Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 30, 2022

Dr. Loch Ness.

I wonder if the nurse Rosemary has time for this?

The name of the nursery is mrs. Robinson.

Here’s to you Mrs. Robinson

Pig actually wanted to drop off his liver to be examined. That may sound impossible, but he knows 50 ways to leave your liver.

The Sound of Silence is interrupted by Stephan being thrown off the Bridge Over Troubled Waters

I was expecting the Doc Ness Monster.

The Sound of Silence is better, as done by the band Disturbed. Check it out if you haven’t heard it – and don’t be put off by the band’s name – at least for this song. You can find it on YouTube.

That’s pretty mild as Pastis’s horrible puns go. I hardly felt any gastric distress at all.

Haven’t had one ot these for a while.

Good one!

Back in 1969 that was my high school graduation class song. Thanks for memory Pastis!

Dr. Ness is untouchable.

I didn’t see that coming. Good one.

This one deserves a cricket bat rather than the baseball bat!

Why don’t you Garfunkle yourself.

Mr. Pastis, Paul Simon’s lawyer on line one.

I can always tell when there’s going to be a pun-chline: some odd wording or name in the first panel. Nowadays I just skip from there right to the next-to-last panel to save myself the trip

Shouldn’t Pig go to a vet?

If he coul find li’l guard duck, he could do “hello duckness, my old friend..”

LMAO! ☺️

I LOVE Stephan’s punny strips. This one is particularly clever.

Finally song lyrics that I recognize!

By Simon and *Groan*funkel? Now I’m Disturbed.

Was anyone else thinking of a joke about Hugh and Ness if Hugh’s last name started with a P

Can I sue this comic strip for giving me an earworm?

Thank you for the Sunday morning smile!!!!!

We need to sink that yellow submarine…

Pastis, you’re a genius.

“Dunk rye for me, Arch and Tina” has been surpassed!

Stephan Pastis, I do enjoy your plays on words. I see them coming, but I try not to guess the punch line; it makes them even funnier (or stupider, depending). In any case, thanks.

Just don’t ask him where the words of the prophets are written.

I like the simpler puns better. The long complex ones leave me going back and finding all the pieces….

Ya know, Simon and Garfunkel just put a hit out on you.

Yay for a Sunday pun strip!

I thought it was going to be about the Scottish monster. I’m disappointed.

“Plastics!”

Stephen Pastis’s puns are fantastic. And I hate puns. Not his.

And I bet most of you sang that line in your head. :-)

Tis also my best friend, and Dr. Eliot has the gentlest finger.

remember it’s @ before # except after $

Art Garfunkel had a college roommate, Sandy Greenburg, who went blind while at college. Art became Sandy’s eyes, helping him adjust to his new lifestyle. Out of sympathy, Art started referring to himself as “Darkness” and Sandy would often greet him by saying “Hello Darkness, my old friend.” This later became the inspiration for the hit song.

https://rockandrollgarage.com/art-garfunkel-blind-friend-who-inspired-sound-of-silence-tells-his-story/

I worked as engineer at a radio station many years ago, Every Saturday night, we would shut down for maintenance. I used to play Sound of Silence just before the shut down. Nobody ever noticed.

This warranted a ponding with the bat.

I always loved that song……

One of you’re best yet Pastis!

Nostalgia wrapped in a pun. Nice.

Those old friends sat on their park bench like bookends.

Excellent

Hello darkness my old friend, soon you’ll start at 5pm…

I Love it!

This was great! I literally laughed out loud.

Tee hee hee…that made me giggle. : )

listen to the cover by Pentatonix an acapella group

I love this one.

G R O A N — LOLOL

This wasn’t too bad. As long as Simon and Garfunkel don’t come after Pastis.

I knew something like this was coming. The dialog was too specific!

The bat, Rat! The bat!

For all our sakes, beat this irresistible urge to create roundabout puns out of Cartoon-Boy!

If I’d wanted Simon and Garfunkel, I’d have linked to YouTube. https://tinyurl.com/p99wav8

I knew one was coming, but couldn’t put it together. Good show, Mr. Pastis.

Ten bucks says Pastis won’t be … Feelin’ Groovy … after the baseball bat comes out in panel 7.

I, too, have missed the Sunday pun strips. Well done, sir.

Well, at least it wasn’t about Pigs’ Hugh Ness.

My local weekly always includes an instance of “Pearls Before Swine.” I never paid much attention to it, but I absolutely loved this particular one, because I didn’t Get It immediately. After I got it, I had to send it around to a relative in my age group and have since told the joke to numerous persons, some of whom laughed out loud.

I knew a pun was coming as soon as I read the third panel.