Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 25, 2022

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Ca Va sans dire.

WA!

If we drew this conversation out, would we end up with a picture of something?

GA! TS Rat!

Does anyone have some KY Jelly?

WA?

HI!

Rat forgot his Louisville Slugger.

Shades of Perry Como!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztfOSyCCFM

Rat will NE your GA to make you go WA, and stop you from being a PA

Wy?

t(han)x…

State what you really mean!

Ok Mo !

AK! …OH MI GA!!

Hang on, isn’t this strip about how terrible people on social media are?

Makes ME IL.

Did the diner charge sales TX.

Is this an old strip? I have this memory of trying to find all of the states in a conversation but I don’t know if it wasPBS or something else.

AK!!

What would you like to drink? Co, CA. Co. La.

Just keep it simple.

MO couldn’t make it to the strip today? Was she IL?

Well LA ti da.

This strip really make a state mint.

LOL! good one!

This has been done before, in a Sunday strip.

Mass. Murder (too timely? Yet another damned outrage !)

Sure, state the obvious.

DC – Don’t Care.

CUTE :D

I got gas at WaWa yesterday.

Oh

Caca.

Wy?

WY?

At least abbreviations are easier to spell.

MI, MI, MI. (Sigh.)

NJ AZ IO. AK!

It’s more coherent than the drivel in some other strips.

…oldie but goodie.

Maryland, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Ohio, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Maine, Oregon. I remember when he hid, like, 20 state abbreviations in a Sunday strip a while ago. I found them all!

GA-AK

I see a bat in Rat’s hand….

I’m ON to the North.

CO….

I remember parts of the State song, “What did Delaware, boys, what did Delaware? She wore her New Jersey boys.” (I’ll stop with just one piece.)

It’s the same joke only sixty years later.

Okay, I was wrong, I can’t do just one, “How did Florida (Flora die) boys, how did Florida? She died in Missouri (misery).” Thankfully it was a time of innocence so there’s no mention of Idaho.

If Rat hits him with an AZ, his last word will be AK. WY not get IN on the joke, MS?

GA! MA KS ME IL.

Wi?

“Delaware New Jersey?”

“Idaho, Alaska…”

Wa?!? ID VA-ND MO!

My friend Cal demands you mention him.

If you refuse,the end is NY.

Stephan should include Country codes also.

he should try element symbols NO?

Mo’.

i li in mi

WI?

Nous savons, oui!

It’s Rat, so the answer will likely involve Arkansas or Alaska.

OH!

Is there a MD in the house?

The Oregon in this case is Rat takes a baseball bat to your head.

Ak!

In one of the few examples of America’s gracious acceptance of the obviously right thing to do instead of just bullying its way into dominance, the USPS eventually changed its initial code for Nebraska from “NB” to “NE” to avoid confusion with Canada’s New Brunswick.

For those not familiar with Canadian provincial and territorial abbreviations, they are AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, ON, PE, QC (formerly PQ), SK, NU, NT, and YT. American territorial abbreviations are AS, FM, GU, MH, MP, PW, PR, and VI.

Making clear the distinction between “abbreviations” and “postal codes” I’d say Ill-advised, Cartoon-Boy!

Rat; the bat, quickly!

GA AK!

I’ve had fantasies of USA West Coast becoming South Canada (not so much the last couple of years)

but I know my dreams are just sh*t, as it would mean California would becomeCA, CA

This should narrow down the pun palette a bit.

IL use states IN Al my sentences, thank UToo

Mon aéroglisseur est plein d’anguilles.

Leave MI out of it