Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 13, 2024

Is Rat being a wiener?

Yep, that’s Frank Sinatra.

Lol!

Rat was a member of the “Rat Pack”?

I was going to say that youngsters wouldn’t understand it. But then I had to explain it to my wife! Oh well! Everyone won’t understand, but Stephan…he did it his way!

No, but you can be Rat with me.

Pig’s doing breakfast his way.

Pig is making a pig out of himself.

… you be Frank … I’ll be Harry … Do you feel lucky, punk,” … meet my sidekick Magnum

Pig must have Hobbit in his background.

I liked singing that song at Karaoke. Back when I could still sing.

That’s nice Pig. Eats more. The plumpier the yummier. Mmmm..!

Rat can be Frank. And Pig can become a Frankfurter.

Pig is a Hobbit?

that’s life

Just like Frank, Rat did it “His Way”!

Regrets," Rat has a few, but then again too few to mention"!

Start spreading the news…

No surname, no lawsuits from the estate. Nice.

Tony Bennett’s Fly Me To The Moon was far better than Frank Sinatra’s.

“I’m having breakfast My Way”

Hate to admit it, but Pastis made me laugh out loud.

Isn’t he dead? ah, Frank, not Pig…

“Pig, can I be Frank with you? If you’d rather, I’ll be Earnest.”

How strange. I heard a version this same joke yesterday, listening to an Old Time Radio Show.

Jack Benny: “What’s bothering you, Dennis?”

Dennis Day: “I’m the stupidest one in the cast.”

Jack Benny: “Oh. You’re Frank.”

Dennis Day: “I wish I was.”

Frank left the leg-breaking to other guys.

Pigs are so gluttonous.

Out of character for Rat to ask if he can be Frank. Usually he just blurts out any insulting remark that comes to mind

Why won’t Rat sing?

Frank… Frank… I don’t know enough pop culture to know who sung that.

OMG! Pig’s last remark cracked me up!

Many Philippine bars had to remove My Way from the karaoke list because EVERYONE sang it, time after time, all night long.

I would imagine that if you are too young to know who Frank is, you might have a problem with this funny. And also if you are too young to know what ‘the funnies’ are.

Frank didn’t break legs.

He had friends who did that (and if that didn’t convince you, they’d bury you in the desert). Which how he had a career (sure wasn’t his singing or acting…..).

But credit where credit is due; from early on he hired his musicians based on talent, not race – and refused to play any place that wouldn’t let the whole band stay there.

LOL!

don’t you play with Rat ‘cause you’re playing with fire

Given Rat’s drinking, he’s qualified to impersonate a guy who often had to be carried to the plane after an appearance.

Got his attention it would seem……

Rat now wants porkshops… Would be fun to see Rat eat porkshops with Pig next to him. :D

Shirley, they jest.

Those pancakes look delicious.

Or he could play the guitar solo on Zoot Allures

“Well, I was thinking of having regular breakfast sausages with my pancakes, but maybe a frank would do.”

Fly Me to the Moon: how to turn the Circle of 5ths into a million-seller.

Godfrey: May I be frank?Molly: Is that your name?Godfrey: No, my name is Godfrey.Molly: All right, be frank.(My Man Godfrey—1936)

Thinking about pancakes this morning. This probably puts it over the top.

‘Fly Me to the Moon’ always reminds me of WKRP in Cincinnati. Jennifer Marlowe’s doorbell played that song.

I wouldn’t know what that song sounded like if I hadn’t seen Space Cowboys.

Great, now I have an ear worm.

Pig, never try being a lounge singer, if ya know what’s good for you! Capisce?

Hah!

I’m sure Rat can manage an inept off key Billie Holiday imitation.

Eating “Second Breakfast”…..is Pig a Hobbit?

Stephan, can’t decide if your brain intrigues me or just flat out scares me. LOLOL

Rat has that in common with Sinatra.

Frank?

“That’s DOCTOR Sinatra,you little Bimbo!”

TRUE STORY—-

When Sinatra’s credit was cut off at the Sands hotel in Las Vegas, he got into a losing fistfight with a casino exec named Cohen and had his front teeth rearranged.

The joke flew all over America that “Sinatra should have known better than to fi ght a Jew in the desert!”