Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 03, 2019

This strip is no pleasure cruise.

When I heard “peons” and “British”, I was expecting a Euro-“peons” joke, but I guess Brexit’s affecting everyone.

another bites the dust

And another one bites the dust…

And since that’s a British company Cartoon Boy, you can expect a visit from Queen…

Well done, Mr. Pastis. Another beautifully crafted, brutal pun.

Do it again, rat.

Is that Bohemian Razzberry jam?

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Best one ever. I couldn’t figure it out before Pig.

Rat? Did you just swat swat swat with a baseball bat? Who is going to draw you now?

Think is funny when two countries speaking the same Language don’t understand what the other says : this happen even here , but we are all Italians .

The “peon” pun recalls a famous one from the history of USA / North Korean tensions. In January of 1968 North Korea seized a US spy ship, the Pueblo. They ultimately kept it and its 80+ crew for eleven months. During this time they tortured the men trying to force them to sign confessions (or make recorded ones) of illegal hostile acts.

The skipper finally agreed to a recorded confession but threw in an insulting pun.

“We intruded into the territorial waters of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and committed hostile acts,” skipper Lloyd Bucher finally declared. He did so after being told that if he failed to confess, his crew members would be executed, one by one.

But Bucher also managed to insult the unsuspecting North Koreans by declaring, “my fervent desire to paean the Korean People’s Army, Navy and their government,” pronouncing paean “pee on.” When they looked up “paean” in their Korean / English dictionaries, they were pleased that it meant “an expression of high praise.”

The audio was made public before the North Koreans figured out they’d been duped. When they did, beatings were resumed worse than before.

Of course there’s more to the story. Hey, that’s what the internet’s for.

We will, we will rock you!

“Put a bat against his head, swung my shoulders, now he’s dead…”

Pastis, the Queen of puns.

Time to “John Wick” Rat … Croc Power !

But he’s just a poor boy from a poor family.

Rat doesn’t look at all like Freddie Mercury.

Now someone translate “scatamoosh”.

Give that rat a medal.

Are they making Jammie Dodgers??

First good laugh of today.

Love the puns, this is the best ever!!

Best wordplay ever !!!!

I see a little silhouetto of a rat…

Brilliant!

Rat did the “BAMdango”.

I think this is the first of Pastis’s pun strips I actually enjoyed. I think it was the last panel that sealed it. All the previous pun strips (that I can recall) stopped at the penultimate panel.

I had to actually sing that to get it.

Picking up a rolled-up newspaper: Bad Pun, Bad Pun, Bad Bad Pun.

The author must have worked on this one for a while. Love it.

Pig’s and Rat’s resumes must run upwards of 16 or 17 pages by now.

Mr. Pastis let me go…

Stephan? Are you okay? STEPHANNNNNNNNNnnn……=~\

Brilliant

Pastis gets pasteis.

Not taking bathroom breaks will result in a few bad mistakes.

Have you ever seen anyone work so hard at coming up with a pun so bad?

You know by the first panel we’re headed for a pun. After that, it’s like watching a train wreck. You can’t help yourself, you should look away, but …

Best of the puns!!!! Thanks!!!

that song is ruined for life for me now…

Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Lots of puns and song related digs in this stream, so all I can say is, “Goodby everybody, I’ve got to go”.

I admire the work Stephan put in to this awful pun. I’ll bet he went through Queen’s whole songbook.

You can always smell the setup for these puns, even if you don’t know where it’s going exactly.

In future, Pastis should follow this advice. To avoid concussions, he never keeps the same address.

Remind me to not buy that brand of jam.

Queen…..

Hmm, Mercury poisoning…

Oy.

Awesome!!!

Okay, this is brilliant. Took me a moment to figure it out. About 2.5 seconds of my life. Ah well, who wants to live forever?

Rat just gave Pastis a “Bohemian Rap-sody”!

I enjoyed this one (for a change) :-)

But if you don’t go to the loo, what will you pee on?

What’s in this jam?

Perhaps not entirely unconnected, this Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

https://www.gocomics.com/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal/2019/03/02?ct=v&cti=649237

Using a baseball bat for the punchline of a British themed Pb4S? That’s just not cricket!

super good!

Clap. Clap. Clap. That was pretty darned OK.

Words cannot express the love in my heart for you, Mr. P.

If he’d waited twenty years, this would have been posted in ’39.

Really enjoyed this one!

I looked at the first two panels, and couldn’t decipher where it was going. All I thought of was Pearl Jam.

I wonder, was Creator Pastis counting on Bohemian Rhapsody winning the Oscar™? So what pun would result from A Star Is Born? Something about Baby Gaga being rather insincere perhaps??

Nothing really matters …

Took a minute to figure this one out. Alas, Pastis, I will miss you.

BEST ONE YET !!!

Let’s see Pastis try to do the Fandango now!

No shame. Pastis has no shame.

The pun is the lowest form of humor. Pastis’ strips are heavily weighted to this nadir of wit. Today is another of his fat-bottomed Pearls.

…Stephan? Did you do this one thinking " Bohemian Rap. " was gonna clean up at the Oscars? Couldn’t think of a." Green Book " joke?

The puns just keep on comin’!

The intellect of Mr. Pastis is staggering. To be able to twist the English language so is a tad frightening . . .

Having JUST seen Bohemian Rhapsody last night…. I truly laughed out loud! love it!

Most comics amuse me but when you laugh out loud you know it’s funny. This one is funny.

Now that was funny!!

Put my bat against his head. Swung my slugger, now he’s dead!!

You can always tell when there is a pun coming up!

that is a good one !!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

THIS is one of the reasons I love this comic.

Puns don’t kill people, people kill people

All that was needed was for the Jam company to be called the world.

That was a long way to go.

Who wants to live forever?

Awesome ! Lol

Hahahaha! Rock On Pastis.

DAMN IT, STEPHAN.

Hail Pastis….. the master of puns (bad as they may be).

OK. I [face-palmed] on this one at first. But the more I kept reading it, along with the comments, the more I laughed. Well done, Pastis.

And just think—he gets paid to write/draw stuff like this …

I was expecting a trickle down economics joke; management and peons…

Gods, I could tell it was going to be one of Toon Boy’s puns as I started to read it – the horror was that I couldn’t look away!

I still say that “Ferret’s Elf” was his life masterpiece.

LOL I love the punny ones! (Also, that song is now stuck in my head.)

British company? So are they working for the Queen?

(Looks around for Rat…) I’ll see myself out.

Marvelous!!!

Hooray for Rat! He and his trusty bat are the champions! We are the jam peons!

And another Cartoon-Boy bites the dust. And another….

Cannot post images here but if you google “Hugleikur Dagsson she’s a killer queen” then you will get an cartoon from this twisted artist’s imagination.

HAHAHA, Dude, This is one of your funniest panels ever. Long Live Queen.

Pastis should have used chimps instead of Pig but chimps have become bad for everything, including politics, it seems.

No jury in the world would convict you, Rat. That’s justifiable homicide, right there…

but did you ride your bicycle?

Kill me now so fantastic

nice try

I shall never be able to hear this song in the same way, ever again! Thanks so much, Pastis.

You are the only cartoonist I have ever had a fantasy of hanging out with! Your mastery of puns puts me in awe and I am known as the worst punster in my area…….. If you are ever in denver I owe you a steak dinner

No, ‘European’, not ’you’re a peon’. Well for now, anyway…

we are the champions, my friend… and we’ll keep on fighting ’till the end…

One could say stephans puns leave my body aching all the time