Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 17, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  over 5 years ago

    That Czech bounced.

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    Kveldulf  over 5 years ago

    How is a mid-European laboratory like the US government?

    It’s a system of Czechs and balances.

    (A co-worker in a lab told me that one about forty years ago.)

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    Kveldulf  over 5 years ago

    If you are still out there, Jim K., David S. says hello.

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    ale313  over 5 years ago

    Pun=death

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    juncarlo  over 5 years ago

    Pastis is the George Clowny of cartoonists.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 5 years ago

    Does the waitstaff (and manager) of the restaurant ALWAYS do that to their diners who aren’t Rat and Pig?

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    DennisinSeattle  over 5 years ago

    Oh, Pastis….

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    B UTTONS  over 5 years ago

    Next we’re gonna find Pastis Russian to have Rat conduct the decennial census Pole

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    Johnny Q Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Did you know that the Czechs added the blue triangle to their flag to distinguish it from the Polish flag?

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    Arianne  over 5 years ago

    Careful, you guys!

    Don’t laugh so hard European!

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    Kaputnik  over 5 years ago

    Actually, I heard that a reader sent a letter with the idea for this gag to Stephan Pastis. That’s right, the Czech was in the mail.

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    Bilan  over 5 years ago

    He really doesn’t need to czech. It’s just that he’s hungary, so he’s going to finnish off a danish first.

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    tudza Premium Member over 5 years ago

    They threw the guy out for that. A bounced Czech.

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    GreenIrishEyes  over 5 years ago

    The Prague-nosis is that today’s strip will elicit many groans.

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    Otto Knowbetter  over 5 years ago

    A Czechoslovakian midget came to my house and said he was hiding from the police and asked if I could cache a small Czech.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Hah! I wouldn’t touch puns like this with a 10-foot Pole.

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    Differentname  over 5 years ago

    I want to leave, but I must Romania

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago

    He looks like a blank Czech.

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    Plumbob Wilson  over 5 years ago

    There’s an abortion clinic in Prague called “Canceled Czechs”.

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    Breadboard  over 5 years ago

    Well done to all comments ! ……. Croc Power !

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    sdl1510  over 5 years ago

    He could be your Czech Mate!

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    ezekialrage777  over 5 years ago

    Fine joke? So Rat approves? This may be a first!

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    1504jarvis  over 5 years ago

    Evidently Rat and Pig were russian to leave the restaurant.

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    Zebrastripes  over 5 years ago

    Good one!

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    PaulHeroux  over 5 years ago

    Can we look forward to pole dancing in a future strip?

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    Masterskrain  over 5 years ago

    Pastis better Czech the balance in his joke account…I think he’s overdrawn.

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Good thing Guard Duck wasn’t their server. There’d have been problems if they asked him for the bill.

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    Display  over 5 years ago

    Are they only considered pure bred nationals if they have XY chromosomes? So the Czech is in the male, right? (And to make up for that horrid pun here’s a list of amazing Czechs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Czechs

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 5 years ago

    AND then there’s the chess player from Prague who doesn’t like to be Czech-mated!

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    Reader  over 5 years ago

    That guy works like a Slav.

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    chris_o42  over 5 years ago

    That joke should be a cancelled Czech!

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    jvn  over 5 years ago

    I just want him to Finnish already.

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    jonesbeltone  over 5 years ago

    The baseball bat, please Rat!

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    tripwire45  over 5 years ago

    Bad Stephan. Bad.

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    Stocky One  over 5 years ago

    This reminds me of a story about a Czechoslovakian man who was attacked by bears. A hunter and a tracker were assigned to track and find the bear or bears that had killed and eaten the man’s body. When they located the bears, the hunter – without hesitation – shot the larger of the two bears, letting the smaller one go. When the tracker asked him why he did that, the hunter responded, “Don’t you know? The Czech is always in the male!”

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    Gent  over 5 years ago

    Pastis must’ve got one heck of a pun Czechlist.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  over 5 years ago

    I have a Polish friend who’s a sound engineer.

    I have a Czech one, too, a Czech one, too.

