Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 20, 2019

And there go the levees (the Jewish neighborhoods).

That’s from the Marx Brothers “The Cocoanuts.”

Louisiana bureaucrats would need to keep a levee head as the water dribble through the mouth of the delta and devalue their constituents’ homes underwater.

Pig needs to learn Louisiana geography first before he should learn Louisiana government.

I hope this isn’t prophetic… parish the thought!

When the levee breaks, they say Oh, dam!

Might flood anytime, suggest you bayou a boat…

You know you are from Louisiana if…

- You don’t realize until high school what a “county” is.

- Every so often, you have waterfront property.

- You worry about a deceased family member returning in spring floods.

- You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.

- You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana.

Yeah, I’m from Louisiana.

Don’t worry, Pig. If there’s flood in Parish, they can climb the Eiffel Tower and save themselves!

What is the joke here?

Parish the thought!

Fun fact: Even if the Mississippi isn’t flooding, those counties: still parishes.

Don’t get the “joke” – this is more American than I can fathom.

…" Perish " is a word I use to describe!

Louisiana – half of it’s under water and the other half is under indictment.

Good answer. It would take far to long to explain it to pig and he probably still wouldn’t understand….

Goat all you had to say was that a county is called a parish in Louisiana. One must use the KISS principal with Pig ;-)

What happens? “De Mudbugs git ya”

How did the priest in Louisiana fix the walls of his church?

With plaster of Parish!

If I keep reading this strip, I’m going to get appundicidis.

Factoid Time: the Louisiana & Mississippi (state) border is defined by the course of said river-at the time of the appropriate treaties and such. But the course of the river has changed so much over the decades that the border often differs greatly from the current course.

Mr. Pastis might want to reach deeper into his box o’ puns.

New Orleans has “Parish” districts.

Caprine pedantry, porcine obtuseness, chaos.

I’m only surprised that there’s not a fifth panel showing a group of angry Cajuns beating the hell out of Stephan for that one (I lived in Baton Rouge for a year, and believe me, I KNOW from the Cajun temperament!).

I bet the “Florida Parishes” in Louisiana really confuse him.

These jokes are all going to expire soon. Yes, they’re parishable.

Next conversation with Pig and Goat: “I want to go to Alaska and ride a donkey between the counties.”

“Boroughs.”

“No, I only need one.”

GROAN…!!! lol

They don’t subtile beneath the waters?

Oh, ma cher!

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

I was in my car listening to the Katrina coverage. They kept saying things like “St. Johns Parish is completely under water.” I kept thinking “Why are they making such a big deal about this one Church?”

Very nice!

Parish the thought!

I agree with the goat. NM!

That’ll do pig.That’ll do ;)

Hey Stephan maybe its time for some Croc story lines. I like pig, rat and goat but they seem to be most of what you are drawing are lately.

Oh, Pig, you po’ boy.

Yes, some things are different in LA.

Hahahahaha…oh,wait, Parishe the thought

They would be delta really bad hand.

Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou.

Digging a little deep, there, Stephan, but still one of my favorite strips!

Speaking as a “parish” resident……I LOVE this one (and SIGH for accuracy in some cases)

Reminds me, my bananas are getting over ripe.

Humor is parishable, it would seem.

Parishoners? Parish the thought!

Puns. One of the lowest forms of humor, but still clever.

Drove my Chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry.

An internal pun is just as infernal as an external pun. Your orientation is of no concern. Or, as the saying goes, parish/perish the thought!

“…drove my Chevy to the levy, but, the levy was dry…”

i spent 6 months in Baton Rouge. I’m glad it didn’t parish then.

Parish the thought.

I think pigs mind is smaller than goats nostril

lel