Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 26, 2020

Nate is going to have a hard time getting that thing out.

WINNER

Kind of like indecent…….. now is that one word or two?

Next word: Asinine.

Aha! A-corny joke!

How does he know that the acorn is still in Nate?

A bomb in a bull. No bull.

We always knew Nate had it in him, and we were glad when he kept it that way. Phew!

It’s good he wasn’t asked about Uranus!

I’d better get away before Pig explains the next word – inmate.

Please, please! Somebody buy Pig a good dictionary. Then, sit him down and make him read it at least 15 minutes every day!

Pig has an in Nate ability!

Ok, yesterday Nate looked as if he had swallowed an acorn.

and ‘acorn’ is one corn…?

Truly spoken, Pig.

Your chowderheadedness?

Pig nice try but wrong answer …. no Quiz points :-( … Croc Power !

I wonder how he’s gonna get it out.

I was once challenged to use the word “dispenser” in a sentence. I quickly replied, "Susan Silverman and Hawk get angry whenever they hear anybody dis Spenser!’

Pig is about on par with most Texans

Leaves it be and it will turn into a log soon enough.

Now try urinate…

Poor PIG! Did he ever open a dictionary?

A joke I read as a child, which scandalized me…

Dad, is “Rotterdam” a bad word?

No, son. Why do you ask?

Because my teacher has poison ivy, and I hope it’ll Rotterdam arm off.

Must be the first question on Pig’s quiz. No ink smudges on his face yet.

Nate always was a squirelly character!

Sigh. Another phoned-in, no effort strip. Maybe it’s time to hang it up, if too busy with other projects?

My dog swallowed a 1,100 acorn

sounds closer to what you’d find in a redneck dictionary

um, that isn’t a definition

I’ll pass. Have fun everybody.

Better Nate than lever.

I used to have a sweater with 9 buttons but I lost one .Now I can only fascinate.

Well, you do have to chew them thoroughly, even with squirrel competition.

Give it time

Using it in a sentence isn’t the same as defining the word.

This strip was doe innate minutes.

Pig should take lessons from Skylar of “Shoe” comic strip

Oh, nuts

I perceive that Stephan did not do well on the SAT vocabulary section back in the day. Tsk.

I think Rat should be punching Pastis for that one.

I think you are in desperate need of a 10-year sabbatical break from cartooning.

He finds that it simply won’t pass/ and, at first, it’s just giving him gas/ but the problem grows serious/ and he’s damn near delirious/ when an oak tree grows out of his ass…

If ‘Pasty’ was my lawyer the insanity plea would sail right through.

Why is pig taking a vocab quiz

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