Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 10, 2017

It also means the other thing in British vernacular.

Maybe he should also explain what that white thing and the stick in his hand are.

Please don’t anybody tell pig what their wake-up call is.

Bird watching takes on a whole new meaning in Britain,the last time I was there I saw a double-breasted lap-sitter.

And a hairy chested nut scratcher.

Why “Family Newspaper”?

Pig acts like Rat in the last panel !

Boy, that really rubbered Pig the wrong way.

I was mad at my boss and I knew his boss was a big time Christian. I asked my boss if he knew what a cubit was as in Noah’s Ark. He said no, quizzically. I showed him, it is from the elbow to the TIP OF YOUR MIDDLE FINGER!!! I got away with it. Pays to read that Bible.

I’ve never been to England,

But I kinda like the Beatles

Conversely, I have a Brit friend who was shocked – shocked! – to hear an ad on our telly for a product called Little Bugger. :)

No ‘fanny packs’ in England – fanny is a rude word.

We had a lot of fun telling a visiting French fellow that he needed to get some toe rubbers to protect his shoes from the snow.

It must be an old fashioned rural Canada word as well; when I moved from the sticks to Toronto in the sixties, at school I asked another kid to borrow his rubber and got mega laughs from the others – I didn’t understand (I didn’t know the “dirty” definition.)

LMAO!

Pearls is a family strip. A Family Guy type of strip that is

How in the actual hell did you get this past the censors?

Blimey, I’d fancy a fag right now.

So there’s no such thing as a morning-after condom??

Difference between a light bulb and a pregnant woman?

You can unscrew a light bulb.

When I was a kid (in the US, I suppose I should make that clear), galoshes were called rubbers. I wonder how many adults were suppressing smiles when telling kids to put on their rubbers before they went out.

Maybe Paul should have asked for a Pink Pearl®.

For a Brit, he doesn’t seem to have an accent.

Skating on thin ice there, Cartoon Boy!

Two countries divided by a common language.

Was Pig deputized by the Comic Strip Censor? If so, where’s his top hat?

Is that the same guy who got a flat? (Pig thought he meant a flat tyre) but a “Flat” is an apartment.

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I believe his name is Johnny.

Pig must have had too much coffee this morning! Or maybe living with Rat is rubbing (oops) off on him and he’s become a Violent Thug, fit for nothing but bacon?

Apparently Paul the writer needed to rub one out.

Just wait until Pigita asks him for a pearl necklace.

I once told someone I needed a pair of rubbers. She couldn’t stop laughing.