It’s Amore.

According to Google, Pi Kappa Gamma is a sorority.

Come on, Goat, you’re smart enough to figure it out.

The mind is cruel when it comes to food.

If there were a fifth panel to the strip, we’d see Rat with his baseball bat berating Stephan. In this case, much deserved.

Well played Stephan :-)

How many fraternity members does it take to change a lightbulb?

11. One to hold the bulb, and ten to drink beer until the room begins to spin.

Credit where due. I usually find the puns here labored and silly. This one is funny, and the fact that the two meanings of the sound alike terms both function correctly, but in contradiction, creates the structural elegance of two realities in tension. Humor always consists of the mind having to leap from the expected, or obvious, to the surprising. Laughter is the physical hiccup that accompanies the frisson of readjustment.

Forget circular, make it pentangular.

groan ( but funny)

I hate you, Pastis.

I dislike Pi.

And also Pie.

xxx

Old joke:

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A man in a restaurant orders a pizza, and the waiter asks him if he wants it cut into eight or twelve slices. “Oh, eight, please,” says the man, “I couldn’t possibly eat twelve.”

When I hear pie, I normally think of something eaten for dessert. But then I don’t normally refer to a pizza as a “pie” (though I know others do).

Goat, you should have learned your lesson by now.

We can forgive Pete, because he’s new to the strip (and expendable; I don’t expect to see him again for a long time, if ever).

Somebody get poor Pig a pizza, STAT!

The only guy in a sorority sounds great.