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    enigmamz  over 5 years ago

    And all the Slovaks wonder “Why can’t we be funny, too?”

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    JohnHarry Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Pastis: This one is too easy, it got the huddled masses excited with a real cheap shot.

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    Tallguy  over 5 years ago

    Pastis, you’re my hero.

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    johndifool  over 5 years ago

    That particular gag has been lying in the back of his (stinky) sock drawer for 17 years…

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    gorgolo_chick  over 5 years ago

    I can’t believe Pastis didn’t go for big joke here. A little person from the Czech Republic needed to go into hiding, so he asked a friend if he could cache a small Czech.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 5 years ago

    Dear Mr. Pastis : “have you NO sense of decency, Sir?”

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    lkelly  over 5 years ago

    It must be correct because it has been Czeched

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    L L  over 5 years ago

    I wonder if that’s the fellow my friend knows. My friend is in a band and tells me they have a couple of different people that run the soundboard when they play out. The first guy is Russian, and he says they have a Chech one, too… a Chech, one, two….

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    Francis Lapeyre Premium Member over 5 years ago

    When Martina Navratilova defected, she went to the US Embassy, and asked:

    “Do you cache Czechs here?”

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    dwkiser28603  over 5 years ago

    Stephan,if you say the Czechs in the mail,I’m going track you down and open a ice cold pack of whoop ass just for the hell of it!

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    DCBakerEsq  over 5 years ago

    Pastis will be at NCSFest this weekend. Wonder if I’ll see him.

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    patrickab7  over 5 years ago

    …damn it, Pastis…

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    WCraft Premium Member over 5 years ago

    What, no baseball bat for this one, Rat?

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    Free the pigs!  over 5 years ago

    He has been waiting since the moment he had that joke in his head.duh(]

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    ChessPirate  over 5 years ago

    Review the hockey player from Prague’s vicious hit – Check Czech check…

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    HighPeaks  over 5 years ago

    What’s next for this strip? An appearance by the short-fingered Bulgarian?

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    phredturner  over 5 years ago

    Nope

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    syzygy47  over 5 years ago

    Ah, Pearls, I always have to Czech it out!

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    Bookworm  over 5 years ago

    I’m waving the white flag, which I will run up a Pole. And then Czech who salutes.

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    gbars70  over 5 years ago

    This sinks to a new low level of lameness (as do all of the Czech comments). So where’s your bat, rat?

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    Obi-Haiv  over 5 years ago

    Wouldn’t have touched that pun with a ten-foot Pole.

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    hariseldon59  over 5 years ago

    At least it’s not as bad as this one.

    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2006/10/07

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    skipper1992  over 5 years ago

    Popular comment during the 1991 hockey season in Rhode Island:

    “That check was dirtier than one from the credit union.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_banking_crisis

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    hekko Premium Member over 5 years ago

    That Czech is fake. I live in Prague and I’ve never seen anyone dressed like that.

    Anyway, thank you, Stephan, for bringing our small nation up so smoothly. We do like to make ourselves look more important time to time.

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    Snoots  over 5 years ago

    Bwahahahaha….

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    RetFor  over 5 years ago

    I often pass by a check cashing place. I was tempted to go in and ask if they also cash hungarians, but it was late at night when I passed by and was afraid they would think it was a setup to put them off guard to rob them.

    (Why are these places open 24 hours anyway? Is there really that many people cashing checks at 3 in the morning? )

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    Concretionist  over 5 years ago

    Pastis appears to have had a czechered career as a punster.

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    poopsypoo Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Oh Pastis, you are the man!!

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    Sisyphos  over 5 years ago

    Cartoon-Boy, the Greek Geek! EU humor….

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    MJAbernathy Premium Member over 5 years ago

    That is a good one!

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    jmwe29  over 5 years ago

    One word… bravo.

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    WilliamRichmond  over 5 years ago

    Don’t forget to endorse it….

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    gmu328  over 5 years ago

    a two for one!

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    tony_n_jen2003  almost 5 years ago

    The Czechs have been known to toss people out of windows.

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